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Ross, John A. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2008
Educational needs assessments (hereafter NAs) are inattentive to cost considerations and are frequently dominated by elite stakeholder groups. In this article I make a case for adopting a cost-utility approach, illustrating the argument with data generated in a NA of central library services in a Canadian school district. Using survey data from…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Program Evaluation, Needs Assessment, Library Services
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Powell, Billroy – Higher Education Research and Development, 2008
This paper reports the findings of a study conducted on stakeholders' perception of who influences the decision-making processes in Ontario's public postsecondary education institutions. The study identified and interviewed representatives of those stakeholder groups that are frequently written about as the main forces behind decision making in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Qualitative Research, Public Colleges, Access to Information
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Daniel, Mark; Cargo, Margaret; Marks, Elisabeth; Paquet, Catherine; Simmons, David; Williams, Margaret; Rowley, Kevin; O'Dea, Kerin – Social Indicators Research, 2009
This study reports on the development and evaluation of a rating tool to assess the scientific utility and cultural appropriateness of community-level indicators for application with Indigenous populations. Indicator criteria proposed by the U.S. Institute of Medicine were culturally adapted through reviewing the literature and consultations with…
Descriptors: Research Design, Indigenous Populations, Public Health, Content Validity
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Matanga, Zephania; Freeze, Rick; Duchesne, Hermann; Nyachoti, Martin – Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2008
A novel participatory workshop methodology was adopted in this qualitative study of the intersection of disability and diversity in the lives of individuals. Social service recipients, parents, educators, service providers, and policy makers in three Canadian cities were conjoined in daylong discussions designed to investigate if the realities of…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Disabilities, Workshops, Foreign Countries
Desmond, Snoeks, Ed.; Elfert, Maren, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (NJ1), 2008
Family literacy is a form of intergenerational learning that is based on the fundamental connection and interaction between the education of children, young people and adults. The family--in its broader sense--builds the foundation for lifelong learning. This book was published to help promote literacy by raising the understanding and awareness of…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Adult Literacy, Lifelong Learning, Community Education
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Fredua-Kwarteng, Eric – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2008
This paper uses Nunavut's compulsory schooling policy as a case study to discuss the role that cultural difference plays in policy development and implementation. The central argument of the paper is that the implementation and sustainability of the compulsory schooling policy would be fraught with enormous problems, given its colonialist,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Community Schools, Eskimos, Cultural Differences
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Planinac, Lynn; Leatherdale, Scott T.; Manske, Steve R.; Arbour, Meghan – Educational Research and Reviews, 2008
Youth smoking and physical inactivity are significant public health issues, with implications for both health and education stakeholders, as school-based policies and programs have the potential to reach a broad population of youth to address these issues. Knowledge exchange tools designed around comprehensive school-level data collection systems…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Physical Activities, Public Health, Child Health
Group of Eight (NJ1), 2010
Universities have much to contribute to the improvement of health delivery, research, and teaching/learning. In progressing health reform, the Government should be mindful of the need to: (1) strengthen high quality medical research; (2) promote translation of research to teaching, population health and health services; and (3) address Health…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Services, Stakeholders, Educational Change
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Raptis, Helen; Bowker, Samantha – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2010
Following the 1949 recommendations of the Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Commons (SJC), the Canadian government shifted away from a policy of segregated to integrated schooling for Aboriginal children. This paper examines the minutes and proceedings of the SJC. Fewer than 10% of the briefs presented to the SJC called for integration…
Descriptors: Democracy, Canada Natives, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations
Alberta Education, 2008
Alberta Education conducts a set of annual telephone surveys to obtain feedback from education system stakeholders regarding their perceptions of Alberta's education system. Respondents for the survey include senior high school students, parents of children in the K-12 education system, parents of children with severe special needs, teachers in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Telephone Surveys, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, 2009
This report presents the findings of the formative evaluation of the Understanding the Early Years (UEY) Initiative. The evaluation was conducted to examine issues of implementation and design, early progress in achieving immediate objectives, and issues related to accountability. The evaluation team was also asked to provide preliminary guidance…
Descriptors: Evidence, Summative Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Technical Assistance
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Turcotte, Sandrine; Hamel, Christine – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2008
Remote Networked Schools (RNS) is an initiative by the Quebec Ministry of Education, Leisure and Sports (MELS) to investigate solutions that the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) can offer for the preservation of small rural schools in Quebec, Canada. The implementation of RNS mobilized then--as it still does now--the local…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Small Schools, Rural Schools
Auerbach, Susan, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
School leaders are increasingly called upon to pursue meaningful partnerships with families and community groups, yet many leaders are unprepared to meet the challenges of partnerships, to cross cultural boundaries, or to be accountable to the community. Alliances are needed among educators, families, and community groups that value relationship…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Parent Participation, Educational Change, Parent School Relationship
Alberta Education, 2008
In the spring of 2000, Alberta Education (previously Alberta Learning) appointed the Review Committee on Outcomes (RCO) to consult with Albertans to find out what they expected from the K-12 education system and how these expectations are being met. This report presents the main findings of the 2008 Satisfaction with Education in Alberta Surveys…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Objectives, Telephone Surveys, Foreign Countries
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Cargo, Margaret; Delormier, Treena; Levesque, Lucie; Horn-Miller, Kahente; McComber, Alex; Macaulay, Ann C. – Health Education Research, 2008
Democratic or equal participation in decision making is an ideal that community and academic stakeholders engaged in participatory research strive to achieve. This ideal, however, may compete with indigenous peoples' right to self-determination. Study objectives were to assess the perceived influence of multiple community (indigenous) and academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Leaders, Participatory Research, Indigenous Populations
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