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European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, Thessaloniki (Greece). – 2002
The views of users of e-learning in Europe and elsewhere were examined through seven online surveys that were posted on the interactive World Wide Web site called The European Training Village. The surveys examined e-learning users' views regarding the following topics: technology-supported learning; e-mail in e-learning; trainers' skills for…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Basic Skills
Brooks, Greg; Davies, Rachael; Duckett, Laura; Hutchison, Dougal; Kendall, Sally; Wilkin, Anne – 2001
The progress made by adults in dedicated mainstream basic skills provision in England and Wales and factors associated with students' progress were examined. Of the 2,135 students from 71 colleges of further education and local education authorities who took the reading pretest, 1,224 (57%) took the reading posttest. Writing scripts were received…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
Lowe, Graham S.; Schellenberg, Grant – 2001
The Changing Employment Relationships Project examined the importance of good employment relationships for workers, employers, and public policy. A nationally representative sample of 2,500 employed Canadians was surveyed, and 8 focus groups were conducted. The research findings were analyzed to explain the multidimensional nature of the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Collegiality, Compliance (Legal), Contracts
Ratcliffe, Ella B. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1936
This compilation of scholarships and fellowships is the second which has been made by the United States Office of Education. The first compilation was published in 1931 and treated the subject in a manner similar to that used in the present bulletin. Information of this type, however, needs frequent revision, as changes are constantly taking place…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Surveys, School Statistics, Public Colleges
Gaumnitz, W.H. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1929
The training, the tenure, and the professional status of teachers and other professional workers in the rural schools of America are to a large degree circumscribed by the rewards offered, both financial and social. It has long been recognized in a general way that such rewards in rural schools are meager in comparison with those in urban schools…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Public School Teachers, Educational Trends, Comparative Analysis
Greenleaf, Walter J. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1929
By the Federal Land Grant Act of July 2, 1862, each State received a grant of land for the purpose of endowing at least one college of agriculture and mechanic arts. The second Morrill Act of 1890 provided for an annual appropriation to each State which was increased by the Nelson amendment of 1907. Since 1911 each State has received $50,000…
Descriptors: Agricultural Colleges, Land Grant Universities, Grants, Vocational Education
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1918
At a meeting of the Arizona School Official's Association held in April, 1915, a resolution was passed instructing the president of the association to appoint a committee to arrange for an educational survey of the State. Members of the bureau staff visited schools in 12 of the 14 counties, and in 22 of the 24 cities employing city…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Politics of Education, Urban Schools, Surveys
Obourn, Ellsworth S.; Koelsche, Charles L. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1960
This publication continues the annual series of bulletins begun in 1950 as a cooperative undertaking between the National Association for Research in Science Teaching and the Office of Education. The present bulletin summarizes and interprets the research in science education from July 1956 to July 1957. The improvement of teaching in science, as…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Research, Science Education, Science Instruction
Ngok, Lee; Lam, Agnes – 1994
This book, which is based on several first-hand studies, provides an overview of professional and continuing education in Hong Kong and examines selected issues in the field. The following chapters are included: "Preface" (Lee Ngok, Agnes Lam); "Introduction" (Lee Ngok, Agnes Lam); "The Role of Government in Human Resource…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Consortia
Eddy, Helen M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
The handling of this survey was intrusted to Dr. Leonard V. Koos, of the University of Chicago. With great skill he has, working on a full-time basis during his free quarters from the University of Chicago and part time during other quarters, brought it to a conclusion. This manuscript was prepared by Helen M. Eddy, associate professor of romance…
Descriptors: Educational History, Course Content, Curriculum Guides, Questionnaires
Pierce, Anne E.; Hilpert, Robert S. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
This is a study in the two fields of the fine arts which have largely found their way into the curriculum of the secondary schools during the past 30 years. Anne E. Pierce, associate in music at the University of Iowa, made the study of music. Robert S. Elbert, assistant professor of art education, University of Minnesota, made the study of art…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, National Surveys, School Statistics
Hanson, Lincoln F. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963
This bulletin lists materials available in the fall of 1963 to assist educators in their selections of programmed instruction materials, and updates the inaugural issue, "Programs '62." Since the 1962 edition provided a number of first analyses of programmed material available, some of the present statistical data have been related to last year's…
Descriptors: Educational History, Programmed Instructional Materials, Guides, Teaching Methods
Education Service Center Region 2, Corpus Christi, TX. – 1984
This volume contains materials for use in conducting an articulation workshop to train secondary and postsecondary educators to promote equal access to vocational education. Addressed in the individual sections of the guide are the following topics: inequalities in the workplace, the role of articulation in promoting equal access, outreach, career…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Articulation (Education), Attitude Change, Career Exploration
Van Horn, Barbara; Kassab, Cathy; Grinder, Elisabeth – 2002
Pennsylvania's family literacy programs were subjected to a statewide evaluation in 1999-2000. Data were collected through focus groups with parents, a survey of staff in community agencies and organizations, and analyses of program data and the findings of selected assessments administered to adults and children involved in the program.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills
Aldridge, Fiona – 2001
A representative sample of 4,000 adults aged 16 and over in all three nations of Great Britain were surveyed regarding the languages they currently speak, their current participation in language learning, and their future language-learning intentions. The following were among the key findings: (1) 29% of adults can speak one foreign language, and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bilingualism, Blacks, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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