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Council of Ontario Universities, Toronto. Committee on Operating Grants. – 1982
Information on operating grants for Ontario universities in 1983-84 is presented. Indicators of public support for universities in Ontario and other Canadian provinces are compared, and indicators of government support for various public expenditures within Ontario, including universities, are examined. Both interprovincial and intraprovincial…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance, Enrollment Trends
Porter, Kathleen – 1982
The New York State External High School Diploma Program is a competency-based assessment system serving adults who can demonstrate both basic and life skills. It represents an alternative to the General Educational Development (GED) program for busy, working adults--offering flexibility in time, location, and mode of assessment. Developed in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Education, Continuing Education
Nelson, Marie Wilson – 1981
A naturalistic-design study compared the practices of "writer-teachers" (expert practitioners) who employ methods rooted in experience with traditional "teacher writers." Eight subjects were chosen from a group of 23 writers who teach below the college level. One quarter of classroom observation and taping produced an in-depth study of two expert…
Descriptors: Authors, Creative Teaching, Experimental Teaching, Poets
Download full textRoberts, Jane M. E.; Smith, Shirley C. – 1982
Research relevant to instructional improvement has usually been conducted from one of three perspectives: the adoption of improvements in the classroom, the dissemination of information about improvements to practitioners, or the relationship between adoption of improvements and the administrative organization of the adopting agency. This paper…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adoption (Ideas), Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development
Goodlad, John I. – Executive Review, 1982
The project entitled "A Study of Schooling" went to 7 regions in the U.S. to collect data on 13 widely representative elementary schools and the 25 junior and senior high schools they feed. School board members, administrators, 17,000 students, 8,500 parents, and 1,350 teachers were interviewed or responded to questionnaires. Over 1,000…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives, Educational Opportunities, Educational Policy
Smith, Theodore, Ed. – 1982
This handbook was designed for school-level planners (school site councils, principals, parent groups, and teachers) in developing, assessing, and improving K-12 science education programs. The main body of the handbook (chapter 2) describes the most important components of an effective science education program: (1) school-level plan; (2)…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Curriculum Development, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education
Kowle, Carol P.; And Others – 1982
This handbook provides program planners in vocational education with self-paced instruction in the framework of a problem-solving approach to program improvement. (The process can be applied to vocational school administration and management, student services, staff development, and instructional program areas.) Section 1 is a brief overview of…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Behavioral Objectives, Case Studies, Competency Based Education
Campbell, Clifton P. – 1981
A serious constraint to the development of a modern and diversified industrial base in Saudi Arabia is the critical shortage of skilled manpower. To remedy this deficit, vocational and technical education programs in the country are being revised and expanded. Five secondary-level Vocational Industrial Schools have been established by the Ministry…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, Labor Needs
O'Leary, R.; And Others – 1981
A 1979 survey of career education programs in the secondary schools of New Zealand revealed a general need for improvement. Most of the 269 programs surveyed could be improved in a number of areas, particularly definition, coordination, and commitment. Some schools, for example, define career education as career advising, when in fact it should be…
Descriptors: Career Education, Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Definitions
Zwerdling, Daniel – 1979
Beginning an an informal, unstructured information interchange among 100 union, worker, and management representatives from seventeen public and private sector organizations operationally involved in quality of work life activities, a 1977 conference evolved into the first annual meeting of the American Quality of Work Life Association.…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Education, Committees, Employer Employee Relationship
Page, Dessie, Comp.; Rigsby, Cindy, Comp. – 1980
This report of conference proceedings provides information and observations concerning the improvement of vocational education delivery systems within Black colleges and universities. The conference was held at the National Center for Research in Vocational Education for the purpose of discussing relevant information and techniques on the topic of…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Institutions, Career Counseling, Educational Strategies
Slaughter, Helen; Chilcott, John – 1981
An ethnographic approach to the evaluation of an Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I mathematics project designed for grades 3 and 5 low-achieving students is described. The research was designed as a series of eight disaggregated single case studies of the implementation of the project with the classroom serving as the unit. The focus of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Compensatory Education
Kelley, Edgar A. – 1980
Based on the assumption that a positive environment is an important component of a well-run school, this monograph offers techniques to school principals for evaluating and improving school climate. Topics covered include assessing school climate, planning for climate development, providing leadership for climate improvement, improving classroom…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Classroom Environment, Community Involvement
De Lorenzo, William E. – 1974
Achievement and maintenance of high quality, relevant teacher education are two of the foreign language teaching profession's most pressing problems. Several of the responsibilities that the profession must assume in order to deal with these problems are improving the esteem for the profession, identifying professional commitment, controlling…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Competency Based Teacher Education, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Nash, Al – 1977
Diverse opinions are held by workers, union officials, and labor researchers about the importance of the quality of working life to workers. Major issues in this debate focus on the following questions: (1) Is there a workers' movement to improve the quality of working life? (2) Do workers seek meaning and self-fulfillment in their jobs? (3) Can…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Experiments, Failure
