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Cato, Bertha – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD), 2007
The growing interest in youth development, prevention, and assessment has challenged professional practices relative to the design, implementation, and evaluation of youth development programs. This article sheds light on the need for continuous training and staff development in the areas of program development and documentation, using the…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Program Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Case Studies
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Arslan, Ridvan; Kus, Abdil; Mumcu, Haldun; Uzaslan, N. Tufan – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2008
Studies on continuous education and alteration are highly significant in order to improve the technical and social abilities of the industry employees. Generally, these kinds of educational facilities are carried on in the range of in-house training. Besides in-house training, it is also possible to improve the abilities of the employees with the…
Descriptors: Employees, Staff Development, Models, Cooperative Education
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Klieger, Aviva; Oster-Levinz, Anat – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2008
Professional Development Schools (PDSs) are collaborative ventures between schools and teacher training institutions. We identify the characteristics of a school that lead to successful PDS collaboration, relating them to Teitel's model (2003) that merges the principal standards of collaboration with the stages necessary for developing a PDS. We…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Institutional Characteristics, Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation
Stone, Bj; Urquhart, Vicki – Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), 2008
Vocabulary is a pivotal component of a student's background knowledge, and the research indicates that vocabulary instruction can be an effective means for increasing it. This booklet describes the positive outcomes that result when a school- or district-wide vocabulary program is strategically developed and intentionally implemented. The…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development, Program Development, Program Implementation
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Sandhaas, Bernd – Convergence, 2008
Within Ethiopia's overall development strategy, the Integrated Women's Empowerment Programme (IWEP) aims to develop, test and implement a comprehensive nationwide approach to empower women and their households in selected areas of all regions/national states of Ethiopia. The programme provides functional literacy education and livelihood skills…
Descriptors: Females, Economically Disadvantaged, Adult Education, Foreign Countries
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Murray, Adam – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2008
Designed to assist with the management of e-resources, electronic resource management (ERM) systems are time- and fund-consuming to purchase and maintain. Questions of system compatibility, data population, and workflow design/redesign can be difficult to answer; sometimes those answers are not what we'd prefer to hear. The two primary functions…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Electronic Publishing, Library Administration, Web Sites
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Chikami, Satoshi; Sobue, Kirstie – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2008
In Japan, environmental education partnerships among citizens, businesses and local government increased since new legislation was introduced in 2003, but there was little evidence of cross-sector collaboration until recently. Nagoya Open University of the Environment is a highly innovative, multi-sectoral citizen learning system founded in 2005…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Local Government
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Carton, Janet; Jerrams, Steve – Industry and Higher Education, 2008
Graduate education platforms have received general acclaim as key components in the future structural development of third-level and fourth-level education in Europe. In Ireland the Higher Education Authority (HEA) has endorsed the restructuring of postgraduate education to incorporate the training of research students in key generic and…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Foreign Countries, Performance Factors, Program Development
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Pagano, Neil; Bernhardt, Stephen A.; Reynolds, Dudley; Williams, Mark; McCurrie, Matthew Kilian – College Composition and Communication, 2008
In a FIPSE-funded assessment project, a group of diverse institutions collaborated on developing a common, course-embedded approach to assessing student writing in our first-year writing programs. The results of this assessment project, the processes we developed to assess authentic student writing, and individual institutional perspectives are…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Freshman Composition, Performance Based Assessment
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Weissman, Julie; Magill, Brett A. – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2008
Many institutions of higher education have designed a variety of first-year seminars to facilitate student transition to college. These seminars are often assessed in terms of their overall impact on academic performance and retention. However, limited research has been conducted to identify the types of seminars that are most effective for…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Academic Achievement, Multivariate Analysis, Program Effectiveness
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Payne, Deborah; Nakato, Margaret; Nabalango, Caroline – Rural Society, 2008
Water collection in rural areas of Uganda is left primarily to women and children. Katosi Women Development Trust, an NGO based in rural Uganda has focused on addressing the gender-linked issue of increased water sources near the home through the construction of rain water collection tanks. In an effort to improve the income of members as well as…
Descriptors: Water, Income, Females, Masonry
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Butler, Peter J.; Dong, Cheng; Snyder, Alan J.; Jones, A. Daniel; Sheets, Erin D. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2008
Summer undergraduate research programs in science and engineering facilitate research progress for faculty and provide a close-ended research experience for students, which can prepare them for careers in industry, medicine, and academia. However, ensuring these outcomes is a challenge when the students arrive ill-prepared for substantive research…
Descriptors: Cytology, Undergraduate Study, Summer Science Programs, Biotechnology
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Whalley, Margy; Chandler, Rachel; John, Karen; Reid, Lindsay; Thorpe, Sheila; Everitt, John – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2008
In 2004, the UK government launched a new programme for early years leaders in England--the National Professional Qualification in Integrated Centre Leadership (NPQICL). In collaboration with the National College for School Leadership, Pen Green led the development, pilot and rollout of this M-level training programme, which by 2006-07 involved 17…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Public Policy
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Quatroche, Diana J.; Wepner, Shelley B. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2008
This article reports on the results of a survey examining the perceptions of university faculty regarding the importance of graduate programs preparing reading specialists for a leadership role. The results of the survey indicate that slightly more that half of the programs require a leadership course and less than half of the reading specialist…
Descriptors: Reading Consultants, Specialists, Program Development, Reading Instruction
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Smith, Calvin – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2008
This paper describes the development of a model for integrating student evaluation of teaching results with academic development opportunities, in new ways that take into account theoretical and practical developments in both fields. The model is described in terms of five phases or components: (1) the basic student evaluation system; (2) an…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Student Experience, Faculty Development, Professional Development
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