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Direct linkSingh, Gurmit – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report results from an evaluation of an online abstract mentoring programme to support early career and less experienced human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) researchers improve their chances of acceptance to International HIV/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Conferences. Design/methodology/approach: An…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Constructivism (Learning), Mentors, Informal Education
Download full textHall, Melvin E. – 1979
Program portrayal is one way of addressing the need for increased descriptive capability in evaluation research. Portrayal supplements traditional reporting by utilizing subjective, anecdotal, or impressionistic information, in an appropriately communicable form, to enrich the description of program transactions, settings, and outcomes. It is…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Evaluators, Program Descriptions
Peer reviewedAlred, Gerald J. – Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 2001
Examines technical communication programs outside the United States and comments on such features as their location in the university structure, links with public relations, the inclusion of internships or practicums, the balance of theory and practice, and typical course offerings. Lists a dozen major programs in seven countries. Concludes that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Internship Programs, Program Descriptions
Ligon, Glynn; Jackson, Elaine E. – 1989
The efforts of the Austin (Texas) Public School District to improve the readability and usefulness of technical reports are reviewed. Coincident with, or consequent to, a 1977 letter by W. E. Jones to the editor of an Austin paper (the "Austin American Statesman") complaining about excessively lengthy (500-page) evaluation reports, the…
Descriptors: Documentation, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Research, Evaluation Utilization
Peer reviewedGelinas, Ulric J., Jr.; Rama, D. V.; Skelton, Terrance M. – Technical Communication Quarterly, 1997
Profiles a writing-across-the-curriculum project in an accountancy program. Notes that the team's collaborative process produced three critical planning decisions: (1) establishing "fitness-for-use" for evaluating student communications; (2) selecting only those forms of communication used in accountancy; and (3) teaching only those…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Accounting, Case Studies, Communication Skills
New Educational Directions, Crawfordsville, IN. – 1979
To increase quality of Indiana State Board of Vocational and Technical Education (SBVTE) proposals and final reports, a study assessed the quality of sixty SBVTE proposals and final reports from fiscal year 1976-77 and provided SBVTE with quantified descriptions of them. The first review involved acquiring descriptive information about how the…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation, Program Proposals
