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Alamprese, Judith A.; Limardo, Chrys – Office of Vocational and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2012
The "Policy to Performance Toolkit" is designed to provide state adult education staff and key stakeholders with guidance and tools to use in developing, implementing, and monitoring state policies and their associated practices that support an effective state adult basic education (ABE) to postsecondary education and training transition…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Transitional Programs, Postsecondary Education, State Policy
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Bicanich, Eleanor; Slivinski, Thomas; Kapes, Jerome T.; Hardwicke, Susan B. – T.H.E. Journal, 1997
Reports on a statewide pilot project which compared testing using paper-and-pencil and Internet-delivered test items. Participants were students from 14 Pennsylvania vocational-technical institutions. Describes the structured use, what teachers should know and insight from the project. Demonstrates that the Internet offers a viable cost-effective…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Individual Testing, Internet, Nontraditional Education
Robertson, William D.; And Others – 1984
An informal consortium was formed in 1983 by five postsecondary educational institutions and the educational television authority in British Columbia to cooperate in using audio teleconferencing for course delivery, and to conduct a pilot project between September 1983 and May 1984. The consortium members (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia…
Descriptors: Consortia, Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems, Distance Education
Gulledge, Earl N. – 1981
A project entitled the Health Education Consortium was initiated to develop an articulated nursing educational route that would meet the educational needs of all types of nursing personnel from nurses aides through and including nurses with master of science degrees. Included among the major activities of the project were the following:…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Articulation (Education), Curriculum Development, Educational Cooperation
Wentling, Tim L.; And Others – 1990
An evaluation was conducted to describe Tech Prep prototypes as they have been implemented in five sites in Indiana and to determine the effectiveness of the programs. Tech Prep is a curriculum initiative that: is performance based, provides students with skills necessary to gain employment or to pursue further education upon high school…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Basic Skills, Curriculum Development, Educational Improvement
Brown, DiAnn; Maiuri, Fran – 1995
This final report describes a pilot 3-year project in Alaska to include children with deaf-blindness in regular classrooms. The project established and supported two pilot sites for inclusion of students with deaf-blindness, one urban and one rural. As a result of the project, three out of four pilot site students moved from self-contained special…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Deaf Blind, Distance Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Michigan State Dept. of Education, Lansing. Adult Extended Learning Services. – 1988
In the Family Employability Development Plan (FEDP) process, a facilitator works with the family to help its members acquire the skills to develop their own plan for economic independence. The facilitator helps coordinate the interagency effort and helps the family become empowered to carry out its own plan. Carried out as a pilot project in 13…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Potential, Family Programs
Georgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. – 1995
This final report describes activities and accomplishments of Project EPIC (Effective Partner Interaction in the Community), a 3-year federally supported project in Georgia to facilitate the establishment and implementation of effective educational practices with students having deaf-blindness. The project was designed to expand students' present…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Skills, Community Based Instruction (Disabilities), Deaf Blind
Arthur, Patricia, Comp.; Budke, Wesley E., Comp. – 1980
This annual report contains resumes of research projects, exemplary and innovative projects, and curriculum development projects. Projects were administered by state departments of education through research coordinating units (RCUs) in fiscal year 1978 and funded under sections 131, 132, and 133 of the Vocational Education Act of 1963 as revised…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs, Developmental Programs