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Wylie, E. Caroline, Ed. – ETS Research Report Series, 2008
This series of papers was originally presented as a symposium at the annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) held between April 9, 2007, and April 13, 2007, in Chicago, IL. The authors represent school districts and departments of education across the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Program Development, Program Implementation, Fidelity
Sandvold, Amy; Baxter, Maelou – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2008
This book contains strategies for effective literacy coaching of teachers in districts and schools. Whether it's your job to start a literacy coaching initiative or to be an effective literacy coach to your colleagues, this guide has all the steps and strategies you need: (1) Roles and responsibilities of literacy coaches; (2) Keys to building…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Coaching (Performance), Literacy, Teacher Role
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Kreulen, Grace J.; Bednarz, Patricia K.; Wehrwein, Teresa; Davis, James – Journal of School Nursing, 2008
Collaboration between school districts and universities has potential to increase the level of health services available in schools while providing quality public health clinical nursing placements for universities. This article describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of the Clinical Education Partnership Model (CEPM), a dynamic…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Nursing Students, Nursing Education, School Health Services
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Wasburn-Moses, Leah; Rosenberg, Michael S. – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2008
With the proliferation of alternative route (AR) special education teacher preparation programs, many teacher educators are likely to be involved in AR program design and implementation. Unfortunately, few resources have focused on best practices for program developers to prepare the nontraditional participants who typically populate their…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Program Design, Guidelines, Special Education Teachers
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Caravita, Silvia; Valente, Adriana; Luzi, Daniela; Pace, Paul; Valanides, Nicos; Khalil, Iman; Berthou, Guillemette; Kozan-Naumescu, Adrienne; Clement, Pierre – Science Education International, 2008
Knowledge about ecology and environmental education (EE) constitutes a basic tool for promoting a sustainable future, and was a target area of the BIOHEAD-Citizen Project. School textbooks were considered as representative sources of evidence in terms of ecology and environmental education, and were used for comparison among the countries…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Textbooks, Ecology, Textbook Content
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Wozny, Darren A.; Porter, Julia Y.; Watson, Joshua C. – Perspectives in Peer Programs, 2008
Campus students are most likely to confide with other students (Brownson, 2007). Thus, the student peer program's rationale is that it is a vital component of our campus suicide prevention project's purpose to early identify at-risk students, engage at-risk students, and utilize appropriate helping interventions (may include referral to the…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Prevention, At Risk Students, Suicide
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Ayers, David F.; Miller-Dyce, Cherrel; Carlone, David – Community College Review, 2008
Researchers asked 17 participants in a job-training program to describe their personal struggles following an economic restructuring. Examined through a critical theoretical lens, findings indicate that the learners enrolled in the program to reclaim security, dignity, meaningful work, and caring relationships. Program planners at community…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Educational Philosophy, Program Development, Job Training
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Janczewski, Colleen; Dutch, Nicole; Wang, Kathleen – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2008
Guided by research and the experiences of judges nationwide, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges made a commitment in 1998 to improve community response to families experiencing domestic violence and child maltreatment. A year later, the council's work culminated in a set of recommendations commonly called the "Greenbook,"…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Demonstration Programs
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Hodson, Peter; Connolly, Michael; Younes, Said – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the introduction of a quality assurance system in a new, private university in Syria, and considers the extent to which the theoretical model based on institutional theory and isomorphism is reflected in practice. Design/methodology/approach: A five year longitudinal study which reviews the design,…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Quality Control, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
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Luppicini, Rocci – Educational Technology & Society, 2008
The purpose of this qualitative research study is to gauge the current state of the academic developments in Educational Technology in order to identify pivotal issues and offer suggestions for future planning in Canada. This article explores the professional literature and the views of 25 senior faculty members from the twelve Canadian…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Distance Education, Foreign Countries
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Estaville, Lawrence E.; Akiwumi, Fenda A.; Montalvo, Edris J. – Journal of Geography, 2008
The discipline of geography in the United States has not done a good job of attracting people, other than Asians, from underrepresented ethnic groups. This article examines undergraduate geography programs in the United States to understand better the status of their ethnic diversity, particularly regarding Hispanics and African Americans, and to…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Geography, Student Diversity, Undergraduate Study
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Caspi, Jonathan – Research on Social Work Practice, 2008
One strategy for addressing the persistent challenge of advancing empirically based social work practice is to engage practitioners in the formulation of empirically developed practice guidelines. Although this approach is promising, there has been relatively little work to guide practitioners, and perhaps consequently, few examples of…
Descriptors: Siblings, Sibling Relationship, Guidelines, Social Work
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Ayala, Carlos C.; Shavelson, Richard J.; Ruiz-Primo, Maria Araceli; Brandon, Paul R.; Yin, Yue; Furtak, Erin Marie; Young, Donald B.; Tomita, Miki K. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2008
The idea that formative assessments embedded in a curriculum could help guide teachers toward better instructional practices that lead to greater student learning has taken center stage in science assessment research. In order to embed formative assessments in a curriculum, curriculum developers and assessment specialists should collaborate to…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Teaching Methods, Alignment (Education)
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Richards, Derek; Tangney, Brendan – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2008
As a potential solution to increasing demands on mental health services at universities, this project seeks to develop an informal online learning community for mental health support and education. Students' use of the Internet and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), especially to access health information, provides a supporting…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Mental Health Programs, Internet, Counseling Techniques
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Vickio, Craig J. – New Directions for Student Services, 2008
If colleges and universities are truly committed to promoting the well-being of their students and fostering their academic success, they must attend to the needs of grieving students. One way to do this is to invite students to use the university's counseling services following the death of a loved one. However, although grief counseling can be…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, College Students, Social Support Groups, Grief
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