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Mmbwanga, Daniel M.; Matemba, Collins K.; Bota, Kennedy N. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The mentally challenged child (MC) can achieve a lot if the right environment and curriculum are designed for him/her. However, the realization of the desirable outcomes faces many challenges. The objective of the study was to examine institutional and personnel-related challenges facing education programs for the MC persons at Kaimosi Special…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Special Schools, Foreign Countries, Surveys
Nichols, Brian Allan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
As the accountability standards for schools throughout the nation become more pressing, the relationship between the school superintendent and the local school board has become even more critical to a school's success. A clearer picture of the desired competencies of school superintendents by local boards of education should assist both parties in…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Qualifications, Comparative Analysis
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Sanders, Piet F. – Psychometrika, 1992
Presents solutions for the problem of maximizing the generalizability coefficient under a budget constraint. Shows that the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality can be applied to derive optimal continuous solutions for the number of conditions of each facet. Illustrates the formal similarity between optimization problems in survey sampling and…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Cost Effectiveness, Equations (Mathematics), Error of Measurement