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Luiselli, James K., Ed. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2006
Challenging behavior is a significant barrier to communication, education, and positive social relationships. This practical book helps psychologists, educators, rehabilitation specialists, and other professionals recognize and address the causes of these problems in individuals with developmental disabilities--and resolve even the most difficult…
Descriptors: Psychologists, Intervention, Health Conditions, Developmental Disabilities
Foster, Jocelyn – 1984
This collection of library documents, which illustrates current techniques for conducting user studies in order to facilitate specific public services planning and priority-setting efforts at the member libraries of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), contains excerpts from: (1) four general user studies conducted at the University of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Library Automation
O'Neil, Rosanna M., Comp. – 1994
Total Quality Management (TQM) brings together the best aspects of organizational excellence by driving out fear, offering customer-driven products and services, doing it right the first time by eliminating error, and maintaining inventory control without waste. Libraries are service organizations which are constantly trying to improve service.…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Hospital Libraries, Library Administration, Library Services
Schwartz, Lita Linzer, Ed. – 1994
At mid-life, almost every marriage undergoes a crisis, but most people are looking for a way to get through this crisis, and not for a way out of the marriage. This monograph examines the basic issues surrounding mid-life divorce. Several different perspectives are represented in this collection of articles as various clinicians discuss the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Counseling Techniques, Divorce, Family Counseling
Testa, Alec M. – 1996
The DATAWave is a bi-weekly publication that is designed to inform the campus community and broader constituencies on assessment issues and practices at Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU). The first issue of this fourth volume covers survey results about the effectiveness of the ENMU Assessment Resource Office (ARO) and presents a fall preview…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Freshmen, College Graduates, Cultural Pluralism
Miller, Melvin D., Ed.; And Others – 1979
Six articles on issues in vocational education are presented in this booklet. The first article, "A Need for Articulation in Vocational Education," by Joseph Semak, discusses different approaches to the problem of articulation. Ruth Volz, in "Vocational Education for Our Ageless Society," examines the need for developing programs and training to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Articulation (Education), Cost Effectiveness, Educational Planning
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1978
Resulting from the Association of Research Libraries' (ARL) 1975 survey on user services, this kit presents documentation on and discusses developments in physical access services--services which facilitate the actual delivery of information sources to the user--including circulation, interlibrary loan, book delivery, and new media services. As…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Needs, Interlibrary Loans
Sandhu, Daya Singh, Ed. – 2002
This book is divided into five major sections that focus on the various perspectives, needs, and concerns of employees in the workplace. Chapters include: (1) Work: Meaning, Mattering, and Job Satisfaction (K. M. Connolly); (2) Spirituality in the Workplace: An Overview (E. J. Looby and D. S. Sandhu); (3) Developing the Whole Employee: Some…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Counseling, Counseling Theories, Disabilities
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Fain, Gerald S., Ed.; And Others – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 1983
Twelve articles describe developments in the field of employee health and recreation. Establishing programs, designing facilities, evaluating program effectiveness, and relating participation to productivity are highlighted, and program philosophy, participation of the handicapped, and legal responsibility for injuries are discussed. (PP)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Employer Employee Relationship, Facility Requirements, Health Activities
Wehman, Paul, Ed.; And Others – 1997
This manual includes articles that address many of the major issues affecting supported employment programs for individuals with severe disabilities. Articles discuss current trends in service delivery, the experiences of local community employment agencies, issues involved in funding supported employment, natural support implementation…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Delivery Systems, Education Work Relationship
Coleman, David D., Ed.; And Others – 1990
This resource guide for new student affairs professionals reflects on the socialization process experienced by new staff members and offers senior student affairs staff members and graduate preparation program faculty insights to assist them in designing programs for preservice students and new full-time staff appointees. "The New Professional"…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Choice, Career Ladders, Competence
Lea, H. Daniel, Ed.; Leibowitz, Zandy B., Ed. – 1992
This book contains 23 chapters organized into seven sections that center around the following themes: (1) theories and concepts; (2) strategies and methods; (3) target populations; (4) settings; (5) training programs; (6) evaluation and accountability; and (7) future trends. The following papers are included: "Adult Development Theories: Ways to…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Career Change, Career Counseling
Houston, W. Robert; And Others – 1990
This document is a compilation of 11 separate reports on the Houston Independent School District (Texas) support program, 1989-90, which paired over 300 first-year teachers with mentors who usually taught the same subject or grade level, were assigned to the same school, were experienced, agreed to work with beginning teachers, and were paid a…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
2000
Three presentations are provided from Symposium 33, Work Motivation, of the Academy of Human Resource Development (HRD) 2000 Conference Proceedings. "An Attitudinal Examination of the Role of HRD in Voluntary Turnover in Public Service Organizations" (Kenneth R. Bartlett, William R. McKinney) compares public service managers who voluntarily left…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Human Resources, Intervention, Job Performance
LaPointe, Michelle, Ed.; Darling-Hammond, Linda, Ed.; Meyerson, Debra, Ed. – Stanford Educational Leadership Institute, 2007
In 2003, with funding from The Wallace Foundation, a national team of researchers organized by Stanford University and The Finance Project set out to find and examine a set of exemplary pre- and in-service professional development programs for principals, along with the policy contexts in which they operate. The purpose of the study was to…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Educational Change, Case Studies, Best Practices
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