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Thiagarajan, S.; And Others – NSPI Journal, 1970
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Feedback, Group Discussion, Group Instruction
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van den Berg, Ineke; Admiraal, Wilfried; Pilot, Albert – Studies in Higher Education, 2006
This study was aimed at finding effective ways of organising peer assessment of written assignments in the context of teaching history at university level. To discover features yielding optimal results, several peer assessment designs were developed, implemented in courses and their learning outcomes evaluated. Outcomes were defined in terms of…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Higher Education, Writing Assignments, History Instruction
Clegg, Ambrose; And Others – 1978
An action research model of program planning and inservice teacher education is presented. The model systematically includes three groups of participants--teachers and paraprofessionals, parents and members of the community, and university and administrative personnel, and is called the "triangulation" model. Inherent in the design is…
Descriptors: Action Research, College Role, Community Role, Decision Making
Randall, Robert S. – 1969
This Stufflebeam-Guba CIPP type model for the evaluation of innovations in education attempts to maximize the effectiveness of critical decisions through the timely reporting of relevant information in a useful form to appropirate levels of decision making. Evaluation is thus seen as the combination of effective decisions based on timely, relevant…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Innovation, Educational Strategies, Evaluation Needs
Kelly, J. Terence; Anandam, Kamala – 1979
This paper describes Miami-Dade Community College's (MDCC's) Academic Alert and Advisement System (AAAS), which uses a powerful and sophisticated computer system called Response System with Variable Prescriptions (RSVP) to provide students with information about their progress in a course midway through the term. The paper begins by outlining the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Advising, Academic Standards, Community Colleges
Maryvale Central School District, Cheektowaga, NY. – 1970
The significance of a planning-programing-budgeting system for educational use lies in its ability to improve educational planning and cost effectiveness. As part of the Western New York PPBS project, a model for implementing PPBS in districts of fewer than 25,000 students was developed and tested. The completed model consists of three components:…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Budgeting, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Objectives
Lewis, Wiley B. – 1970
Accompanying the growing concern for environmental control are expanding job opportunities and an ever-increasing demand for trained personnel to fill these jobs. Thus, vocational educators are confronted with the need to design and develop programs to train needed personnel. To do this in the most effective way, educators need to: (1) assess the…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs, Employment Opportunities
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McLinden, Mike; McCall, Steve; Hinton, Danielle; Weston, Annette; Douglas, Graeme – Open Learning, 2006
This article presents a summary of the results from phase 1 of a two-phase research project. Drawing on the principles of problem-based learning (PBL), the aims of phase 1 were to design, develop and evaluate a set of flexible online teaching resources for use within a virtual learning environment. Participants in the project (n = 10) were…
Descriptors: Internet, Educational Resources, Professional Development, Special Education Teachers
Flanagan, Kathleen R.; Trueblood, Cecil R. – 1983
School climate is defined, four instruments used to assess various dimensions of school climate are described, and implications of a school climate profile for developing an individualized staff development program in a rural school setting are discussed. Developed from the professional literature, the definition of school climate includes the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Prokof'yev, A. V. – 1966
The overall idea of programed learning plays an important role in the learning process, but it does not contain any sensational discoveries or unusual points. Importance resides in the perfection of the existing systems and methods of learning with the use of the achievements of modern science, and particularly of radio electronics and…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Autoinstructional Aids, Constructed Response, Educational Research
Semmel, Melvyn I.; Olson, Jerry – 1977
The document is a system documentation manual of the Computer-Assisted Teacher Training System (CATTS) developed by the Center for Innovation in Teaching the Handicapped (Indiana University). CATTS is characterized as a system capable of providing continuous, instantaneous, and/or delayed feedback of relevant teacher-student interaction data to a…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Classroom Observation Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs
Wonacott, Michael E. – 2002
Teaching is a very difficult field to master, and the challenges faced by beginning career and technical education (CTE) teachers are especially great. Teacher induction, which usually takes 5-6 years, is the total of all the teacher's experiences from the moment the first teaching contract is signed until the teacher is comfortably established as…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Continuing Education
Sadtono, Eugenius, Ed. – 1992
Selected papers from a 1992 seminar on innovations in language teacher education include: "Collaboration in Assessment: Empowering the Individual Course Member" (Leslie Dickinson); "An Approach to the Evaluation of ELT Preparation Programs" (Stephen J. Gaies); "Human Resources Development in the Management of English Language Programs: An…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Classroom Observation Techniques, Educational Change, Educational Objectives