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Edwin Jose Perez – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Severe inequities for underrepresented student groups (URGs) in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine (STEMM) fields has remained a topic of national concern for several decades. Research has demonstrated the efficacy of STEMM intervention programs (SIPs) in addressing disparate STEMM outcomes. However, there is a dearth of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Medicine, Disproportionate Representation, College Students
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McCartney, Alison Rios Millett; Napoli Clements, Rhiannon Rio; Cahalan, Lauren; Johnson, Kai; Pace, Bethany – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2020
One often overlooked challenge of undergraduate research (UR) is access to information. Growing student diversity, including first-generation students, and increasing calls for a better-trained workforce suggest that higher education should be providing more support for UR. The authors propose that higher education needs cost-effective, impactful…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Interdisciplinary Approach, Peer Teaching
Edgecombe, Nikki; Cormier, Maria Scott; Bickerstaff, Susan; Barragan, Melissa – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2013
In this paper, the authors draw on empirical data from CCRC's Scaling Innovation project to examine trends in developmental education instructional reform and outline a framework for reform adoption and adaptation. The paper's findings are based on two qualitative data sources: a scan of developmental education reforms that involved changes to…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Evidence
Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2013
Making Connections was the Annie E. Casey Foundation's signature place-based, community-change initiative of the 2000s. It sought to build on previous work and launch an effort focused firmly on the framework of family strengthening. The Foundation started Making Connections in 22 places, focusing eventually on first 10, then seven sites. It…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Change Strategies, Program Development, Program Implementation
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Voorhees, Rhondie; Petkas, Steven N. – New Directions for Student Services, 2011
The Common Ground Multicultural Dialogue program in the Department of Resident Life at the University of Maryland is an innovative peer education program designed to teach skills for engagement through exploration of contemporary multicultural societal dilemmas. The Common Ground Dialogue Program was launched in 2000 to provide undergraduate…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Peer Teaching, Multicultural Education, Student Leadership
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Abels, Eileen G.; White, Marilyn Domas; Kim, Soojung – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2007
This article is a case study of the Virtual Business Information Center (VBIC), a collaborative effort since 1998 of the College of Information Studies, Robert H. Smith School of Business, and the University of Maryland Libraries. The case study traces its development, implementation, and evaluation and addresses collaboration among academic…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Academic Libraries, Business Administration Education, Web Sites
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Cuddapah, Jennifer L.; Masci, Frank J.; Smallwood, Jo Ellen; Holland, Jennifer – NASSP Bulletin, 2008
The development and implementation of a Professional Development School (PDS)--sponsored summer program for at-risk secondary students is described. Literature related to PDSs and summer programs is followed by a presentation of data findings and analysis. Attendance and grade point average data gathered on the 17 participating rising ninth…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Summer Programs, Grade Point Average, Grade 9
Holowenzak, Stephen P.; Forgione, Pascal D. – 1976
The Maryland Accountability Program (MAP), initiated in response to 1972 state legislation, has been planned and implemented to promote an understanding of the relationship among the quality of education, the characteristics of educational programs, the process of education and needed and available human and material resources, and, on the basis…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Finance
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Feinberg, Edward A.; And Others – Infants and Young Children, 1996
Principles of program evaluation and strategic planning are discussed and applied to a case example of the Anne Arundel County (Maryland) Infants and Toddlers Program. This program contended with issues of increased referrals and enrollment, evolution from a child-centered to a family-centered paradigm, and change to community-based provision and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Disabilities, Early Intervention
Maryland State Board for Community Colleges, Annapolis. – 1990
This fifth edition of the Maryland Community Colleges Instructional Program Manual was designed to be used in the development, submission, review, and approval of all new instructional programs in the Maryland community colleges. The first section provides a timetable for program proposals and program evaluations. The next sections contain…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Program Development, Program Evaluation
Nespoli, Lawrence A. – 1986
A series of projects were conducted in Maryland as part of an effort to develop a valid and reliable student database for planning, decision making, and Vocational Education Data System reporting; and a systematic and objective procedure to evaluate the quality of occupational programs in Maryland's community colleges. The projects had three…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Data Collection, Databases, Management Information Systems
Johnson, John L.; And Others – 1975
Three outside consultants were asked to evaluate the validity of current special education placement procedures and policies in the Montgomery County, Maryland Public Schools (MCPS) to determine their effect on minority students. Procedures for obtaining information included mailing questionnaires to 396 families and observing in-service staffing…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Disadvantaged Youth, Exceptional Child Research, Minority Groups
Maryland State Board for Community Colleges, Annapolis. – 1983
This revised manual presents a timetable, proposals and evaluation procedures, and information on the designation, discontinuance, and inactivation of instructional programs for Maryland community colleges. After the first section presents a timetable for the proposal and evaluation of new and existing instructional programs, information on…
Descriptors: College Planning, Community Colleges, Curriculum Design, Evaluation Methods
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. – 1978
The need for veterinarians and the capacity of the South for providing veterinary medical education are examined. Summarized are eight current veterinary medical education programs in the region and planned developments in education (in Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, and Arkansas). Projected are the effects of the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Career Opportunities, Demand Occupations, Educational Demand
Roberts, Jane M. E.; Woolf, Beth – 1984
This paper describes various kinds of inservice teacher education sponsored by the Maryland State Department of Education and explores the factors influencing impact on participants in terms of use of knowledge or skills presented. Data were collected by observation, interviews, and questionnaires. A cross-case synthesis of 10 individual case…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
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