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Data Driven Program Planning for GIS Instruction
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Scarletto, Edith – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2013
This study used both focus groups (qualitative) and survey data (quantitative) to develop and expand an instruction program for GIS services. It examined the needs and preferences faculty and graduate students have for learning about GIS applications for teaching and research. While faculty preferred in person workshops and graduate students…
Descriptors: Evidence, Best Practices, Geographic Information Systems, Program Development
Conjoint Analysis: A Tool for Designing Degree Programs.
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Martin, John; Moore, Thomas E. – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 1993
Conjoint analysis, commonly used in product development, was used to determine the graduate education needs and program preferences of business administration graduates. Results suggest an accelerated and abbreviated Master's in Business Administration would be preferred to an master's degree, without detracting from existing programs or being…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Business Administration Education, College Curriculum, Educational Needs
Priorities for Experimentation and Development in Adult Basic Education. Vol. I of Planning for Innovation in Adult Basic Education. Center Research Report No. 2.
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Mezirow, Jack; Irish, Gladys – 1974
Researchers at Columbia University's Center for Adult Education, using a survey questionnaire delineating a comprehensive range of program areas and specific activities within each area, determined priorities for Adult Basic Education (ABE) Special Projects. The instrument sought the needs and preferences of those most directly involved in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Demonstration Programs, Educational Needs
Illiteracy in Figures. Literacy Lessons.
Nascimento, Geraldo – 1990
Global figures that reveal the magnitude of the problem of illiteracy in the world disguise great disparities. For example, most of the illiteracy in the world is in developing countries. Therefore, it is preferable, and more appropriate in terms of numerical importance, to concentrate the analysis of illiteracy on developing countries. Such…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Census Figures, Data Interpretation
Measurement of Affect and the Humanizing of Instruction. Part II, Instrument Development and Use. Final Report of the Interstate Educational Resource Service Center Affective Education Project.
Interstate Educational Resource Service Center, Salt Lake City, UT. – 1973
Development and use of instruments and procedures to measure affective aspects of educational programs are described. The document is part of a final report of a project to humanize education by helping schools identify affective priorities and measurement needs. The document is presented in three sections. Section I describes measures developed…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Cooperative Programs, Data Analysis, Educational Assessment
Proposals Relating to the Statistical Function of the U.S. Office of Education: A Report of the National Conference on the Office of Education Statistical Program. Bulletin, 1946, No. 2
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US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1946
This bulletin presents information relating to the national conference on the Office of Education statistical program which took place October 1-3, 1945. The material herein consists of the agenda of the conference, reports of the three study committees on (1) purpose and scope of the statistical program, (2) collection of data, and (3)…
Descriptors: Educational History, Government Role, Agency Role, School Statistics