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Axelrod, Anne; Markow, Dana – Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 2000
"The Metropolitan Life Survey of the American Teacher, 2000: Are We Preparing Students for the 21st Century?" examines teachers', students', and parents' views on where students are headed and how prepared they will be to reach their future goals. This report is part of an annual series of national surveys conducted since 1984 for MetLife by…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), School Safety, Public School Teachers, National Surveys
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Eggly, Susan; Musial, Joseph; Smulowitz, Jack – English for Specific Purposes, 1999
A study of 99 international graduate medical students in an internal medicine program compared performance on two standardized English-language-proficiency tests with three measures of success: patient satisfaction; faculty and colleague evaluations; and scores on an objective test of medical knowledge. Patient satisfaction and faculty/colleague…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Allied Health Occupations Education, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
Mount Hood Community Coll., Gresham, OR. – 1991
This final performance report includes a third-party evaluation and a replication guide. The first section describes a project to develop and implement an articulated curriculum for grades 8-14 to prepare young people for entry into hospitality/tourism-related occupations. It discusses the refinement of existing models, pilot test, curriculum…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Articulation (Education), Attitude Change, Community Colleges
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. – 1990
The mission of the Student Training at Retail Stores (STARS) project was to develop and implement, with the collaboration of local business and the New York City Board of Education, a 3-semester program (January 1989 through June 1990) of intense occupational, vocational, and career education. Its purpose was to enhance job skills and secure…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Career Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Kahler, Alan A., Ed. – 1986
This proceedings volume contains a total of 39 papers. The following 28 selected titles are cited as those most clearly relevant to education: "A National Study of Teacher Educators and State Supervisors in Agricultural Education" (Foster, Horner); "A Profile of the Effective Vocational Agriculture Teacher" (Rheault, Miller); "Analysis of Needs:…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Educational Change, Educational Needs
Bayer, Alan E. – 1973
The "Teaching Faculty in Academe, 1972-1973" machine-readable data file (MRDF) resulted from a mail survey of faculty members in 301 institutions of higher education in the United States and represents a replication or follow-up of a previous survey conducted in 1968-1969. The purpose of the survey was to reassess college and university faculty in…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Community Colleges, Degrees (Academic)
Cushman, Harold R.; And Others – 1968
The project objectives were to (1) develop empirically tested guidelines and procedures for initiating, developing, and operating cooperative education programs for secondary students in off-farm agricultural occupations, (2) evaluate the effectiveness of cooperative work experience, and (3) determine the effect of the extent of work experience on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering, Comparative Analysis
Knopf, Lucille – 1975
Based on a larger longitudinal study, this document examines three nursing groups--those entering schools preparing registered nurses in 1962, 1965, and 1967. It describes and compares those who graduated and those who withdrew before graduation and examines the reasons why the students withdraw from both the students' and the program directors'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Allied Health Occupations Education, Attendance, Careers
Clark, Pat, Ed. – 2000
The two two-page briefs in this packet focus on nontraditional careers and nontraditional students and how to recruit and teach nontraditional students. "What Do We Know about Nontraditional Careers?" notes that men and women still tend to work in careers that are traditional for their sex, although the numbers of men and women choosing…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Attitudes, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
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Sedlak, Robert A.; Cartwright, G. Phillip – Change, 1997
Outlines lessons learned by the University of Wisconsin-Stout in implementing two distance education programs, a technology program using interactive television and a hospitality program using Lotus Notes to deliver courses. Topics discussed include program concept vs. technology as stimulus for innovation, program planning/administration,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Computer Networks
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Rosenholtz, Susan J.; Simpson, Carl – Sociology of Education, 1990
Examines 1,213 Tennessee elementary teachers' responses to 6 organizational indexes to determine effects of school organization and administrative support on teacher commitment. Finds novices needed organizational support for behavioral management and boundary tasks, midcareer teachers needed autonomy and empowerment, whereas veterans' commitment…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Cohort Analysis
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Popov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed.; Almeida, Patrícia Albergaria, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed.; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Chigisheva, Oksana, Ed. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2013
This volume contains papers submitted to the 11th Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES), held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 14-17 May 2013, and papers submitted to the 1st International Distance Partner Conference, organized by the International Research Centre "Scientific Cooperation,"…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Conference Papers, Comparative Education, Global Approach
Joyner, Randy L., Ed. – 1995
These proceedings contain 13 papers: "A Study of the Impact of a Community-Based School to Work Program for High School Youth" (Adler et al.); "A Comparison of Workforce Preparation Policies in the United States and Finland" (Lasonen, Frantz, Jr.); "The Association of Social Position to Restructuring Ability and Symbolic Orientation" (Fritz);…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations, Education Work Relationship
Corson, David, Ed.; Lawton, Stephen B., Ed. – 1993
These two volumes comprise the proceedings of a conference on links between education and work and the power relationships in the wider culture and in its social order. Each volume begins with a "Foreword" (Ronald C. Morrison), "Preface" (Arthur Kruger), "Introduction" (David Corson), and author notes. Volume I…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Community Education, Education Work Relationship
Goldsmith, Diane J.; And Others – 1991
A total of 146 students enrolled in 21 programs in 11 vocational-technical (VT) schools participated in a 9-month qualitative study. Focus group interviews were conducted throughout Connecticut; all interviewees were students enrolled in shops nontraditional for their gender. Females reported four reasons for attending a VT school: family legacy,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Classroom Techniques, Course Selection (Students), Educational Discrimination
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