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Deever, R. Merwin; Johnston, Lynn D. – 1977
This dissertation summary discusses a study to determine the instructional competencies required by teachers of mainstreaming educational programs for handicapped secondary students. It also sought to establish the preferred staff development strategies and to identify the appropriate educators to conduct the retraining activities. Questionnaires…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Handicapped Students, Mainstreaming, Questionnaires
Donnan, Peter, Ed. – Occasional Papers in Open and Distance Learning, 1997
The first paper in this issue, "Towards a Re-examination of Learning and Teaching at Charles Sturt University" (Perry Share, Mark Farrell, Erica Smith, Jenni Brackenreg, Lesley Ballantyne, Lisa Fawkes, Michelle Dean, Mark McFadden, and Judith Parker) is a major discussion paper by a Working Party of Academic Senate at Charles Sturt…
Descriptors: Change, Distance Education, Educational Change, Educational Development
Ogbu, John U. – 1978
This paper evaluates the Institute's training program, which was designed to help teachers and other educators make parent participation and community involvement in bilingual/bicultural education more effective. Focused on is the effectiveness of the anthropological techniques to which participants in the training program were introduced. The…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Involvement, Cultural Influences, Educational Anthropology
Roper, Susan Stavert; Hoffman, David E. – OSSC Bulletin, 1986
To overcome teacher isolation and help make teaching a more attractive profession, educators might consider a peer support system based on the Stanford Collegial Evaluation Program. This paper describes the program's background, functioning, barriers to successful implementation, and how to neutralize them. The Stanford program uses a peer…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Formative Evaluation, Participant Observation

Pelgrum, Willem J., Ed.; Plomp, Tjeerd, Ed. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1993
Six articles analyze 1989 data from the Computers in Education Study of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), a cross-national elementary and secondary education assessment. A seventh paper describes the rationale and procedures for construction of tests used in the study's second stage in 1992. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Comparative Analysis, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1982
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 16 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) teacher behavior patterns during episodes of reading instruction in grades 4, 5, and 6; (2) the influence of teachers' conceptual frameworks of reading on…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Black Dialects, Childrens Literature, Decision Making
Holland, Holly, Ed. – Middle Ground, 1995
These three 1995 newsletter issues explore concepts and problems relevant to middle-level education. The cover story for the spring issue examines new trends in educational assessment. Additional briefs in this issue discuss team teaching, school reform as a community-wide effort, and home-school collaboration. The cover article for the Fall issue…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Testing, Integrated Activities
Lewis, Karron G., Ed. – Journal of Staff, Program & Organization Development, 1995
This quarterly publication serves as a medium for the exchange of ideas regarding the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of professional development practices at two- and four-year colleges. The four issues in volume 12 feature the following articles: (1) "The Course Syllabus Reexamined," by James O. Hammons and Jackson R. Shock; (2)…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cooperative Learning, Cultural Awareness, Faculty Development
Miller, Edward, Ed. – Harvard Education Letter, 1995
This document is comprised of volume 11 of the Harvard Education Letter, published bimonthly and addressing current issues in elementary and secondary education. Articles in the volume's six issues are: (1) January-February--"The Old Model of Staff Development Survives in a World Where Everything Else Has Changed" (Miller), "Giving…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Abuse, Computer Uses in Education, Decision Making