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Reese, Ryan F. – Environmental Education Research, 2018
An environmental education (EE) consortium located in the pacific northwest United States coalesced an external evaluation team to research its K-5 EE programming. The purpose of this article is to describe one phase of this program evaluation process including the exploration of adult stakeholder perceptions of EE programming accessed by 4th…
Descriptors: Forestry, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Economically Disadvantaged
Powell, M.; Hatch, M. A.; Fians, E.; Shinert, A.; Richie, D. – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2016
Like many colleges funded by the U.S. Department of Labor's TAACCCT program, the goal of the Northeast Resiliency Consortium (NRC) (a Round Three grantee) was to enhance the capacity of colleges to accelerate learning, ensure that students attain industry-recognized credentials, foster innovative employer partnerships, use new technologies, and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Resilience (Psychology), Labor Force Development, Consortia
Herman, Joan; Linn, Robert – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2013
Two consortia, the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced) and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), are currently developing comprehensive, technology-based assessment systems to measure students' attainment of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The consequences of the consortia…
Descriptors: Consortia, Student Evaluation, Educational Testing, Academic Standards
Paris, David C. – Council of Independent Colleges, 2011
From the fall of 2008 through the spring of 2011, 47 colleges and universities, organized and supported by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC), administered the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) to their students. The CLA is a test of critical thinking, analytic reasoning, problem solving, and written communication developed by the…
Descriptors: Campuses, Critical Thinking, Consortia, College Faculty
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Ekman, Richard; Pelletier, Stephen – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2008
In recent years, an acrimonious debate has broken out in higher-education circles about institutional accountability and performance. Efforts to alter federal policy in particular have been flashpoints for often heated discourse about the ways that colleges and universities could--and should--demonstrate their effectiveness to skeptical outsiders.…
Descriptors: Consortia, Thinking Skills, Higher Education, Accountability
NCSSSMST Journal, 2009
Keystone Science School and Keystone Center for Science and Public Policy programs blend learning in the natural world with developing mediation and conflict resolution skills. Since 2004, these two divisions of The Keystone Center in Colorado have partnered with the National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and…
Descriptors: Fuels, Obesity, Conflict Resolution, Consortia