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Nold, Ellen W. – 1979
The work of teaching faculty in the major disciplines how to teach writing often falls to the writing program administrator (WPA), and this paper explains one WPA's hypotheses, reasoning, and methods used in promoting writing in a college engineering department. Principles underlying the program related to the motivations of faculty and the…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Faculty Development, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Kellerman, Anne; MacDonald, Geraldine E. – 1973
A new approach to computer-assisted instruction (CAI) called Author Tutorial System (ATS) was field tested in a National Science Foundation-sponsored school consortium in New York State. ATS was designed as a package of authoring functions written in the APL interactive programing language to enable authors who are not experienced programers to…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Consortia, Curriculum Development, Higher Education
Fassler, Barbara – 1977
The English department at Central College (Pella, Iowa) has implemented a program that involves the entire faculty in the development of students' basic skills. The program's support system for students and faculty includes the following components: a skills laboratory staffed by a full-time skills coordinator and by trained student tutors…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Faculty, English Departments, Graduation Requirements
Bonsness, Joan – 1977
The Northwest Special Education (NWSE) program model was designed to identify and provide analysis of academic and behavioral characteristics of rural area learning disabled students to facilitate prescriptive planning to be carried out through tutorial activities. Formal assessment procedures were carried out by the consultant while informal…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Identification
Herrmann, Beth Ann – 1990
The primary purpose of the Student Literacy Corps Project is to: (1) improve the literacy skills of approximately 200 educationally disadvantaged children and increase the parents' involvement in their children's literacy development; (2) provide a tutoring experience for approximately 45 undergraduate students and a coaching experience for…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Literacy, Higher Education
Green Bay Joint School District 1, WI. – 1973
This compensatory education program serves approximately 792 disadvantaged children. Thirteen elementary school enrichment learning centers, two tenth grade tutoring programs, an area-wide remedial reading clinic, an instructional service center, and intensive teacher-parent inservice training will be the framework for enrichment experiences.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Compensatory Education
North Carolina Univ., Chapel Hill. – 1992
Twelve North Carolina colleges and universities received state funds to support 3-year pilot programs related to clinical teaching in teacher education. Descriptions of the 12 programs, collectively known as the Model Clinical Teaching Network, are given in this report. These pilot projects include one or more of the following features: use of…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Case Studies, College School Cooperation, Cooperating Teachers