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How Technicians Can Lead Science Improvements in Any School: A Small-Scale Study in England
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Jones, Beth; Quinnell, Simon – School Science Review, 2015
This article describes how seven schools in England improved their science provision by focusing on the professional development of their science technicians. In September 2013, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation funded the National Science Learning Centre to lead a project connecting secondary schools with experienced senior science technicians…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Course Improvement Projects, Paraprofessional School Personnel, Staff Development
Findings: Sector-Leading and Innovative Practice in Advancing Equality and Diversity. Report to HEFCE by the Equality Challenge Unit
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Higher Education Funding Council for England, 2017
Following our "Call for evidence of sector-leading and innovative practice in advancing equality and diversity" (HEFCE Circular letter 16/2016), HEFCE commissioned the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) to report back on the range of equality and diversity practice undertaken across the higher education sector. Of 120 submissions received,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Opportunities, Equal Education, Student Diversity
Investigation of School-Based Staff Development Programs as a Means to Promote International Cooperation in Curriculum Improvement Through Teacher Training.
Thurber, John C. – 1978
This study explores the feasibility of utilizing school-focused staff development programs in promoting international cooperation through transferability and/or adaptation of relevant aspects of this type of inservice education by foreign countries. The objective of this presentation is to develop interest in ways in which teachers in various…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Improvement Programs, Inservice Teacher Education
Knowledge Transfer among Projects Using a Learn-Forget Model
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Tukel, Oya I.; Rom, Walter O.; Kremic, Tibor – Learning Organization, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of learning in a project-driven organization and demonstrate analytically how the learning, which takes place during the execution of successive projects, and the forgetting that takes place during the dormant time between the project executions, can impact performance and productivity in…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Program Effectiveness, Manufacturing, Memory
Alternative Rural School Improvement Models: Developmental and Cultural Perspectives.
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Sackney, L. E.; Wilson, K. A. – 1987
Although effective schools research has indicated the need for an added emphasis on increasing student achievement within a satisfying learning climate, the issue of how best to implement this research has been perplexing for both researchers and practitioners. Different approaches are being tried in two rural Saskatchewan school divisions. In…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Environment, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Evaluating Development Training Programs. (A Practical Manual for Trainers of Development Workers and Change Agents in the Third World).
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Bhola, H. S. – 1982
A manual for trainers of development workers and change agents in the third world provides guidelines for evaluation of development training programs. Chapters define evaluation, present a general model of development, and discuss evaluation in development training programs. Designing training systems for development workers and change agents,…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Development, Data Analysis, Data Collection