This theses is focus on the use of interesting and suitable technicial materials for primary school. The thesis consits of two parts introducing some of the educational programs for primary school, which are the most exploited in the current educational system. Furthermore theteoretical part drala with differences in subject of Practical activities at primary school. The practical part presents several technical materials selected for 1st-5th class of primary school in the subject of Practical activities. In another component of the practical part the autor suggests topics possible to use in other subjects as well.

nÃo hà / AvaliaÃÃo de programas educacionais para gestÃo: um estudo de caso avaliativo no Grupo Carmehil em Fortaleza-CE, tem como problema: âComo aplicar, de forma participativa, um estudo avaliativo de programas educacionais de desenvolvimento gerencial centrado no diÃlogo?â O objetivo geral do trabalho consiste em aplicar um estudo avaliativo de programas educacionais de desenvolvimento gerencial, centrada no diÃlogo, que minimize as dificuldades dos programas existentes, detectadas junto aos atores sociais. E, como objetivos especÃficos: âAnalisar a eficÃcia do programa de desenvolvimento gerencial em estudo; identificar e analisar as fragilidades e dificuldades do programa educacional em estudo; e desenvolver processo avaliativo baseado no diÃlogo com os atores sociais envolvidosâ. O trabalho adota a estratÃgia metodolÃgica quadripolar de De Bruyne; Herman; De Schoutheete (1977), no campo da avaliaÃÃo educacional, a partir de quatro diferentes polos integrados: o epistemolÃgico, o teÃrico, o morfolÃgico e o tÃcnico. A epistemologia se fundamenta na hermenÃutica filosÃfica de Gadamer (2012a, 2012b), na avaliaÃÃo educacional e no humanismo; a base teÃrica, no humanismo de Rogers (1977a, 197b), na avaliaÃÃo educacional, em Stake (2006), Parlett e Hamilton (1982) e Saul (1988); e, na educaÃÃo gerencial, em Maslow (1962), McGregor (1999), Herzberg e Mausner (1964) e Simon (1965). O polo morfolÃgico apresenta os modelos avaliativos da base teÃrica. No polo tÃcnico, o trabalho segue uma abordagem mista. Ele à prioritariamente qualitativo, sem desconsiderar dados quantitativos. Trata-se de um estudo de caso avaliativo de um âPrograma EstratÃgico de Desenvolvimento Gerencial â PEDGâ, do Grupo Carmehil, e os participantes recaem na coordenaÃÃo tÃcnica, nos professores e alunos do programa. Foram usados questionÃrios com perguntas abertas e fechadas, observaÃÃo participante, anÃlise documental e entrevistas semiestruturadas, com o uso do gravador, preservando os aspectos Ãticos da pesquisa. Os alunos do PEDG demonstram uma percepÃÃo voltada para aspectos humanistas das funÃÃes gerenciais que desempenham, apesar de replicarem modelos tradicionais. Acredita-se que esteja faltando a figura do gestor/facilitador que desenvolva, em si, atributos pessoais que criam as condiÃÃes para o desenvolvimento das potencialidades dos colaboradores. O gestor/facilitador encoraja cada pessoa a buscar o diÃlogo, a fazer perguntas, a ouvir as pessoas, respeitando-as nesse processo, num relacionamento de abertura para a expressÃo dos sentimentos num clima de solidariedade humana. As empresas, hoje, precisam buscar uma experiÃncia de grupo para gerarem resultados nÃo apenas econÃmicos e sociais como tambÃm emocionais, jà que as pessoas lidam com gente e gente à emoÃÃo e precisa ser trabalhada para gerarem um clima de confianÃa mÃtua. E a aplicaÃÃo de estudo avaliativo de programa de desenvolvimento gerencial, centrado no diÃlogo, passa por um circuito processolÃgico da avaliaÃÃo educacional, com Ãnfase numa avaliaÃÃo mediata. / Assessment of Management Educational Programs: an evaluative case study in the Carmehil Group in Fortaleza established as research problem the issue of: âHow to apply, in a participatory manner, an evaluative study of educational programs for management development based on dialogue?â The overall objective of the present work consists of carrying out an evaluative study of educational programs for management development based on dialogue that is able to minimize the difficulties of existing programs, detected among social actors. And, as specific objectives the study aims to: âAnalyze the effectiveness of the management development program under study; identify and analyze the weaknesses and difficulties of the educational program under study; and develop an assessment process based on the dialogue with the social actors involvedâ. The work adopts the four pillar methodological strategy of De Bruyne, Herman and De Schoutheete (1977) in the field of educational assessment, from four different integrated views: Epistemological, theoretical, morphological and technical. The epistemology is based on the philosophical hermeneutics of Gadamer (2012a, 2012b), in educational assessment and humanism. The theory is grounded on the humanism of Rogers (1977a, 197b), on the educational assessment in Stake (2006), Parlett and Hamilton (1982), and Saul (1988); and on the business education in Maslow (1962), McGregor (1999), Herzberg e Mausner (1964) and Simon (1965). The morphological pillar features the assessment models of the theoretical basis. As for the technical pillar, the work adopts a mixed approach â primarily qualitative, without disregarding quantitative data. It is an evaluative case study of a "Strategic Program of Management Development â PEDG" of the Carmehil Group, and the participants are members of the technical coordination, teachers and students of the Program. Questionnaires with open and closed questions, participant observation, document analysis and semistructured interviews were carried out, using the recorder as to secure the ethical aspects of the research. The PEDG students showed clear awareness of humanistic aspects of their managerial roles despite reproducing traditional models. It is believed that the figure of the manager / facilitator who can himself/herself develop personal attributes that create the conditions for developing employeesâ potential is missing. The manager / facilitator encourages each person to seek dialogue, ask questions, listen to people, respect them in this process in an open relationship that fosters the expression of feelings in an atmosphere of human solidarity. Companies today need to seek a group experience that can generate not only economic and social results but emotional results as well â people deal with people and people are made of emotions and these need to be fostered so as to generate an atmosphere of mutual trust. And carrying out an evaluative study of a management development program based on dialogue involves going through the process of educational assessment with a focus on mediate evaluation.

