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Direct linkReddell, Penny – Journal of Staff Development, 2004
A Texas district shows what can be done when school-based staff developers work with teachers dedicated to improvement--student achievement improves in just one year. The author points out the factors that helped make it work and offers tips for traps to avoid. (Contains 10 charts.)
Descriptors: Mentors, Tutor Training, Professional Development, Student Improvement
Clark, Sherri; Smith, Geoffrey Battle – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2004
Outbreak! is an online, interactive educational game that helps students and teachers learn and evaluate clinical microbiology skills. When the game was used in introductory microbiology laboratories, qualitative evaluation by students showed very positive responses and increased learning. Outbreak! allows students to design diagnostic tests and…
Descriptors: Microbiology, Laboratory Experiments, Educational Games, Diagnostic Tests
Download full textUS Department of Education, 2004
This report of the NAVE (National Assessment of Vocational Education) Independent Advisory Panel fulfills an important obligation under the 1998 Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act (Perkins III). Perkins III directed the Secretary of Education to complete an "independent evaluation and assessment of vocational and technical…
Descriptors: Technical Education, Program Effectiveness, Education Work Relationship, Research Reports
Bottoms, Gene; Cobbs, Mary – 2003
The 1996 "High Schools That Work" Assessment report contains positive and negative findings about the effectiveness of the high school advisement process in guiding career-bound students into challenging academic programs that will equip them for work and postsecondary study. The assessment of reading, mathematics and science performance was given…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Career Guidance, Education Work Relationship, Educational Counseling
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. – 1968
The participants in the Second Florida Seminar on Evaluation were divided into two principal groups: Technical Evaluation Information and Evaluation Models in Selected Areas. In the Technical Evaluation Information subgroups, technical material involved in the evaluation process was presented. A topical outline of this material is provided. The…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Educational Programs, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Olympus Research Corp., Salt Lake City, UT. – 1972
The major purposes of this evaluation were to: (1) assess the effectiveness of the Individual Referral (IR) program in providing training in broadening occupational choices and in making institutional training available to enrollees in areas where class-size projects are not feasible; (2) develop comparable data on such items as trainee…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Guidance Programs, Job Training, Labor Force Development
Puerto Rico State Council on Vocational, Technical and High Skills Education, Hato Rey. – 1987
A study evaluated vocational guidance services and guidance counselors in Puerto Rico. It included the guidance counselors in the Vocational and Technical Program and a representative sample of guidance counselors in all other programs in the Department of Public Education. Findings were made regarding guidance counselors and supervisors, students…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Counseling Services, Counselor Evaluation
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1982
This guide is written for counselors and guidance specialists as an awareness and strategy development program for the survival of school based guidance programs. A letter of survival hints, including the importance of political awareness, introduces the guide. A true/false quiz on what makes a difference in guidance programs points out areas of…
Descriptors: Career Education, Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Services, Counselors
McLaughlin, Betty L.; And Others – 1981
This guidance plan was prepared to assist counselors in establishing quality programs with an emphasis on work-related education and training and to serve as a model for developing competency-based and accountable programs at the local level. The first section defines guidance terms and presents an overview of basic premises for guidance program…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Competence, Counseling Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education
American Coll. Testing Program, Iowa City, IA. – 1976
This model describes how the guidance staff at a hypothetical high school communicated the effectiveness of the guidance program to students, parents, teachers, and administrators. A description of the high school is presented, and guidance services and personnel are described. A conceptual model responding to student needs is outlined along with…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Classification, Guidance Programs, High Schools
American Personnel and Guidance Association, Washington, DC. – 1968
The achievement of more adequate vocational guidance services in the nation's schools through the improvement of state supervisory service, was the major objective of the seminar. In additon to 72 state guidance supervisory staff members from 47 states, seminar participants and leadership personnel included 14 counselor educators, 12 state-level…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Conference Reports, Counselor Training, Followup Studies
Gustafson, Richard A. – 1977
A handbook titled "The Educator's Handbook for Secondary Career Guidance Programs", and designed to aid the educator-counselor in formulating and implementing a workable secondary school career guidance program, was field tested in four secondary school settings in order to assess the effectiveness of the model. The handbook contained…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Counselor Attitudes, Educational Research, Guidance Programs
US Department of Education, 2005
This, the first biennial report to Congress by the Director, as required under The Education Sciences Reform Act (ESRA), describes three goals that have guided the work of the Institute and provides an overview of progress through the end of 2004. It describes the major projects carried out within each center of the Institute over the past two…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Change, Organizational Objectives, Program Descriptions
Raices, Emanuel; Braestrup, Angelica Hollins – College Board Review, 1991
The Ventures in Education program, begun 10 years ago, includes honors-level curriculum, advanced placement courses, summer workshops, enrichment, a longer school day, and continued counseling and guidance. It has demonstrated that poor, disadvantaged high school students can learn to excel in demanding courses of study. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Advanced Placement, Counseling Services, Disadvantaged Youth
Missouri Univ., Columbia. – 1995
A study reported on progress in developing statewide norm-referenced evaluation scales for high and middle school students. Phase IV goals were to develop and try out a guidance curriculum results evaluation survey format for use by local school district personnel and to explore ways to analyze and use Missouri School Improvement data to…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Guidance, Competence, Competency Based Education
