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Robyn Kelton; Irina Tenis – McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership at National Louis University, 2024
The early childhood education care (ECEC) practitioner landscape is complex and encompasses many roles including center-based and school-based administrative, teaching, and support staff as well as home-based unregulated child care family child care (FCC) providers and home-based regulated (e.g., registered or licensed) FCC providers who…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Caregivers, Child Care Centers, Family Environment
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Taylor, Ann; Puchner, Laurel D.; Powell, Margaret B.; Harris, Valorie; Marshall, Rick – Educational Action Research, 2012
Three teacher educators worked at a US community college with two adult education staff on a grant-supported project bridging high school dropouts from adult education to employment. The teacher educators' apparently simple task of facilitating grant participants' engagement with action research became confusingly challenging. The consultants…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Action Research, Dropouts, Adult Education
Kalchik, Stephanie; Oertle, Kathleen – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2010
According to Sears (1982), career development is "the total constellation of economic, sociological, psychological, educational, physical, and chance factors that combine to shape one's career." This definition was advanced by the Illinois Career Development Task Force that engaged in more than a year of deliberation. Career development…
Descriptors: National Standards, Career Development, Program Evaluation, Program Descriptions
Ellis, Joseph R.; Mathews, Gwendolyn J. – 1982
Professional role performance difficulties experienced by 23 first year itinerant specialists in the field of special education were studied in Illinois public schools (excluding Chicago). An itinerant specialist is a teacher with specialized training in a particular disability who provides services to students on a homebound basis, in a hospital…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Itinerant Teachers, Role Perception, Special Education Teachers
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Robins, Michael; Phillippe, David E. – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 1988
A survey of financial aid directors at all two-year colleges in four states measured differences between the administrators' desired and actual role functions. Analysis and implications of the results are presented. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Comparative Analysis, Expectation, Role Perception
Camp, Kenneth L. – 1973
This study was directed toward determining if uniformity existed in the role of the fine arts administrative supervisor and the fine arts program in the Illinois public junior colleges. Answers to the following questions were sought: (1) Is there a uniform interpretation of terminology among the fine arts administrative supervisors to describe…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Curriculum, Curriculum Evaluation, Doctoral Dissertations
Wray, Ralph D.; Haynes, Thomas – 1992
Findings of a study that examined the roles of business representatives and business educators in establishing collaborative relationships in the 1990s, as perceived by selected secondary and postsecondary business instructors in Illinois, are presented in this paper. An expert panel of 25 secondary and postsecondary instructors participated in…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Business Responsibility, Educational Cooperation, Partnerships in Education
Kerr, Elizabeth E.; And Others – 1969
Data were collected through instruments and personal interviews from coordinators and faculty of 45 practical nurse education programs (16 in Iowa and 29 in Illinois) to determine characteristics related to student selection criteria and procedures, organizational structure, curriculum, and opinions and perceptions of faculty members. Comparison…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Allied Health Occupations Education, Curriculum, Educational Programs
Midgley, Carol; And Others – 1990
There is growing recognition that elementary, junior, and senior high schools are different organizations with different school cultures and different leadership needs. School-level differences in principal leadership behavior, student and teacher perceptions of the school culture, and student and teacher commitment were assessed using data from…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Styles
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Bradtmueller, Weldon; Egan, James – Journal of the Association for the Study of Perception, 1981
Seventy-one elementary and middle school principals in northern Illinois responded to a questionnaire on their backgrounds in reading instruction, their preferences for certain approaches, their duties in relation to the reading program, and their feelings of competence in these matters. Responses are collated by school size. (SJL)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Educational Practices
Hallinger, Philip; And Others – 1991
After identifying the aspects of classroom life that school restructuring might influence, this paper summarizes findings on school principals' perceptions concerning the potential effects of fundamental school reform. Because so little is known about principals' views on restructuring, an exploratory study employing qualitative methodology…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Beliefs, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Winking, Debbie L.; DeStefano, Lizanne; Rusch, Frank R. – 1988
The document describes the role of the job coach as the key facilitator of community employment for mentally retarded persons. Three case studies evaluate three programs associated with the Illinois Supported Employment Program to identify the real and perceived duties of the job coach. An introductory article by Frank Rusch and others is titled:…
Descriptors: Adults, Compensation (Remuneration), Demography, Employer Attitudes
Scott, Thomas R. – 1975
The study investigated the role activities of the community college president. Data were collected from a questionnaire distributed among the 48 community colleges in Illinois in 1975. In all, 312 persons at 29 participating colleges completed useable questionnaires. The data indicated that: (1) the present college president's perceived role…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adult Education, College Faculty, Community Colleges
Triandis, Harry C.; And Others – 1971
This exploratory study was directed at an examination of role perceptions among four groups of subjects, two white and two black. The black samples are composed of adult hardcore unemployed men and adolescent boys in a special high school training program. One of the white samples also consisted of adolescents in the same program; the other was…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Youth, College Students, Cultural Influences
Weldon, David E.; And Others – 1974
The research reported here is an exploration of the effects of Culture Assimilator Training. A procedure emphasizing behavior with respect to hardcore unemployed blacks was utilized for the training. White male university students were randomly assigned to a trained or untrained group. After the training, subjects were placed in a situation…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Black Influences
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