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Download full textMirny, A.; Wiske, M. S.; Joo, J.; Cunningham, G.; Daniels, D.; Farid, A. B.; Gordon, F.; Madani, R.; Nissen, S. C. – Online Submission, 2010
A year-long collaborative action research project used networked technologies to connect researchers at a university-based online professional development program and a group of practitioner researchers based in a range of schools and educational agencies in several countries. They studied the process and effects of online professional development…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Improvement, Educational Change, Professional Development
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Direct linkGeith, Chris; Vignare, Karen; Bourquin, Leslie D.; Thiagarajan, Deepa – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2010
The Food Safety Knowledge Network (FSKN) is a collaboration between Michigan State University, the Global Food Safety Initiative of the Consumer Goods Forum, and other food industry and public sector partners. FSKN's goal is to help strengthen the food industry's response to the complex food safety knowledge and training challenges that affect…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Manufacturing, International Trade
Kalles, Dimitrios – Computers & Education, 2008
In this paper we offer a report on a university-level programming laboratory course that has been designed on top of a programming library. The course enforces soft skills, such as code inspection and team working, sharpens implementation skills and creates a bridge between introductory, language-specific instruction and senior-year full-blown…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Programming, Program Implementation
Freit-Hammes, Lori – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2007
When Western Wisconsin Technical College created the Health Benefits Improvement Team, they had no experience with the complexity and ever-changing demands of health care and its associated costs. See how they've embraced their mission and are changing the way business is done in their community.
Descriptors: Technical Institutes, Health Programs, Health Needs, Health Care Costs
Evaluations that Consider the Cost of Educational Programs: The Contribution of High-Quality Studies
Ross, John A.; Barkaoui, Khaled; Scott, Garth – American Journal of Evaluation, 2007
Cost studies are program evaluations that judge program worth by relating program costs to program benefits. There are three sets of strategies: cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness, and cost-utility analysis, although the last appears infrequently. The authors searched relevant databases to identify 103 cost studies in education and then reduced the…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Improvement, Program Effectiveness, Effect Size
Sandel, Kate, Ed. – Finance Project, 2007
Sustainability is a critical issue for out-of-school programs. Time-limited grants, narrow categorical funding streams, and difficult economic conditions leave program leaders in a continual struggle to find a stable base of resources to continue their program over time. In the face of these challenges, many out-of-school initiatives have…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Profiles, Financial Support, Program Implementation
Kennedy, Elena; Wilson, Brooke; Valladares, Sherylls; Bronte-Tinkew, Jacinta – Child Trends, 2007
Regular participation in out-of-school time activities is associated with benefits for children. However, children cannot reap the benefits of program participation if they do not attend programs in the first place. This brief focuses on ways in which out-of-school time programs can improve the attendance and retention of children and youth in…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, School Recreational Programs, Enrollment Management, Outreach Programs
Fielding, Ruth; Harbon, Lesley – Babel, 2014
In 2009, the then State Minister for Education in New South Wales, Verity Firth, announced a plan to introduce bilingual education in four primary schools across the state for the National Asian Languages and Studies in School Program (NALSSP) priority languages: Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese and Korean. This paper reports on one aspect of a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Course Content, Program Implementation
Hamilton, Doug – Journal of International Education and Leadership, 2014
The latest national educational policy in the People's Republic of China calls for comprehensive educational reforms aimed at building the foundation for a modern learning society throughout China over the next 10 years. This research examines school leaders' efforts to implement school improvement initiatives that directly respond to the policy's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Urban Areas
Son, Jeong-Bae; Park, Sang-Soon – International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, 2014
For the last few decades, Australia has played a pivotal role in the supply of quality education to international students and other educational industries associated with them. In the higher education sector, in particular, international PhD student numbers continue to increase. However, the limited availability of resources for the students and…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Educational Quality, Foreign Students
Landry, Susan H.; Zucker, Tricia A.; Taylor, Heather B.; Swank, Paul R.; Williams, Jeffrey M.; Assel, Michael; Crawford, April; Huang, Weihua; Clancy-Menchetti, Jeanine; Lonigan, Christopher J.; Phillips, Beth M.; Eisenberg, Nancy; Spinrad, Tracy L.; de Viliers, Jill; de Viliers, Peter; Barnes, Marcia; Starkey, Prentice; Klein, Alice – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Despite reports of positive effects of high-quality child care, few experimental studies have examined the process of improving low-quality center-based care for toddler-age children. In this article, we report intervention effects on child care teachers' behaviors and children's social, social-emotional classroom activities (RECC).…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, At Risk Persons, Toddlers
Anilan, Hüseyin – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2014
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the holistic approach to Turkish grammar instruction in the first stage of primary education from the opinions and experiences of Turkish primary school teachers. This study is a qualitative research designed as a phenomenological study. The study participants were selected using maximum variation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Opinions, Grammar
Palmer Wolf, Dennie; Holochwost, Steven J.; Bar-Zemer, Tal; Dargan, Amanda; Selhorst, Anika – Journal for Learning through the Arts, 2014
The authors investigated the association between participation in Nations in Neighborhoods (NiN), a program of folk and traditional arts instruction, and achievement in English language arts in a sample of low-income elementary school students, many of whom were recent immigrants and English language learners. The program drew on the core…
Descriptors: Folk Culture, Program Effectiveness, Art Education, Language Arts
Patton, Sarah C.; Beaujean, A. Alexander; Benedict, Helen E. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
The developmental trajectory of body image dissatisfaction is unclear. Researchers have investigated sociocultural and developmental risk factors; however, the literature needs an integrative etiological model. In 2009, Cheng and Mallinckrodt proposed a dual mediation model, positing that poor-quality parental bonds, via the mechanisms of…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Body Composition, Anxiety, Friendship
Grant, Kristine S. Lewis; Lee, Vera J. – Qualitative Report, 2014
This manuscript provides an overview of the findings of an ongoing qualitative exploratory study that examined how preservice and inservice teachers in two different online education courses (ED 600 and ED 500) developed an understanding of the multifaceted issues that affect diverse learners. The study also investigated the instructors'…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Qualitative Research, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
