This article provides results about a high school's support for its peer mediation program and the effectiveness of that program. The four subject groups surveyed included faculty, students in eight home room classes, trained student mediators, and students who had used the program to resolve an interpersonal conflict. Individuals directly…

The reasons that students in the United Kingdom fail to complete General National Vocational Qualifications (GNVQ) courses were examined through a study that involved four key elements: questionnaire survey of 3,391 students enrolled in GNVQ courses in further education colleges and schools; questionnaire survey of 782 centers providing GNVQs;…

This document is the result of a utilization study of Mississippi Educational Television where 27 target audiences were identified and surveyed. The following information is included: a draft of and updated state network utilization studies; planning and management strategies; a profile of the survey populations; a distance learning survey report;…

This guide is designed to help funders and government and nongovernment agencies understand the types of programs with the greatest potential to improve the lives of some of American society's most disadvantaged members. Much of the material is drawn from "Nurturing Young Black Males: Challenges to Agencies, Programs, and Social Policy,"…

Despite the importance of breakfast, summer, and after-school child nutrition programs, coverage in these programs in Massachusetts is low. This report describes the barriers facing the states School Breakfast, Summer Food Service, and After-School Snack Programs and suggests many innovative solutions and resources that program sponsors can use to…

In response to recent state legislation, school districts in New York developed plans for universal prekindergarten (UPK) programs for the 1998-1999 academic year. Based on an analysis of the first year prekindergarten program plans for 63 upstate New York districts (with follow-up information on 29 districts) and 32 New York City districts, this…

A formative committee conducted a developmental study to produce a program evaluation instrument (PEI) that would be effective in conducting an adult basic education (ABE) program evaluation study at Nicolet Area Technical College (NATC). Five procedures were used to complete this product. First, a literature review was conducted that assisted in…

Executive Directors of parent centers have very challenging careers. For example, they need to ensure that high quality services are developed and provided; funds are raised; bills are paid on time; staff are hired, trained and supported; boards are recruited and effective; community awareness is high; and reports are accurate and submitted on…

Sound imaginative vocational programs for all students may well be the only answer to the cry that is gaining intensity throughtout the country--that public school education as we know it has got to go. (Author)

This paper describes how a theory of intrinsic motivation can be adopted as an overall theoretical framework to guide a teacher education program. Teacher training institutions can apply concepts of personal causation theory within their faculties, with education majors, and for the future pupils of their graduates. (PP)

Describes methods and conclusions of an in-depth evaluation of the UNESCO Associated Schools Project for International Understanding. The report includes suggestions for improving course content, teaching methods, and instructional materials. Improvements in program quality, international coordination, information dissemination, and expansion into…

Reviews seven factors that will bring about change in the 1980s that will affect the agricultural education profession: (1) changes in the ages of groups with whom vocational agriculture will work, (2) more working women, (3) pressures for accountability, (4) changing teacher attitudes, (5) competency-based education, (6) changing technology, and…

Students should have input about the teaching that affects them, but, as faculty often assert, students are not competent judges of a professor's expertise. However, an instrument which elicited students' nonjudgmental descriptions of their teacher's behavior could add valuable information to an evaluation dialogue with the professor concerned.…

Research on residency education in family practice is discussed. Programmatic variables are examined: geographic region, size, and type of program. Definitions of these variables are provided, the current distribution of family practice residency programs across each of these variables is described, and data for use by other researchers is…

An experiential learning questionnaire was administered to students in eight experience-based career education programs to determine the characteristics of both good and poor learning experiences in the community. Implications of the study for college staff responsible for designing or improving community-based experiential programs are discussed.…