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Loeb, Helen M. – 1982
Northeastern University (Boston) offers an internship program to train technical writers for the computer industry. The program is designed for 20 individuals with bachelor's degrees and writing experience. Students attend classes at night, taking one computer science course and one graduate level writing course per academic quarter. The computer…
Descriptors: Evening Programs, Higher Education, Internship Programs, Job Skills
Hunter, Susanne M. – 1983
This study evaluated the multi-use concept and impact of 30 microcomputers in 2 laboratories of 15 microcomputers each, which were placed in 8 Vancouver, British Columbia, elementary schools for 5 weeks each between January and June 1983. Approximately 2,780 elementary students and 120 elementary teachers, 300 district teacher inservice…
Descriptors: Community Education, Elementary Education, Evening Programs, Foreign Countries
Download full textMILLER, HARRY L. – 1963
WHAT TEACHERS ACTUALLY DO TO LIBERALIZE THEIR VOCATIONAL COURSES WAS STUDIED IN ORDER TO EXAMINE THE POSSIBILITY OF EXPANDING LIBERAL ADULT EDUCATION BY INTRODUCING LIBERAL GOALS INTO VOCATIONAL COURSES. QUESTIONNAIRES WERE RECEIVED FROM 118 TEACHERS IN EVENING COLLEGES AND EXTENSION DIVISIONS WHO TAUGHT (1) BUSINESS COURSES SUCH AS MANAGEMENT AND…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Business Education, Engineering, Evening Programs
KRATT, EDWIN C.; AND OTHERS – 1965
PRE- AND POST-TESTING WAS DONE WITH CHILDREN WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE PRESCHOOL PROGRAM. THE CHANGES IN IQ SUPPORTED THE HYPOTHESIS THAT PRESCHOOL TRAINING PROVIDED THESE CHILDREN WITH A BETTER BACKGROUND FOR SUCCESS IN REGULAR SCHOOL GRADES. UNDERACHIEVING JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS PARTICIPATED IN THE PRESCHOOL PROGRAM. THEY WERE DIVIDED INTO A…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Counseling Services, Disadvantaged, Discovery Processes
NEYLAN, MARGARET S.; VERNER, COOLIE – 1966
A STUDY WAS MADE OF ATTENDANCE IN ADULT EVENING CLASSES IN A BRITISH COLUMBIA URBAN SCHOOL. CLASS RECORDS FROM THE YEAR 1963-64 WERE STUDIED, THE 266 COURSES (WITH 5240 REGISTRANTS) VARYING IN LENGTH AND SUBJECT CONTENT. SUBJECT CATEGORIES WERE -- ACADEMIC (33 SESSIONS LONG), A REPLICATION OF A PREADULT LEARNING SITUATION, WHICH PROVIDED CREDIT…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Adult Dropouts, Adult Vocational Education, Attendance Patterns
HEINBERG, SYLVESTER – 1966
THIS STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO DETERMINE (1) WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE PART-TIME INSTRUCTIONAL STAFF IN EVENING PROGRAMS, (2) HOW THE STAFF IS AND SHOULD BE SUPERVISED AND EVALUATED, AND (3) HOW TO DEVELOP RECOMMENDED PRACTICES FOR EVALUATION AND IMPROVEMENT. ADMINISTRATORS FROM 63 CALIFORNIA JUNIOR COLLEGES REPORTED CURRENT…
Descriptors: College Administration, Doctoral Dissertations, Evening Programs, Part Time Faculty
Smith, Jack E. – 1974
A study was undertaken in the Spring of 1974 to evaluate the effectiveness of the administrative structure of the instructional program of East Los Angeles College (ELAC) and to make recommendations for change. Since ELAC was founded 29 years ago each new discipline has been established as a separate department; at the time of the study 27 such…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrators, Centralization, Cluster Grouping
Alworth, Robert M. – 1975
Los Angeles Community College District projects an enrollment of 144,030 by 1979, an increase of 16.5 percent over the fall 1974 figure of 123,662. A 20.4 percent increase in evening enrollment is anticipated, compared to a 13.7 percent growth in day enrollment. Associated with expansion of the evening program are projected increases in the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Average Daily Attendance, Day Programs, Enrollment Projections
Gran, James R. – 1968
The evaluation of the Jackson County Adult Evening High School Completion Program was based on pre- and posttests of 30 teachers who responded to questions arranged in subject areas. Returns showed that: (1) Most teachers do not recognize a need for inservice training; (2) Coordination of the course study in English classes, help on methods and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Evening Programs, Pretests Posttests, Program Evaluation
Clarke, R. F. – 1968
The Department of Extra-Mural Studies of Makerere University College, Uganda, experimented with developing correspondence courses in several subjects which were published in the weekly newspaper "The People" during 1967. Three 30-week courses (Communication, Elements of Government, and Economics) were included in a special supplement to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Correspondence Study, Course Evaluation, Course Organization
Porter, Lee – 1970
This questionnaire survey investigated how Syracuse University faculty view their continuing education unit (University College), examined differences in their attitudes toward continuing education, and recommended action designed to improve attitudes. Usable questionnaires were returned by 243 persons. On the basis of 35 statements relating to…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Attitudes
Selden, William; Nichols, Natalie P. – Balance Sheet, 1977
Expanding the adult business education program, course organization, business courses, rationale for adult evening programs in a high school, and suggestions for teaching adult evening students are among the topics presented by the authors. (MF)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students, Adult Vocational Education
Virtala, Mirja – Adult Education in Finland, 1984
The author discusses the promotion of basic general education as a main area of adult education, the adult population's level in basic general education and the desire to study school courses, the procedure for studying and passing school examinations, studying for and passing school courses, and the future of Finnish education. (CT)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Correspondence Schools
Farrington, Frederic Ernest – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1916
In 1910 in the United States there were more than thirteen million foreign-born men, women, and children. More than four-fifths of those who arrived in that year were from southern and eastern Europeans countries and other countries in which the percentage of illiteracy is very large. Nearly three million of these foreign-born men, women, and…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Illiteracy, Compulsory Education, Access to Education
Hirsch, William F. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
The Young Men's Christian Association (Y.M.C.A.) was one of the pioneers in the development of evening education for employed men and boys. The beginnings of this work go back more than half a century, the first work of this kind being reported in 1866. During the last decade of the nineteenth century, broad foundations were laid for the future…
Descriptors: Credits, Vocational Education, Males, Textbooks