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The problem of this thesis is to determine what implications a democratic society and the biological explanation of growth and learning make to an educational program and to measure the program planned for the Intermediate School of Edinburg, Texas, by these implications.

This study examined the effectiveness of a training program on the ability of registered nurse students to write complete nursing diagnoses. A comparison group was used as a control. There were 47 participants in the training group and 51 participants in the comparison group who received no training. Five hypotheses were used to examine the (1) complete nursing diagnoses, (2) labels, (3) clarifiers, (4) etiologies, and (5) mislabeled medical diagnoses or clinical problems as nursing diagnoses. As a pretest and posttest, participants in both groups viewed a video tape of a nursing situation and were asked to write nursing diagnoses. The training group received nine clock hours of classroom instruction on the nursing process of which three hours were on nursing diagnosis with a focus on the inclusion of label, clarifier, and etiology necessary for a complete nursing diagnosis. In the clinical component of the educational program the training group wrote nursing diagnoses as part of the nursing process. It was assumed that the comparison group did not receive comparable education. The mean difference of proportions between the pretest and posttest was computed for each group on the item tested by the hypotheses and for the difference between the two groups. Three of the five hypotheses tested in the study were accepted. The training group did have a significant increase in the average (mean) difference of proportions in the number of complete nursing diagnoses and etiologies and a significant decrease in the number of mislabeled nursing diagnoses. There was no significant difference in the number of labels and clarifiers. The training group did show a percentage increase in the number of labels and clarifiers written. There was little or no change in the comparison group over the time period of the study.

This study was designed to determine how institutions accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) meet the practicum requirements set forth in CACREP's 2001 standards. Practicum is a vital part of the matriculation process of counselors in training. This clinical based course allows students to practice the skills they have learned in previous, more didactic based courses. Trainees can stretch skills, all under the watch of a counselor supervisor with greater experience. Although CACREP instructs all accredited counseling programs to have such a course in place, the standards are not specific. Schools are often interpreting the standards in a multitude of ways, presumably to successfully meet the standards while still serving the student as well as the clientele who seek out mental health assistance (Pitts, 1992a). The purpose of this study was to determine what measures CACREP accredited institutions enact to meet the clinical practicum standards. The difference between this study and prior research that has addressed the practicum requirement is that the instrument used in this study specifically addressed every CACREP practicum standard, including technology, diversity, and concerns with supervision and meeting the direct client contact hour requirement. The results of the study showed that most programs do indeed meet the standards that have been set by CACREP. However, the way that these are met varies greatly from school to school. In addition, some schools have incorporated innovative practices that could be beneficial to both schools looking to gain accreditation and ones that are attempting to modify existing practices.

The Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Education Programs (CACREP) is the accrediting body for the field of counselor education. Since the inception of the standards, several individuals have published journal articles reviewing the strengths and weaknesses of CACREP accreditation. The purpose of this study was to do a preliminary survey of the opinions of individuals within CACREP accredited programs to discover the effects of accreditation on programs. The survey of opinions from respondent CACREP accredited programs indicated interesting results. The eleven frequently held beliefs about improvements after accreditation was substantiated by the number, the percentage, and the Chi Square results from respondent programs. Therefore, after CACREP accreditation, most programs reported the opinion that: students have higher grade point averages and test scores; students are younger, learn better, and receive more employment opportunities; a higher percentage of students pass the licensed professional counselor examination; average scores are higher on the nationally certified counselor examination; programs receive more applicants and faculty is more professionally active, publishes more, and presents more. The second part of the survey indicated that a large percentage of respondent programs offer courses beyond the CACREP core curriculum experiences (91%) and that a variety of courses are offered (78 courses). In addition, 91 respondent programs indicated that courses are required beyond the CACREP core curriculum experiences and that a variety of courses are required (29 courses). Three primary limitations exist in this study. First, the eleven frequently held beliefs were marked by the opinion of one faculty member for each program. Second, the number of blanks for each item was frequently close to or sometimes exceeded the number of respondents who marked the after CACREP column. Third, the survey data collected on courses that were offered by programs beyond the core were based upon memory and/or opinion and may be inaccurate. A recommendation for future research would be to study the hard data collected prior to and after accreditation.

The West Indies College is an institution of higher education in Jamaica which was established by the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in 1909. It has had three names: 1909-1923, West Indian Training School; 1924-1958, West Indian Training College, and 1959-present, West Indies College. The school has been served by over 20 presidents. The needs of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, the Mandeville community, Jamaica, and the West Indies region continue to play an important role in the addition and elimination of academic programs at the college. Present programs have attracted students from Africa, North and South America, the West Indies, and Europe. The college has industries that are used as facilities to provide the work-study program for students to fulfill the college's operational philosophy of educating the entire person. The industries assist students in the development of manual skills and in the payment of tuition. The West Indies College is funded by grants of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, tuition fees, profits from industries, and individual contributions. The school also receives a financial advantage in the form of tax exemption from the Jamaican government. An organized Department of Alumni Affairs assists the college in moral, professional, and material support. Due to the generosity of individual alumni, scholarships have been established to help needy students.

This ethnographic, descriptive case study is concerned with an analysis of the Elderhostel experience at one specific university. Questionnaires, evaluation documents, observations, phototographs, and interviews were used in this study to describe the 1988 Elderhostel experience at North Texas State University. Thirty-three persons were initially asked to participate in this study. Twenty-nine agreed and actually completed the questionnaires, and 26 completed the program evaluation. The study is organized and presented in the following manner: Chapter I introduces the study. Chapter II presents a review of related literature addressing those studies directly concerned with the Elderhostel experience, those addressing motivational reasons for participation in adult education, and those dealing with learning abilities, interests, and goals of the elderly in general. Chapter III includes the methods and procedures used to collect and analyze the data. Chapter IV presents the descriptive and statistical analysis of the data, and Chapter V includes the summary, interpretations, conclusions, and recommendations that were derived from the analysis. Major findings of this study include a description of the organization and administration of the program, a description of the educational and co-curricular activities offered and how they were evaluated by the participants, and demographic and motivational data of the participants involved. The "average" participant can be described as white, married, female, retired, white-collar background, from an urban community, a mean age of 70, a mean educational level of 16.5 years, and an income in excess of $20,000 annually. The most frequent reason given for attending Elderhostel was "program content," and for attending North Texas State University, the "International Focus." On the basis of the findings of this study it can be concluded that the characteristics of older adults most likely to enroll in educational programs can be identified; the North Texas State University Elderhostel program is meeting the needs and interests of its participants; and the primary motivators for attending Elderhostel are instrumental in nature.

Although strategic planning has been used successfully in most major business institutions, higher education has been slow to adopt this management technique. Involvement in planning is a critical issue for allied health educational programs, such as physical therapy, which are relatively new to the academic environment. These programs face a continual need to update their curricula and clinical education based on rapid changes in the health care delivery system and the profession. The problem of this study was to determine the extent to which the strategic planning process is currently applied in institutions in the United States which offer accredited physical therapy educational programs. The population of this study was made up of the chief executive officers of the 115 public and independent institutions that offer physical therapy educational programs. Selected experts on strategic planning and chief executive officers were surveyed in two phases using a mailed questionnaire designed to measure the organization, characteristics, and impact of strategic planning in institutions that offer accredited physical therapy educational programs. Seventy-three percent of the chief executive officers responded, and 50.9 percent indicated their involvement with strategic planning by completing the questionnaire. The findings indicate that, although there is general agreement between the experts and the chief executive officers concerning the characteristics of strategic planning, differences exist. Differences were also identified between academic health centers and other types of institutions, between public and independent institutions, and between institutions by type of physical therapy degree offered. It was concluded that, in the opinion of the chief executive officers, strategic planning processes are being practiced in institutions that offer physical therapy programs, that this process is compatible with academic collegiality, that changes are made in policies and programs but not in the mission, that although faculty members including those from physical therapy are involved, the role and the involvement of these individuals is unclear, and that information-gathering and evaluation methods could be refined.