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Direct linkKok, Seng-Kiat; Douglas, Alex; McClelland, Bob; Bryde, David – Tertiary Education and Management, 2010
The "raison d'etre" of higher education institutions is to educate individuals, undertake research, and disseminate knowledge into the public domain. Changing values and norms in HEIs, partly as a product of "managerialism", as well as increased competition for funding and other environmental factors, have moved autonomous…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Administration, Administrative Change, Business
Download full textBurchinal, Margaret R.; Krowka, Sarah; Newman-Gonchar, Rebecca; Jayanthi, Madhavi; Gersten, Russell; Wavell, Samantha; Lyskawa, Julia; Haymond, Kelly; Bierman, Karen; Gonzalez, Jorge E.; McClelland, Megan M.; Nelson, Kimberly; Pentimonti, Jill; Purpura, David J.; Sachs, Jason; Sarama, Julie; Schlesinger-Devlin, Elizabeth; Washington, Julie; Rosen, Emily – What Works Clearinghouse, 2022
By learning social-emotional, executive function, mathematics, and literacy skills in preschool, children are likely to be better prepared for the higher expectations and more formal curriculum in elementary school. Ensuring that all children are well prepared for elementary school is a priority for parents, caregivers, guardians, and policy…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, School Readiness, Evidence Based Practice
Kidd, Terry T., Ed.; Keengwe, Jared, Ed. – Information Science Reference, 2010
As instructors move further into the incorporation of 21st century technologies in adult education, a new paradigm of digitally-enriched mediated learning has emerged. This book provides a comprehensive framework of trends and issues related to adult learning for the facilitation of authentic learning in the age of digital technology. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Web Sites
McClelland, David – Educ Training, 1970
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Educational Media, Educational Planning, Educational Programs
McClelland, David C. – 1968
This pilot project sought to determine if instruction in achievement motivation would help potential dropouts to complete their schooling. Subjects were tenth grade students in a suburban Boston high school. A one-week residential course during winter and spring vacations was taken by one group of six boys and a second group of four. Equated…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement, Course Content, Dropout Attitudes
Peer reviewedMcClelland, David C. – American Psychologist, 1978
Illustrations are given of how advances in motivational technology have contributed to raising the standard of living for the poor, facilitated compensatory education, provided a means of assessing the contribution of higher education, helped control serious diseases, and made management of complex enterprises more effective. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Motivation, Motivation Techniques, Problem Solving
Peer reviewedMcClelland, David C. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1987
Comparison of characteristics of 12 average and 12 superior small business people in three developing nations (India, Malawi, and Ecuador) found proactive qualities such as initiative and assertiveness, achievement orientation, and commitment to others characteristic of successful entrepreneurs. Other expected qualities (self-confidence,…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Adults, Assertiveness, Developing Nations
Peer reviewedMcClelland, David C. – Teachers College Record, 1972
Author reviews studies to date and concludes achievement motivation training courses improve school learning by improving classroom and life management skills rather than by changing n Achievement levels directly.'' (Author/SP)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques
Peer reviewedMcClelland, David C. – American Psychologist, 1973
Intelligence tests deserve careful examination before continuing to blindly promote their use as instruments of power over the lives of many Americans. (DM)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Employment Qualifications, Intelligence Tests, Performance Criteria
Peer reviewedMcClelland, David C. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1972
Descriptors: Opinions, Personality Assessment, Personality Measures, Test Validity
McClelland, David C. – Educ Technol, 1969
Essay focusing on how achievement motivation is developed in students and adults, with some discussion of how various dimensions of educational technology may contribute to this development. Paper written pursuant to contract 0-8-071231-1747 with the U.S. Office of Education, under provisions of the Cooperative Research Program. (LS)
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Attention, Educational Technology, Goal Orientation
Peer reviewedMcClelland, David C. – American Psychologist, 1989
Study of the role of personality factors in health and disease suggests that motivational variables are related to and influence physiological systems. Affiliative trust and a greater sense of agency are associated with better health, while affiliative cynicism and a sense of helplessness are associated with more illness. (AF)
Descriptors: Diseases, Health, Helplessness, Interpersonal Relationship
Peer reviewedKrus, David J.; Rysberg, Jane A. – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1976
A group of 83 Czechoslovak industrial managers are tested using the McClelland's need for achievement measure. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Males
Powell, Daisy; Plaut, David; Funnell, Elaine – Journal of Research in Reading, 2006
The Plaut, McClelland, Seidenberg and Patterson (1996) connectionist model of reading was evaluated at two points early in its training against reading data collected from British children on two occasions during their first year of literacy instruction. First, the network's non-word reading was poor relative to word reading when compared with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Reading, Models, Instructional Effectiveness
McClelland, David C.; Burnham, David H. – Harvard Business Review, 1976
Empirical research shows good managers are motivated by a need for power, tempered by maturity and self-control. Workshops can help a manager discover whether he has the correct motivation profile and can help him become a better manager. (JG)
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrators, Improvement Programs, Individual Power
