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Granger, Noelle; Black, Alison; Miller, Jane – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2007
The purpose of the study was to examine how reader response journals followed by classroom discussion ("Reader Response Plus") contributed to students' reading comprehension and to their attitudes toward reading. The study was conducted in a rural school in upstate New York. The twelfth grade class that participated in the study…
Descriptors: Reader Response, High School Seniors, Grade 12, Disabilities
Duck, Greg; And Others – 1988
A 1985 mail survey of 97 rural schools and 53 coastal (urban/suburban) schools in Queensland, Australia, investigated teacher characteristics, problems, and needs. Respondents included 504 rural teachers, 215 rural parents, 405 coastal teachers, and 179 coastal parents. The results confirm many previous findings about teaching in rural Australia.…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Mail Surveys
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Sunal, Cynthia Szymanski – International Journal of Social Education, 1992
Presents study results of teaching social studies in a rural environment. Addresses size of school, teacher preparation in social studies, teacher orientation toward teaching content, and achievement scores. Concludes that teachers in rural schools have more positive opinions of their students but need additional teaching materials and inservice…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Research, Ethnic Stereotypes, Inservice Teacher Education
Silver, Sandra – 1986
A questionnaire was developed in order to discover the aspects of P.L. 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975) that prove both most and least problematic for rural special education cooperatives. A cooperative was defined as any interdistrict administrative arrangement that provides specific services to member school…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Cooperative Programs, Educational Cooperation, Educational Finance
Vaughan, Gary L. – 1986
Written in Spanish, this manual is designed to assist management consultants in working with small-scale entrepreneurs in developing countries. Addressed in an overview of the small-scale enterprise (SSE) are the role of the SSE in Third World development, problems of SSEs, and target firms. The second chapter deals with various forms of…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Business Administration, Case Studies, Check Lists
Vaughan, Gary L. – 1986
Written in French, this manual is designed to assist management consultants in working with small-scale entrepreneurs in developing countries. Addressed in an overview of the small-scale enterprise (SSE) are the role of the SSE in Third World development, problems of SSEs, and target firms. The second chapter deals with various forms of management…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Business Administration, Case Studies, Check Lists
Vaughan, Gary L. – 1981
This manual is designed to assist management consultants in working with small-scale entrepreneurs in developing countries. Addressed in an overview of the small-scale enterprise (SSE) are: the role of the SSE in third world development, problems of SSEs, and target firms. The second chapter deals with various forms of management assistance to…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Business Administration, Case Studies, Check Lists
Rio Salado Community Coll., AZ. – 1985
A project was conducted to deliver general educational development (GED) instruction through an audio teleconferencing system to adult students in Arizona. Using a previously existing audio teleconferencing system owned by Rio Salado Community College in Phoenix, Arizona, project staff developed a series of credit and noncredit teleconferencing…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Daily Living Skills
Roche, Ken; Cummings, Judy – 1993
This guide, which is intended for vocational teachers interested in integrating vocational and academic instruction, documents and discusses the processes involved in the development of the Academic Vocational Integration Project (AVIP) at Franklin County Technical School (FCTS), which is located in a rural Massachusetts county with a large…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Career Choice, Carpentry