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Manuel B. Garcia – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
The global shortage of skilled programmers remains a persistent challenge. High dropout rates in introductory programming courses pose a significant obstacle to graduation. Previous studies highlighted learning difficulties in programming students, but their specific weaknesses remained unclear. This gap exists due to the predominant focus on the…
Descriptors: Programming, Introductory Courses, Computer Science Education, Mastery Learning
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Clements, Dan; Morgan, Kevin; Harris, Kerry – Sport, Education and Society, 2022
The subject of talent in sport continues to fascinate and intrigue as organisations seek to identify and deliver an effective talent development programme in an effort to ensure systemic success. In the quest to deliver an optimal national governing body talent development programme, this paper investigates the role that Appreciative Inquiry can…
Descriptors: Talent Development, Program Development, Team Sports, Inquiry
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Bantjes, Jason; Swartz, Leslie; Conchar, Lauren; Derman, Wayne – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2015
Adolescents with disabilities in developing countries frequently have limited access to sporting opportunities and comparatively little is known of their lived experiences and preferences. We set out to understand what a group of adolescents with cerebral palsy (CP) living in South Africa perceive to be important components of programmes developed…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Cerebral Palsy, Program Development, Disabilities
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Komives, Susan R.; Longerbeam, Susan D.; Mainella, Felicia; Osteen, Laura; Owen, Julie E.; Wagner, Wendy – Journal of Leadership Education, 2009
The leadership identity development (LID) grounded theory (Komives, Owen, Longerbeam, Mainella, & Osteen, 2005) and related LID model (Komives, Longerbeam, Owen, Mainella, & Osteen, 2006) present a framework for understanding how individual college students develop the social identity of being collaborative, relational leaders…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Grounded Theory, Self Concept, Models
Roberts, Jane M. E.; Kenney, Jane L. – 1984
The School Improvement Through Instructional Process (SITIP) Program, initiated in Maryland in 1980, was concerned with improving classroom and school activities through the application of process-product research on classroom and school effectiveness. All 24 local education agencies voluntarily implemented one or more of four research-based…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Mastery Learning
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1978
The validation of the competency based curriculum (CBC) of the District of Columbia Public Schools, prior to full scale implementation, is described. The CBC includes English, language arts, and science instruction in grades one through nine, and is based upon the demonstrated learning of specific behavioral objectives in the basic skills. The…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
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Chang, Chi-Cheng – Interactive Learning Environments, 2006
This study aims to develop and evaluate competency-based web learning material (CBWLM) for the college practicum Microprocessor Laboratory. After using the CBWLM for 8 weeks, this study investigates CBWL's learning effects and self-directed learning aptitudes (SDLAs) as well as exploring the influence of SDLA on learning effects based on the…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Mastery Learning, Competency Based Education, Program Development
Cox, J. Lamarr; Lane, Carolee – 1981
A Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) program for nontraditional adult learners was developed, implemented, and evaluated for the purpose of making recommendations as to the need for and nature of further related research. Proposed program settings were two classes of adult basic education students and one of prison inmates. A case study…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs
Cox, J. Lamarr; Lane, Carolee – 1981
A Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) program for nontraditional adult learners was developed, implemented, and evaluated. The study objective was to determine if further investigation of use of PSI was worthwhile. From a review of literature and practice of PSI and adult learning, conclusions were drawn regarding major factors to consider…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning