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Download full textForeman, David J.; Dunn, John G. – 1997
The management enhancement team approach (META) is a team-driven management development program designed for managers within Australia's National Vocational Education and Training Sector (NVETS). META, which has been piloted at more than 70 sites across Australia, is designed to identify and address management development needs within the context…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Case Studies, Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries
McCullough, K. Owen – 1991
The One-Room-Drop-In-School (ORDIS) emerged as one of Tennessee's dropout prevention program innovations. A pilot ORDIS was started in Nashville (Tennessee), in a high density housing project where concentrations of poverty and illiteracy usually exist. A five-bedroom apartment in the housing project was set up as a school. A certified teacher,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Riggs, Matt L.; Worthley, Joanna S. – 1992
A meta-assessment is provided of 15 pilot projects aimed at demonstrating how student outcomes of various kinds can be used to assess the effectiveness of general education and baccalaureate degree programs. The Student Outcomes Assessment projects funded by Academic Program Improvement grants of the California state university system, have…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, College Students, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement
Center To Prevent Handgun Violence, Washington, DC. – 1992
Straight Talk about Risks (STAR) is a pre-kindergarten through grade 12 curriculum designed to reduce the potential for children and teens to be injured or killed in gunfire. STAR is based on sound prevention practices developed from a pilot project in Dade County (Florida). The flexible format allows activities to fit into a 3-week classroom unit…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, At Risk Persons, Bibliographies, Crime
Lovelace, Bill E.; LaBrecque, Suzanne V. – 1993
The extent to which competency-based instruction (CBI) has been implemented in postsecondary-level vocational-technical education programs and courses throughout Texas was assessed. Questionnaires were mailed to the occupational education deans/directors of 69 public community and technical college campuses. Each dean/director distributed the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Community Colleges, Competency Based Education, Educational Assessment
Lovelace, Bill E.; LaBrecque, Suzanne V. – 1993
A statewide assessment process was designed and pilot tested to determine the extent to which competency-based instruction (CBI) has been implemented in vocational-technical education programs and courses in all public community and technical colleges in Texas. The final report consists of two volumes. Volume I contains the rationale…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Community Colleges, Competency Based Education, Educational Assessment
Howley, Craig; Boren, Sue – 1993
This report describes the development and evaluation of mathematics activities manuals for grades K-8, correlated with the Tennessee state mathematics curriculum. Seventeen elementary teachers and seven secondary teachers met during January-June 1989 to write draft versions of the manuals and demonstrate activity-based mathematics and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Instructional Material Evaluation, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Schattgen, Sharon Ford – 1993
Initial efforts to validate a developmentally appropriate assessment system for use with children aged 3 to 7 years are described. The Project Construct Assessment System is part of a comprehensive framework for curriculum and assessment that is predicated on the theory that children construct their own knowledge. It features a variety of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Constructivism (Learning), Early Childhood Education, Educational Assessment
Ang, Cheng H.; Noble, Julie P. – 1993
This study examined the separate and joint use of high school course grades, course work taken, and American College Testing Program (ACT) Assessment subject area scores for making course placement decisions. The data for this study were obtained from nine institutions through their participation in a pilot study of the ACT Course Placement…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Course Selection (Students), Decision Making, English
California Assessment Collaborative, San Francisco. – 1993
The California Assessment Collaborative (CAC) was designed as a three-year effort to identify, validate, and disseminate alternatives to standardized testing throughout the state. This report highlights the results from the first year and comments on the work of 22 diverse pilot projects that serve as examples of site-based development of…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Cooperation, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Larson, Jan; Smith, Marian A. – 1994
To learn more about students' computer-literacy levels and attitudes about computer use, a pilot study was performed in the summer of 1993 to evaluate the computer literacy of first-year students entering the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. A survey was completed by 444 incoming students during their orientation programs. The majority had some…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Computer Anxiety, Computer Attitudes, Computer Literacy
Bradshaw, Dean H.; Chow, Stanley H. L. – 1990
The audiographics distance learning system (ADL) was piloted by Far West Laboratory (FWL) in 1987-1989 at four school districts in the Great Basin region of Utah. This project was designed to: (1) further develop ADL planning materials for rural schools; (2) disseminate information about ADL to regional and national audiences; and (3) provide ADL…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Computer Graphics, Computer Networks, Distance Education
Redfield, Doris L.; And Others – 1989
A model is presented for including student outcome measures on teacher evaluation systems when there are needs for both formative and summative evaluation data. The experiences of Kentucky and Georgia provided bases for the development of the dual purpose assessment model. Pilot tests in Kentucky and Georgia were specific to the top-down…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement
Stancil, Jon Scott; Melear, Claudia T. – 1991
Previous studies indicate that only 6 percent of the nation's population possess the minimum level of understanding of science and technology needed to function minimally as citizens and consumers. Many educators speculate that scientific illiteracy originates in elementary school classrooms, not from intellectual inferiority, but rather from…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Computer Graphics, Control Groups, Education Majors
Arizona State Univ., Tempe. Hispanic Research Center. – 1990
Project PRIME is a multifaceted accelerated academic program that identifies minority group junior and senior high school students with academic aptitude and prepares them for college. Arizona is the site of Project PRIME's national demonstration pilot project because the state has a culturally diverse population and accessible urban, suburban,…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Career Education, College Preparation, Educational Improvement
