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Logsdon, Patti; Samudre, Mark; Kleinert, Harold – Human Development Institute, 2018
Research shows that making friends can be especially hard for students with significant disabilities. Peer support arrangements and peer networks are evidence-based interventions that involve identifying and equipping a group of peers to provide ongoing support to individual students with significant disabilities in or outside of the classroom.…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Peer Groups, Networks, Intervention
Guskey, Thomas R.; Swan, Gerry M.; Jung, Lee Ann – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
Nearly all states have standards for student learning and they have assessment programs to measure students' proficiency on those standards. But schools within each state nonetheless are left to develop their own standards-based student report cards as the primary means of communicating information about students' performance. To address the…
Descriptors: Report Cards, Student Evaluation, Academic Standards, State Standards
Academy for Educational Development, 2012
The Academy for Educational Development (AED) sent a research team to Western Kentucky University (WKU) on June 19-20, 2008 to conduct interviews with individuals who play important roles in the university's teacher preparation program (see Appendix A). These interviews, along with additional documentation provided by WKU and identified by the AED…
Descriptors: Mentors, Internet, Computer Assisted Instruction, Pilot Projects
Branscome, James – Appalachia, 1969
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Educational Programs, Leadership Training, Pilot Projects
BINKLEY, HAROLD – 1967
THE PURPOSE OF THE CENTER WAS TO DEMONSTRATE WHAT COULD AND SHOULD BE DONE IN ESTABLISHING AND OPERATING A TRAINING PROGRAM IN AGRICULTURAL SUPPLY SALES AND SERVICE. TEACHER EDUCATORS, A LOCAL ADVISORY GROUP, AND THE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION ASSISTED IN OPERATING THE CENTER. DURING THE 2-YEAR PERIOD, 165 TEACHERS OF AGRICULTURE, 28 SCHOOL…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Supply Occupations, Demonstration Centers, High Schools
Adams, Kay A.; McCaslin, N. L. – 1976
Local and regional advisory councils can provide vocational programs with unique and essential evaluation information. Most advisory councils are asked to review components of vocational programs about which they have limited experience and/or knowledge, such as philosophy, objectives, and management. There are several, often overlooked areas in…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Guidelines
Binkley, Harold – 1967
The joint supervisory and teacher education staffs developed criteria and surveyed needed agricultural competencies as a basis for course building. Teacher educators developed unit outlines for pilot programs in off-farm agricultural occupations conducted in Lafayette, Shelby County, Daviess County, and Reidland high schools. A quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Supply Occupations, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups