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Magi Educational Services, Inc., Port Chester, NY. – 1979
The report presents an objective third-party assessment of the WALKABOUT program. Now in its third year in Northern Westchester County, New York, this program offers an optional learning environment for Grade 12 students in which the skills and self confidence needed to be effective adults are nurtured. In order to attain WALKABOUT program goals,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Communications, Counselor Attitudes, Educational Environment
Copen, Peter; And Others – 1980
The Walkabout program is an optional senior-year educational experience in which New York high school students can acquire the basic skills and confidence to take charge of their lives and contribute to the world. The year-long program is divided into 5 "challenge environments": wilderness (5 weeks); applied academics (18 weeks of health…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Communication (Thought Transfer), Counselor Role, Educational Environment
Fivars, Grace; Gosnell, Doris – 1966
Intended as a text and a reference work, the book emphasizes the development of broad institutional objectives, and covers in detail curriculum and course development, selection of learning experiences, and evaluation of nursing behavior. All subjects are approached through the critical incident technique, which presents material in brief case…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Books, Case Studies, Clinical Experience
Geer, Blanche, Ed. – 1972
The collection of readings reflects some of the findings of a five year cooperative research project entitled Educational Experiences of Non-College Youth that focused on four areas of occupational training: (1) apprentices, (2) private trade schools, (3) training courses in the armed forces and (4) on-the-job training. Control of training, the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Vocational Education, Apprenticeships, Career Development
Herman, Lisa; Ige, Gabriel; Duryea, Licia; McCarver, Patricia; Good, Kyle – 1999
This collaborative paper, created online by Ph.D students in a three-year cohort learning program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, explores the development and felt experience of distance learning. The purpose is to give a sense of how it feels to learn online and to describe the essence of learning. Results of this collaborative…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Education, Distance Education
Jewett, Arno – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1957
The purpose of this bulletin is to help teachers, supervisors, administrators, and other educators improve the quality of reading done by junior high school pupils. Interest in ways to teach developmental and remedial reading in the junior high school is nationwide. Junior high school principals and teachers of various subjects are particularly…
Descriptors: Remedial Programs, Reading Programs, Reading Improvement, Standardized Tests
Somerville, Mary M.; Schader, Barbara; Huston, Malia E. – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2005
Library leaders promote reconsideration of organisational purposes, processes, and relationships at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California, USA. Systems thinking, fortified by information literacy, informs workplace changes that provide learning experiences transferable to better alignment of library outcomes with…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Information Literacy, Leadership, Foreign Countries
Chu, K. C.; Leung, Dennis – Journal of Technology Studies, 2003
In the current economic situation, most academic institutions would like to plan new courses to increase enrollment. Often, these changes do not follow with a proportional increase in cost or staff numbers to the institution. For cost-efficiency reasons, a reduction in student contact hours is most desirable, providing that this can maintain the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Independent Study, Computer Assisted Instruction, Laboratories
Pachler, Norbert; Daly, Caroline – E-Learning, 2006
This article is based on qualitative empirical research into the ways in which teachers view their experiences as learners in the context of an online tutor group who are studying for the mixed-mode Master of Teaching degree at the Institute of Education, University of London. Data collected from a stratified sample of teacher participants is…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion Groups, Virtual Classrooms
Greenman, Jim; Stonehouse, Anne – 1996
This handbook is intended as a guide to caregivers in programs serving children under the age of three, and as a text for students training to work with infants and toddlers. The book includes material to help program developers and directors set up and manage a child care program. The text stresses the importance of good organization, one-to-one…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Role, Child Caregivers, Child Development
Boyer, Ernest L. – 1987
The experience of baccalaureate-level students in the United States is considered with particular attention to the way college structures and procedures affect students' lives. During fall 1984, site visits by 16 observer-reporters were made to 29 colleges and universities representing liberal arts colleges, comprehensive colleges,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Bachelors Degrees, College Admission, College Bound Students
Hsieh, Ming-Fang – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2004
This study aims to examine the implementation and application of the revised guidelines for developmentally appropriate practice in the care and education of young children in Taiwan. Child-centered philosophy was introduced to Taiwan 30 years ago, but numerous research studies report that Taiwanese early childhood teachers often encounter…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Educational Practices, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Clayson, Dennis E. – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2005
Although student evaluation of instruction has been shown to produce reliable results over class averages, considerable within-class variability exists that has not been investigated. This study looked at examples of student evaluations in which students diametrically differed in their evaluation of the same instructor. Patterns were noted. A…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Behavior, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Student Attitudes
Papadimitriou, Michael – Science Education Review, 2004
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to identify and describe the essential components of the current science education experience as constructed by female high school physics and advanced chemistry students. The participants identified five major factors as salient components of the science education experience: (a) mathematics, (b)…
Descriptors: Science Education, Secondary School Science, High School Students, Student Attitudes
Dade County, Miami, FL. Office of the County Manager. – 1978
This paper describes an internship program in Dade County, Florida, designed to educate future taxpayers and voters about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship; to stimulate an interest in the inner workings of local government; and to permit a close inspection and direct participation in government's day to day service operations. The…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizen Role, Citizenship Responsibility, County Programs