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Moore, John W.; Mitchem, Cheryl E. – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2004
This paper provides a model of course-embedded assessment for use in an undergraduate Accounting Information Systems course, and reports the results obtained from implementation. The profession's educational objectives are mapped to specific computer skills and assignments, to provide direct evidence of learning outcomes. Indirect evidence of…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Accounting, Self Efficacy, Undergraduate Students
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 2002
This review identifies where Danish public authorities intend to take their adult education and training (AET) system, main issues in AET reform (VEU-Reform), and recommendations from reviewers. Section 1 introduces the thematic review. Section 2 presents an overview of policy issues, AET, and VEU-Reform. It lists objectives of VEU-Reform (improve…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Articulation (Education), Cooperative Programs
Zhang, May Xiu-qin – 1998
This paper argues that formal and explicit instruction and learners' prior knowledge play a crucial role in teaching and learning English as a second language (ESL), and that a pure communicative approach is inadequate in achieving optimum results. The discussion is presented in two parts. The first outlines the issues under consideration,…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Hall, James W.; Bonnabeau, Richard F. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1993
Through a combination of prior coursework, contract learning, credit for experience, standardized tests, and other methods of evaluating prior learning, the Empire State College (New York) allows adults to complete undergraduate degree requirements. The nonresidential institution serves students throughout the state, with faculty in over 40…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Adult Students, Case Studies, Change Strategies
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Shapka, Jennifer D.; Keating, Daniel P. – American Educational Research Journal, 2003
This article investigates the benefits of girls-only classroom instruction in math and science during Grades 9 and 10, in the context of a public coeducational high school. It is based on a longitudinal investigation with 786 participants: 85 girls in all-girl classes, and 319 girls and 382 boys in a regular coeducational program. Preexisting…
Descriptors: Psychological Characteristics, Intervention, Females, Science Achievement
Rendon, Laura I.; Jalomo, Romero, Jr. – 1995
This study assessed how in- and out-of-class experiences influenced the transition to college, student involvement with institutional life, and student perceptions about learning among 72 first-year community college students from three institutions with large numbers of either Hispanic or African American students. The students were interviewed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Asian American Students, Asian Americans
Fitzgerald, Gail E.; Standifer, Rhetta; Semrau, Louis P.; Johnson, Jodi – 1998
This paper reports the results of observation skills training via an interactive multimedia training program for preservice teachers at Lincoln University (Missouri). The training program provides multiple videos for users to practice six types of observation methodologies, comparisons to "expert" data, and on-line access to procedural…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Coding, Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction
Purcell-Gates, Victoria – 1986
Educators suggest that children whose families have read to them during their preschool years acquire lexical and syntactic knowledge of sentence-level features typical of written narrative before they begin formal literacy instruction. To test this claim, to discern growth in this knowledge over time and experience, and to describe the lexical…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Developmental Stages, Discourse Analysis, Early Childhood Education
Shank, Cathy C. – 1986
A review of literature on the learning processes and potential of adult students of English as a Second Language, not literate in their native language, looks at research in the following areas: (1) the differences between children and adults in language learning; (2) the effects of previous formal education on second language learning; (3) the…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Age Differences
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Hudson, Peter – Journal of Learning Design, 2005
Reform documents have provided a framework for advancing science education (e.g., The Australian National Science Standard Committee, 2002), but omit the need to assess preservice teachers prior knowledge for designing effective learning programs. A pretest-posttest 34-item survey linked to the course outcomes (associated with four constructs)…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Preservice Teacher Education, Statistical Analysis, Elementary School Science
Hansen, Evelyn Unes – 1980
Four studies concerning the impact on students and faculty of individualized baccalaureate programs at the General College of the University of Minnesota were conducted. These studies concerned faculty perceptions of the individualized degree program; consequences of the program on faculty advising, activities, and academic load; reactions of…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, College Credits, Education Work Relationship, Employment Potential
Kleppick, Annabelle L. – 1979
Techniques and problems involved with the assessment of prior experiential learning are discussed and the assessment techniques of baccalaureate health administration programs are reviewed. Experiential learning is defined as learning that an individual has attained through experience prior to enrollment in an academic program. Broadening access…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Students, Allied Health Occupations Education, College Credits
National Education Committee, Kathmandu (Nepal). – 1978
The 1971-76 National Education System Plan to modernize education in Nepal and the 1975-1980 Fifth Plan of His Majesty's Government, emphasizing vocational education to meet the country's technical manpower needs, are attempts to make education relevant to the needs and aspirations of Nepal by linking education with productive enterprise and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Affective Objectives, Community Development, Developing Nations
Morais, Anne – 2001
The Skills and Knowledge Profile (SKP) is a tool developed in Canada to document learning styles and strategies of adult learners. The instrument was developed as a systematic approach to capturing the learning styles of unemployed and employed adults across sectors. It is made up of these six sections: (1) Learning Access and Personal…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Cognitive Style
Eraut, Michael; Maillardet, Fred; Miller, Carolyn; Steadman, Stephen; Ali, Amer; Blackman, Claire; Furner, Judith – 2003
Learning in the first professional job was examined in a study of 40 nurses, 27 engineers, and 16 accountants who were in their first full year of full-time employment after college in hospitals and firms located in the United Kingdom. Data were collected through the following activities: (1) interviews with the respondents; (2) 1- to 2-day visits…
Descriptors: Accountants, Apprenticeships, Case Studies, College Graduates
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