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Teachers Learning: Targeting Inservice on Users' Needs.
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Cumming, Chris; And Others – Scottish Educational Review, 1985
Used 34 teachers in 3 schools to identify teacher inservice needs. Described means to translate aims into action in context of collaborative staff development model proposed by Scotland's National Committee for In-Service Training of Teachers. Proposed concept of professional staff development whereby responsibility for learning/changing lies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education, Models, Needs Assessment
Staff Development: Initiating a Comprehensive System.
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Roberts, Jane M. E.; Pellerzi, Joseph H. – 1984
A case study describes how a rural local education agency (Allegany County, Maryland) developed a comprehensive staff development system. It presents some contextual and theoretical background information, summarizes the problem as perceived by key actors, and then describes a series of activities resulting in the development of the comprehensive…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Education, Interprofessional Relationship
The Uses of Microcomputers in the Public Schools within the East Texas School Study Council.
Price, Charles Alden; Stephens, Ruth Ann – 1984
This description of microcomputer use in schools within the East Texas School Study Council (ETSSC), a professional organization of 80 school districts, is based on 279 responses (66%) to a survey of 422 elementary and secondary school principals. Topics addressed include hardware and software available for educational use, microcomputing…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Computer Literacy, Computer Software, Financial Support
Summary of Research in Extension. (A Compilation of Abstracts for 1980-1983).
Kittrell, David L., Comp.; Lee, Jasper S., Comp. – 1984
This summary describes 162 research projects dealing with extension education that were conducted between 1980 and 1983. The abstracts are organized into nine broad categories: administration, agriculture, accountability and evaluation, community resource development, 4-H and youth, home economics, international education, personnel and staff…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Education, Agricultural Education, Community Resources
Managing Information for Rural Development: Lessons from Eastern Africa. World Bank Staff Working Paper No. 379.
Deboeck, Guido; Kinsey, Bill – 1980
The study summarizes discussions and conclusions of the Regional Workshop on Monitoring and Evaluation of Rural Development Projects in East Africa (Nairobi, Kenya, April 1979), whose purpose was to share lessons learned from field experiences in managing information for rural development. An initial section summarizes information in papers…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Agents, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Priorities for Extension.
Hayward, J. A. – 1987
Agricultural extension is one component in an array including research, training, education, marketing, international trade, etc. which develop together to bring about growth, and sustained growth determines the priorities for extension. These priorities depend inevitably on the stage of development of a country or region, and on the current…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrative Principles, Agribusiness, Agricultural Education
Proceedings of the Midwest Research-to-Practice Conference in Adult and Continuing Education (3rd, DeKalb, Illinois, September 27-28, 1984).
Northern Illinois Univ., De Kalb. Coll. of Continuing Education. – 1984
These proceedings consist of 28 presentations. They include, in alphabetical order by author, "Data Collection Methods Used to Determine Training Needs of the Organization and the Adult Learner in Business and Industry" (Bart P. Beaudin), "Sex and the Split Brain: Does the Sex of the Mind Matter?" (Anne A. Bowbeer),…
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Agency Cooperation