Publication Date
In 2025 | 314 |
Since 2024 | 1572 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 6749 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 20399 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 52274 |
Descriptor
Comparative Analysis | 91257 |
Foreign Countries | 24932 |
Higher Education | 12524 |
Teaching Methods | 12046 |
Statistical Analysis | 9702 |
Student Attitudes | 9538 |
Academic Achievement | 8562 |
College Students | 6991 |
Scores | 6938 |
Correlation | 6738 |
Elementary School Students | 6154 |
More ▼ |
Source
Author
Howe, Richard D. | 294 |
Jerry, Laura | 94 |
Ballator, Nada | 86 |
Lutkus, Anthony | 49 |
Sedlacek, William E. | 43 |
Jerry, Laura J. | 40 |
Vaughn, Sharon | 40 |
Verhoeven, Ludo | 40 |
Matson, Johnny L. | 35 |
Marsh, Herbert W. | 34 |
Hwang, Gwo-Jen | 32 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
Practitioners | 1993 |
Researchers | 1387 |
Teachers | 1048 |
Policymakers | 980 |
Administrators | 783 |
Community | 270 |
Media Staff | 136 |
Students | 116 |
Counselors | 49 |
Parents | 45 |
Support Staff | 22 |
More ▼ |
Location
United States | 3020 |
Australia | 2096 |
Canada | 2039 |
United Kingdom | 1632 |
Turkey | 1586 |
China | 1492 |
California | 1298 |
United Kingdom (England) | 1242 |
Germany | 1192 |
Texas | 1015 |
Japan | 987 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Meets WWC Standards without Reservations | 160 |
Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations | 242 |
Does not meet standards | 218 |
Teeters, Jim – 2001
This document is designed to help adult educators implement the Teach with Style model of teaching adults. The introduction discusses how adults learn and the best way to teach them. Chapter 1 explains the tenets of the Teach with Style model, which is based on four distinct instructor styles. Chapters 2-5 detail the strategies and activities…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Maxwell, Nan L.; Rubin, Victor – 2001
The outcomes and implementation of career academy programs in California were examined in a study of one school district's efforts to implement a uniform career academy model in 1990-1996. A cohort of approximately 10,000 students who were sophomores in the district's comprehensive high schools between 1990 and 1993 were followed through high…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Career Academies, Career Education
2000
This document contains three papers from a symposium on increasing job satisfaction that was conducted as part of a conference on human resource development (HRD). "A Systematic Model of Job Design by Examining the Organizational Factors Affecting Satisfaction" (Zhichao Cheng, Danyang Yang, Fenglou Liu) reports on a project in which…
Descriptors: Administrators, Attitude Change, Career Choice, Career Planning
1999
These four papers are from a symposium on evaluation in human resource development (HRD). "Assessing Organizational Readiness for Learning through Evaluative Inquiry" (Hallie Preskill, Rosalie T. Torres) reviews how evaluative inquiry can facilitate organizational learning; argues HRD evaluation should be reconceptualized as a process…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing
Freedman, Stephen – 2000
The National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies was conducted to explore whether programs examined in the evaluation have helped welfare recipients move into the labor force and remain employed over the long term. As part of the evaluation, a study was conducted to identify the 4-year impacts that 10 programs in 6 sites have had on former…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Education Work Relationship, Employment Level
Paek, Pamela L.; Ponte, Eva; Sigel, Irv; Braun, Henry; Powers, Don – College Board, 2005
The Advanced Placement Program® (AP®) is dedicated to providing high school students opportunities to enroll in college-level courses while in high school. The advantages of such accelerated opportunities are both financial and educational. The AP Program is available internationally. As a result of its widespread availability, considerable effort…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, High School Students, Secondary School Teachers, High Schools
Camara, Wayne J.; Schmidt, Amy Elizabeth – College Entrance Examination Board, 1999
Group differences among ethnic and racial groups on a series of educational measures and outcomes are examined. African-American and Hispanic students perform substantially lower than white and Asian students on the SAT I. These substantial differences also exist on a variety of other admissions tests used for undergraduate, graduate, and…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Social Stratification, Differences, Scores
Komro, Kelli A.; Perry, Cheryl L.; Veblen-Mortenson, Sara; Stigler, Melissa H.; Bosma, Linda M.; Munson, Karen A.; Farbakhsh, Kian – Health Education & Behavior, 2004
The objectives of this study were to examine outcomes of the Minnesota D.A.R.E. Plus Project on violence-related behaviors among middle school students and mediation analyses that test how the intervention was effective in reducing physical and verbal violence. Twenty-four schools were randomly assigned to the D.A.R.E. middle school curriculum,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Violence, Females, Males
Clery, Sue – Achieving the Dream, 2006
Using data from Achieving the Dream: Community College Count, this issue of "Data Notes" looks at the percentage of students referred to developmental education and, of those referred, the percentage that attempted and completed at least one developmental education course in their first and second terms. The data show that more than 80…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Academic Support Services, Minority Group Students, Racial Differences
Powers, Stephen; Price-Johnson, Connie – Online Submission, 2006
Background: The Waterford Early Reading Program (WERP), a technology-based program for early elementary grades, was provided through Arizona all day kindergarten funds to kindergarten students in 15 Title I elementary schools in the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) in the 2005-06 school year. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Reading Programs, Reading Achievement, Reading Tests
Snyder, Thomas D.; Hoffman, Charlene M. – 1995
This edition is the 31st in a series of publications initiated in 1962. Its primary purpose is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from kindergarten through graduate school. The "Digest" includes a selection of data from many sources, and draws especially on the results of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Graduates, Comparative Analysis, Economic Factors
Council of Ontario Universities, Toronto. – 1996
This report documents the impact upon Ontario (Canada) universities of a continuous decline in university funding over the past two decades, coupled with major cutbacks in the past year, that have reduced provincial government grants, partially deregulated university tuition fees, and reorganized student aid initiatives. In text and 23 figures the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Economic Change, Economic Impact
Price, Jane, Ed. – 1992
This publication contains 25 papers from a conference on defining quality higher education. Opening sections cover the conference program and members of the conference's steering committee. A representative sampling of papers includes the following: "The College Student Experiences Questionnaire: A Follow-Up Study of Academic and Social…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), College Faculty, College Freshmen, College Students
Green-Eide, Beth – 1991
A study reviewed and compared initial and renewal practices for licensure/registration of 13 health care occupations regulated in the state of Minnesota. It examined mandatory continuing education (MCE) documentation and the practices of licensing boards in their enforcement of the MCE legislation. The Minnesota Statutes and Rules for the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Dental Assistants, Dental Hygienists, Dentists
Riccio, James; And Others – 1994
The cost-effectiveness and 3-year impacts of California's Greater Avenues for Independence (GAIN) program, which is a statewide initiative aimed at increasing the employment and self-sufficiency of recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), were evaluated by studying follow-up data for 33,000 people from 6 counties who entered…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, County Programs