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Ward, Tony; Day, Andrew; Casey, Sharon – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2006
In this paper we offer an overview of reintegration policies in both Australia and New Zealand. We describe the rehabilitative practices of both countries, and their basis in the Risk-Needs-Responsivity model of offender rehabilitation, before outlining the recently developed Good Lives Model of offender rehabilitation. Our conclusion is that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Correctional Rehabilitation, Institutionalized Persons, Rehabilitation Programs
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Huffman, Jane B.; Pankake, Anita; Munoz, Ava – Journal of School Leadership, 2006
This article offers information about a district's school improvement efforts to reculture as a professional learning community, which we believe exemplifies the school and district levels of Fullan's (2004b, 2005) tri-level model. We use Fullan's eight elements of sustainability to organize the data gathered in interviews with school and district…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Accountability, School Districts, Instructional Leadership
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Beichner, Robert J. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2006
The purpose of this brief paper is to provide insight into the kinds of work being done by an education research group in a US physics department. As will be evident, instructional technology raises many interesting questions and lends itself to a wide variety of studies. References and contacts are provided for readers wanting more detailed…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Physics, Educational Technology, Departments
Center for the Study of Social Policy, 2008
As of March 2008, over half of U.S. states are facing projected budget shortfalls for the coming fiscal year. During economic downturns such as this, opportunities available to hard-working, low-wage families are diminished. These conditions create growing concerns for policymakers who must, with fewer state resources, enhance opportunities and…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Evidence, Policy Formation, State Policy
Karpinska, Zuki – Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies, 2008
A year and a half after the launch of the "INEE Minimum Standards" in December 2004, a small baseline study suggested that awareness of the existence of the handbook among educational stakeholders in Uganda was low; in addition, the study found no instance of utilization of the handbook. The present report contains the findings of a…
Descriptors: Evidence, Program Effectiveness, Stakeholders, Child Welfare
National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities, 2008
At the request of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities (NCEF) has conducted "a literature search and review to identify best practices in [school] building design for accommodating the evacuation and sheltering needs of individuals with special needs or…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Building Design, Best Practices, Fire Protection
Walker, Karen – Education Partnerships, Inc., 2004
What are the advantages and disadvantages of weighted grading? The primary purpose of weighted grading has been to encourage high school students to take more rigorous courses. This effort is then acknowledged by more weight being given to the grade for a specified class. There are numerous systems of weighted grading cited in the literature from…
Descriptors: Grading, Weighted Scores, Evaluation Methods, Best Practices
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Klonsky, Michael – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2004
Immediately following the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Colorado, the issue of school size jumped onto the front pages and into policy discussions. When violent episodes broke out in Littleton, Colorado, Port Huron, Michigan and in other districts, they have dominated the national media scene for months in a way that student deaths in…
Descriptors: Violence, School Size, Best Practices, Urban Areas
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Petr, Christopher G.; Walter, Uta M. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2005
This article offers a multidimensional framework that broadens current approaches to "best practices" inquiry to include (1) the perspectives of both the consumers of services and professional practitioners and (2) a value-based critique. The predominant empirical approach to best practices inquiry is a necessary, but not sufficient, component of…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Inquiry, Social Work, Models
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Maule, Catherine O.; Moyer, Cheryl A.; Lovato, Chris Y. – American Journal of Health Behavior, 2003
Objectives: To describe the Better Practices model and its application to review youth tobacco cessation practices. Methods: Growing emphasis on evidence-based practice in health has drawn attention to methods for the identification of "best practices." Canadian organizations and government collaborated to develop a framework for…
Descriptors: Smoking, Foreign Countries, Best Practices, Program Effectiveness
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Meletiou-Mavrotheris, Maria; Mavrotheris, Efstathios – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2007
Acknowledging the fact that teachers are at the heart of any educational reform effort, the European Union funded project EarlyStatistics aims to enrich European children's learning of statistics by offering their mathematics teachers a high-quality online professional development program. A central conviction underlying the design of the program…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Computer Mediated Communication, Statistics
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Thomas, Glyn – Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 2007
In this paper I discuss some of the strengths and weaknesses of two different approaches to teaching motor skills to students in outdoor education and outdoor recreation settings. Using acronyms to describe their stages: DEDICT is a six step, direct instructional model that some outdoor leaders may already be familiar with; and FERAL is my…
Descriptors: Outdoor Leadership, Outdoor Education, Skill Development, Direct Instruction
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education, 2007
In 2002, HM Inspectorate of Education (HMIE) carried out a review of the contribution of the Scottish science centres to formal and informal science education as part of a broader review of all science centres in the United Kingdom. This report identifies many strengths in individual centres and across the network. It is clear that the centres…
Descriptors: Science Education, Foreign Countries, Best Practices, Science Course Improvement Projects
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Bishop, M. J.; Hyclak, Tom; Yerk-Zwickl, Sherri – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2007
This paper describes the three-year evolution of an online Economics I course, reports on student outcomes and evaluations, and discusses the lessons learned. Results show that, as the course evolved from an instructor-led to a student-centered learning pedagogical model, several indicators of completing students' learning and satisfaction with…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes, Economics
Lawrence, Arul A. S. – Online Submission, 2015
The XX IDEA annual conference has been focused and reflected on different ways and means of meeting various kinds of methodological challenges, new technologies and multi-media developments, newly emerging partnerships and collaboration between emerging sectors on one hand and between the institutions functioning with similar objectives and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Education, Distance Education, Barriers
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