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Murdoch, George – Forum, 1998
The literature on evaluation in English language teaching has little to say about development of appropriate teacher evaluation systems for major institutional language programs. This article provides a set of ideas and suggestions that can enable a program team to create evaluation procedures that relate to the needs of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Institutional Environment, Language Teachers, Portfolios (Background Materials)
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Sevilla, Christine; Wells, Timothy D. – Performance Improvement, 1999
Discusses six initiatives that organizations can support to ensure peak performance: individual knowledge portfolios; mentoring and apprenticeship relationships; electronic conferencing systems; organizational knowledge repository; community of practice; reward and recognition. Defines each initiative and describes how to make each one work in an…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Improvement Programs, Institutional Environment, Job Enrichment
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Lechner, Daniel – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2001
Uses the theories of Michel Foucault to support the contention that the educational system normalizes and disciplines the individual rather than stimulates the development of personal potential. Argues that children should be allowed to co-author the contracts they have with their educators; in this way education can serve to empower the child.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Childrens Rights, Educational Change, Educational Theories
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Owen-Smith, Jason – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2005
The last quarter-century bore witness to a sea change in academic involvement with commerce. Widespread university-based efforts to identify, manage, and market intellectual property (IP) has accompanied broad shifts in the relationship between academic and proprietary approaches to the dissemination and use of science and engineering research.…
Descriptors: Institutional Environment, Intellectual Property, Research Universities, Organizational Change
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Kuhtmann, Marlene S. – NACADA Journal, 2004
The structure of undergraduate advising at private institutions that offer degrees beyond the baccalaureate level is considered. Shared advising models are found to be suitable for highly selective, extensive doctoral institutions with sizeable full-time undergraduate populations and relatively basic programmatic structures. Similar but more…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Faculty Advisers, Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers
Hattler, Jean Anne; Taylor, Bob L. – 1992
Findings of a study that compared the school climates of four Japanese high schools are presented in this paper. Eight factors that comprise the quality of school climate were examined--respect, trust, high morale, opportunities for input, continuous academic and social growth, cohesiveness, school renewal, and caring (Fox and others, 1974). A…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries, High Schools
Eigen, Lewis D. – 1991
This white paper describes the extent of drinking on college campuses; the health, social, academic, and economic costs thereof; means of education and intervention available to schools; and the relationship of many university policies and practices to this problem. The paper is organized into two major sections. The first describes the nature of…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Campuses, College Administration, Educational Environment
Tierney, William G. – 1994
This article suggests that a critical postmodern organizational perspective offers significant ways to assess an institution of higher education's effectiveness. The first part of the article outlines what is meant by "critical postmodernism" and then delineates a definition of multiculturalism in higher education based on the work of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Colleges, Cultural Pluralism, Higher Education
Ascher, Carol – 1982
Educational research often defines educational goals narrowly by reading levels or Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores and equally narrowly correlates student success in these areas with the content of the curriculum or time spent in learning. According to Rutter et al., secondary schools with a good ethos create students who perform well…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Environment, Educational Quality, Educational Research
Tan, David L. – 1990
Planning in higher education has evolved as a response to changes in the environment, such as expanding enrollments, student unrest, economic recession, and pressures for financial accountability. Strategic planning has emerged as one way institutions can handle and overcome the adversities of the future. Definitions of strategic planning are…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Decision Making, Definitions, Educational Change
Smith, Gregory C.; Nehrke, Milton F. – 1987
Staff and residents of settings for the aged often hold substantially different views of their shared environment, and the literature suggests that these perceptual discrepancies transcend such factors as degree of institutional totality, quality of care, and differences in personal characteristics among staff and residents. Despite the…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Institutional Environment, Institutional Personnel, Institutionalized Persons
Forrester, Donald W. – 1989
Leadership Kennesaw, a 1-year program designed to cultivate an institutional perspective and the leadership potential of a select cross section of the faculty at Kennesaw State College, is described in this report. The leadership model used in developing this project was a successful concept long used by chambers of commerce to promote…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Faculty, Faculty Development, Higher Education
Bess, James L. – 1988
The abstract and complex nature of decision-making processes and structure in colleges and universities is discussed from the perspective of organizational behavior theory developed in the industrial sector. After an introductory discussion of the history of organizational problems in higher education, the two main sections of the book are…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, Decision Making, Higher Education
Barbarin, Oscar A., Ed.; And Others – 1981
This is a collection of papers and research reports presented at a conference that focused on mental health issues and on individual, organizational, and community competence in relation to institutional racism. The report is divided into five sections. Section 1 discusses theoretical models of racism and community competence (community…
Descriptors: Community Role, Cultural Pluralism, Human Services, Institutional Environment
Linton, Thomas E. – Amer J Orthopsychiat, 1969
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association (Chicago, 1968).
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Child Caregivers, Educational Innovation, Emotional Disturbances
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