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Direct linkAlbrecht, Paul A. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1984
The organization and procedures of universities make it tempting to try to avoid contemporary challenges to graduate education. Much of the malaise in current graduate education results from a focus on the decline in resources, in the availability of conventional careers for graduates, and in the availability of talented students. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Graduate Study, Higher Education
Pecora, Peter J., Ed.; Seelig, William R., Ed.; Zirps, Fotena A., Ed.; Davis, Sally M., Ed. – 1996
Based on the work of the National Council on Research in Child Welfare (NCRCW), this handbook is designed to help social service agency executives cope with changing times for child welfare agencies, strengthen traditional services to meet today's needs, and analyze and plan for the future. The manual aims to demystify quality improvement theory…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Child Welfare, Program Administration, Program Development
Download full textBlanco, Nestor H. – 1998
This paper discusses problems with the theoretical basis and conditions for implementing the quality insurance model for engineering programs. An analysis of a program of development and educational quality implemented in the Engineering Faculty of the National University of Lomas de Zamora in Argentina is presented. The minimum conditions are…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Jones, Charles O. – Adult Leadership, 1973
Author discusses guidelines on objectives, evaluation, and cooperative planning essential to good educational practice. (GB)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Educational Administration, Educational Planning
Peer reviewedBusiness Education Forum, 1971
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Annual Reports, Business Education, Career Education
VocEd, 1982
Excerpts of the NIE Vocational Education Study are presented. Areas covered include federal goals, distributing funds, special needs students, sex equity, improving planning, extending and improving programs, strengthening evaluations, and options for change. (CT)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Program Development
Peer reviewedRyan, Alan G.; Nay, Marshall A. – Canadian Journal of Education, 1980
A 5-stage method using an idealized model to identify roles of school system personnel and assess their level of implementation was developed to examine the roles of those school system employees who were or should have been involved in the innovative Curriculum Resources Information Bank (CRIB) project. (SB)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Models, Performance, Program Development
Peer reviewedMaddox, Kathryn H. – Action in Teacher Education, 1980
Efforts in West Virginia to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of teacher centers are described. (JD)
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Institutional Cooperation, Preservice Teacher Education, Program Development
Carey, Art – Community College Journalist, 1993
Examines ways in which college journalism instructors can promote their programs in times of shrinking budgets. Provides over 40 suggestions for increasing student participation in journalism programs, funding special projects, and promoting greater departmental visibility on the college campus. Includes a "Top Ten" list of promotional activities.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Journalism, Journalism Education, Program Development
Peer reviewedSchmid, Thomas J. – Teaching Sociology, 1989
Describes one department's experience with curriculum development through the formulation of a departmental mission statement reflecting the shared sociological goals of faculty and students. Discusses the process of achieving consensus, the actual mission statement, and the curricular and program implications of such a process. (KO)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Development, Goal Orientation, Higher Education
Cumming, Alister – TESL Canada Journal, 1988
The evaluation of second language programs is an educational task with profound potential for improving pedagogical practice. Evaluators who educate perform more than just a "service" function by helping people to learn, develop themselves, and refine their abilities to work more effectively. (CB)
Descriptors: Evaluation Utilization, Evaluators, Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation
Brown, Mark G. – Performance and Instruction, 1988
Discusses reasons for the lack of effectiveness of management development programs and suggests solutions for improvement. Topics discussed include analysis of good management skills; motivation theory; popular psychology models; self discovery tests; management fads; insufficient skills practice; conducting a needs analysis; and performance based…
Descriptors: Management Development, Models, Motivation, Needs Assessment
Johnson, Doug – Book Report, 2001
Discusses the steps to ensure that assessment leads to genuine improvement: (1) agreeing on goals based on recognized standards; (2) establishing yearly objectives that help meet those goals; (3) developing a formal method for reporting the attainment of those objectives; and (4) using the assessment of the program as a part of the media…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Libraries, Library Development
Daro, Deborah – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2009
Over the past 20 years, home visitation has emerged as the flagship program through which many states and communities are reaching out to new parents.The presence of bills to advance home visitation in Congress and in state and local legislatures, and the fact that several states and counties are moving forward with comprehensive plans and…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Home Visits, Infants, Quality Control
Longitudinal Faculty Study Groups: A Model for Developing Comprehensive Teacher Preparation Programs
Griffin, Leslie L.; Cummins, Cheryl J. – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2008
Teacher preparation programs nationwide struggle to meet rigorous national standards, particularly as they relate to the assessment standard of the National Council of Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). There are many issues which make decisions about program improvement complex, often confusing and frustrating faculty. These include the…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Theory Practice Relationship, National Standards, Program Development
