This article reviews teacher professional development norms as they are shifting toward collaborative practice. It is posed that passive and individual practices are inadequate to prepare teachers to integrate the academic skills that learners need for both workforce and college readiness. Promising practices in professional development are…

This article describes an Online Mentor Program (OMP) designed to support and facilitate mentorships among and between Florida Department of Health (FDOH) employees and USF College of Public Health students using a Web-based portal. The Florida Public Health Training Center (FPHTC) at the University of South Florida (USF) College of Public Health…

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of accountability on the quality of student motor responses during a 10-day badminton unit with female high school students enrolled in a required physical education class. Students in the control class participated in the same learning activities taught by the same teacher as the treatment…

This article argues that participative approaches, such as those found in enterprise or entrepreneurship education, allow several factors to influence learning activity. The "Mini-enterprise" (Young Enterprise) approach is one where students set up and run their own business during a school year. This article is based on the analysis of…

A leader's guide for the workshop on the overview of bilingual program evaluation is presented, accompanied by a participant's handbook and a workshop text. The evaluation overview workshop is the first of five 4-hour evaluation workshops designed to meet the basic information needs of teachers and administrators with little knowledge of…

The first part of the leader's guide for the workshop on bilingual program evaluation design is presented. The two-part guide is accompanied by a participant's handbook and a workshop text. The evaluation design workshop is the second of five 4-hour workshops designed to meet the basic information needs of teachers and administrators with little…

The second part of the leader's guide for the workshop on bilingual program evaluation design is presented. The two-part guide is accompanied by a participant's handbook and a workshop text. The evaluation design workshop is the second of five 4-hour workshops designed to meet the basic information needs of teachers, administrators, evaluators,…

A learning strategy system and a set of training procedures to facilitate the communication of this system to college-age students were developed. Students receiving this training exhibited significantly greater positive precourse-postcourse changes on comprehension/retention and self-report measures than did students in the control groups.…

Describes a career development project that addresses the special needs of disabled adults by: (1) developing a multimedia-based, self-directed career planning program; (2) providing a training program for 15 disabled adults working as paraprofessional career guidance technicians; and (3) establishing linkages with educational institutions and…

Intended to provide a framework and impetus for future investigations of video games, this paper summarizes activities investigating the instructional use of such games, observations by the authors, and a proposed classification scheme and a paradigm to assist in the preliminary selection of instructional video games. Nine references are listed.…

Evaluated the effectiveness of a combined behavioral-reflective parent-training program with high school seniors (N=24). Lectures, films, class discussions, role-playing exercises, and examinations were used to teach concepts of behavioral and reflective child rearing. Data analysis indicated that the parent-training course produced significant…