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McWilliams, Andrew; Rosemond, Cherie; Roberts, Ellen; Calleson, Diane; Busby-Whitehead, Jan – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2008
The University of North Carolina Mobile Student Health Action Coalition (UNC MSHAC) at Chapel Hill, North Carolina is a voluntary service-learning program in which interdisciplinary teams of graduate level health professional students provide monthly home visits to isolated, community-dwelling elders with complex medical and social issues.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Program Evaluation, Home Visits, Learning Experience
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Heinonen, Jarna; Poikkijoki, Sari-Anne; Vento-Vierikko, Irma – Industry and Higher Education, 2007
Entrepreneurship is reaching new areas in which the concept of business is more or less unfamiliar and remote. This study focuses on a specific entrepreneurship education programme in the fields of chemistry, physics, information technology and bioinformatics, life sciences and medicine development. The aim is to gain a deeper understanding of the…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Program Descriptions, Case Studies, Participant Satisfaction
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Earl Martin Phalen; Tiffany M. Cooper – New Directions for Youth Development, 2007
Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL) is a national not-for-profit organization whose mission is to increase the educational achievements, self-esteem, and life opportunities of elementary school children living in low-income urban communities. BELL has been engaged in formal evaluation, internally and externally, for more than five years and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Program Evaluation, Program Improvement, Program Implementation
Courtney, Mark E.; Zinn, Andrew; Zielewski, Erica H.; Bess, Roseana J.; Malm, Karin E.; Stagner, Matthew; Pergamit, Michael – Administration for Children & Families, 2008
This report presents findings from a rigorous evaluation of the Early Start to Emancipation Preparation (ESTEP)-Tutoring Program in Los Angeles. ESTEP-Tutoring provides up to 50 hours of remedial one-on-one tutoring in reading and math to foster youths ages 14 to 15 who are one to three years behind grade level in either reading or math. The…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Mentors, Independent Living, Program Evaluation
Berends, Mark; Heilbrunn, Jodi; McKelvey, Christopher; Sullivan, Thomas – 1998
A private, nonprofit corporation, New American Schools (NAS) funds the development of designs aimed at transforming entire schools at the elementary and secondary levels. This report describes a large number of NAS sites in their early implementation stages. The report is the first in a series that monitors a longitudinal sample of schools…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Longitudinal Studies
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1987
This book is a compilation of drug education and drug abuse prevention materials collected by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) along with example of activities carried out by various countries. It opens with four introductory papers by separate authors: (1) "Prevention of Drug Dependence: A Utopian…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Drug Education, Foreign Countries, Prevention
Stile, Stephen W.; And Others – 1982
Teachers who have been trained to work with normal young children (early childhood certification) or with older disabled children (special education certification) are unprepared to assume the multiple responsibilities of the teacher of preschool disabled children. Prior to the 1979-1980 academic year, few (if any) formal on-going inservice (or…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Disabilities, Inservice Teacher Education, Models
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Seldin, Peter – Clearing House, 1975
Article described an innovative program that combined curriculum reform with inservice teacher training. (RK)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Inservice Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Descriptions
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Hoffman, Donald – Art Education, 1975
Article evaluated programs for the elderly and the need for their improvement based on research indicating that people over 65 have creative ability and interests previously misjudged. A program for the elderly developed at the University of South Carolina's Center for Arts and Humanities was described. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Teachers, Educational Opportunities, Older Adults
Peterson, Bob – Canadian Training Methods, 1975
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Foreign Countries, Graduate Study, Personnel Needs
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Rogers, Carl R.; McWhinney, Bonnie – Education, 1974
Article presented a long-range account of work which was done to stimulate self-directed change in the educational system operated by the Immaculate Heart Community, in Los Angeles and other towns. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Educational Objectives, Educational Practices
Burns, Mary Catherine – Momentum, 1975
Article described a program that successfully allowed for students' individual differences while stimulating them to learn mathematics. (RK)
Descriptors: Charts, Individual Differences, Mathematics Curriculum, Program Descriptions
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Mayer, Frederick R. – Educational Perspectives, 1974
Described a program which will develop degree programs for adult students in three overlapping phases, following the pattern of development of the external degree in the United States. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Needs, External Degree Programs, Learning Experience
Tompkins, John F.; Schnelker, Diane – 1986
This document presents findings of an evaluation of the Gifted and Talented (G/T) Program serving 860 elementary and secondary school students in the Des Moines (Iowa) Independent Community School District. The evaluation was based on a questionnaire approach designed to gather data from program participants and building coordinators. Comments…
Descriptors: Budgets, Elementary Education, Expenditures, Gifted
Dennis-Small, Lucretia; Washburn, Kerry – 1985
Reported are findings of an impact evaluation of the Family-Centered Home-Based Intervention Project for Protective Services Clients, a joint venture of the Texas Department of Human Services (DHS) Region 11 (Houston) and the DePelchin Children's Center. The project demonstrated a model of intensive intervention with families who had been referred…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Cost Effectiveness
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