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California State Commission for Teacher Preparation and Licensing, Sacramento. – 1979
The Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study (BTES) newsletter presents news and an overview of the BTES project. Major articles recount the story of what happens when public school teachers and principals implement the BTES into their individual schools. (LH)
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Educational Research, Research Needs, Research Utilization
Download full textDonald, Janet G. – CCSHE Professional File, 1988
The improvement of instructional methods or the solutions of problems of an instructional nature requires information that is not usually part of the Canadian common experience and must be discovered by means of research. Types of fundamental and applied research are discussed, including action, developmental, evaluation, and diagnostic research.…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Foreign Countries, Instructional Improvement, Postsecondary Education
Peer reviewedLosak, John, Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1986
This collection of essays by current or former directors of institutional research represents the broad spectrum of size, function, and geography within institutional research in the two-year college. The volume contains: (1) "The Role of Institutional Research in Evaluation of Nontraditional Programs: College Preparatory Analysis at Miami-Dade…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Planning, Community Colleges, Decision Making
Research Exchange, 2001
These three newsletters focus on advances and challenges in disability research. The first issue focuses on the results of a survey that investigated how many consumers with disabilities had a computer available in their home and their Internet use. The study involved administrators of Independent Living Centers (ILC) and ILC consumers. Findings…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Adults, Children, Computers
IFG Policy Notes, 1982
This issue of "Policy Notes" examines some of the issues surrounding research dissemination, or the means by which policy-makers become aware of and assimilate research knowledge. The articles in this issue provide added perspectives to the findings of an Institute for Research on Educational Finance and Governance (IFG) survey, in three states,…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Needs, Information Scientists
Lewis, Merrilee, Ed.; Barr, Robert, Ed. – Community College Issues, 1988
In light of growing concern for the measurement of educational effectiveness, this paper advocates institutional research at the community college level in California's community colleges to answer crucial questions concerning students, programs, and communities and urges trustees and administrators to use research results to inform decision…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Administration, Community Colleges, Decision Making
Davis, Gary – Association for Institutional Research, 1981
Ways that higher education institutions can improve their compliance procedures in responding to external requests for reports and information are addressed. Institutional officers must first determine how the data will be used by the external agency. By questioning how the requested information will be used, a determination can be made of what…
Descriptors: Accountability, Compliance (Legal), Confidential Records, Cost Effectiveness
