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Mero, Dianne; Hartzman, Marlene – Principal Leadership, 2012
The 2012 MetLife Foundation-NASSP Breakthrough Schools are outstanding examples of how determined and focused leaders create and sustain school improvement. The schools are places of strategic decision making where dedicated adults demonstrate their conviction that every student can and will achieve. Each of the schools demonstrates the efficacy…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Improvement Programs
Afterschool Alliance, 2013
The Afterschool Alliance and MetLife Foundation are proud to celebrate a fifth round of the MetLife Foundation Afterschool Innovator Awards. For the past five years, we have collaborated to highlight the work of quality afterschool programs that support children, families and communities across the nation. This compendium is a compilation of four…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Middle School Students, Youth Opportunities, Youth Programs
MetLife, Inc., 2013
"The MetLife Survey of the American Teacher: Challenges for School Leadership" (2012) was conducted by Harris Interactive and is the twenty-ninth in a series sponsored annually by MetLife since 1984 to give voice to those closest to the classroom. This report examines the views of teachers and principals on the responsibilities and challenges…
Descriptors: State Standards, Principals, Instructional Leadership, Career Readiness
Training, 2012
In this article, "Training" editors recognize innovative and successful learning and development programs and practices submitted in the 2012 Training Top 125 application. Best practices: (1) Edward Jones: Practice Makes Perfect (sales training); (2) Grant Thornton LLP: Senior Manager Development Program (SMDP); (3) MetLife, Inc.: Top Advisor…
Descriptors: Management Development, Job Skills, Best Practices, Training Methods
Achieve, Inc., 2013
As shown by MetLife's 2010 "Survey of the American Teacher," America's educators strongly believe that all students should graduate from high school ready for college and a career (85 percent). Additionally, according to MetLife's 2009 survey, 86 percent of teachers believe that setting high expectations for students will improve student…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Alignment (Education), Principals
Gerber, Sima; Brice, Alejandro; Capone, Nina; Fujiki, Martin; Timler, Geralyn – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2012
Introduction: Pragmatic models were first applied to the treatment of children with language impairment in the late 1970s. Since that time, the study of language use has had considerable impact on language assessment and treatment. Despite the need to address pragmatic language skills clinically, there has been no systematic examination of the…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Evidence Based Practice, Elementary School Students, Language Impairments
Davison, Colleen M.; Newton, Lisa; Brown, Robert S.; Freeman, John; Ufholz, Lee-Anne; Smith, J. David – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2012
School start times for adolescents are increasingly being scrutinized within school communities. Recently, school officials have begun varying start times as a means to improve students' productivity, achievement, and health and well-being. This informal experimentation has proceeded in the absence of clear, detailed and well-substantiated…
Descriptors: High School Students, School Schedules, Well Being, Guidelines
Tripney, Janice; Newman, Mark; Hovish, Kimberly; Brown, Chris – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2012
The overall aim of this systematic review is to help policy-makers, practitioners and academics understand the available evidence on technical and vocational education and training (TVET) interventions in order to guide programmatic efforts to increase employment and employability amongst youth in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Intervention, Employment Potential, Employment
Waddington, Hugh; Snilstveit, Birte; Hombrados, Jorge Garcia; Vojtkova, Martina; Anderson, Jock; White, Howard – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2012
Farmer field schools (FFSs) originated in Asia as a means of achieving several objectives, of which key was to deliver training on 'integrated pest management' as an alternative to intensive pesticide spraying, which was severely damaging farm production, the environment and farmers' health. Integrated pest management (IPM) was developed in the…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Agricultural Occupations, Training
Westbrook, John D.; Nye, Chad; Wendt, Oliver; Fong, Carlton J.; Williams, Ann; Cortopassi, Tara – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2012
The objective of the proposed systematic review is to determine the effectiveness of pre-graduation interventions aimed at persons with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) to shape behaviors, social interactions, and/or skills that result in employment in mainstream competitive employment settings. Interventions included in this review produce an…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Interpersonal Competence
Eseryel, Deniz; Law, Victor – Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning, 2012
Understanding complex systems is fundamental to understanding science. The complexity of science systems makes them very difficult to understand because they are composed of large number of variables with dynamic interdependencies that determines the behavior of the systems. Hence, understanding complex system requires students to build an…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Systems Approach, Inquiry, Active Learning
Kalyuga, Slava – Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning, 2012
Although exploratory (inquiry-based, discovery, problem-based) learning environments have been effective for certain categories of learners and instructional situations, they could also be very cognitively demanding, especially for novice learners. Such forms of instruction may generate a heavy working memory load caused by intensive unguided…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Knowledge Level, Instructional Effectiveness
Pedaste, Margus; Mäeots, Mario; Leijen, Äli; Sarapuu, Tago – Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning, 2012
The current study applied a Web-based inquiry-learning environment Young Researcher for science learning. The environment supported students' inquiry processes with scaffolds for enhancing self-regulation and reflection. Empirical results suggest that students' inquiry skills and the quality of students' regulative processes improved in this…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Science Instruction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Self Management
Ifenthaler, Dirk; Lehmann, Thomas – Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning, 2012
This study investigates the effect of "preactional self-regulation" on the quality of problem solving. The experimental study was realized in a problem-based self-regulated learning environment. Data of 78 participants on externalized mental models, re-representing the problem solutions, were collected. A computer-based analysis tool was…
Descriptors: Self Management, Problem Solving, Problem Based Learning, Expertise
Gogus, Aytac – Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning, 2012
This study used HIMATT (Highly Interactive Model-based Assessment Tools and Technologies) to evaluate the cognitive models of individuals who are solving complex mathematical problems. The goal was to determine the ability of HIMATT to assess learning in mathematics. Research on cognitive and mental models proposes that internal conceptual systems…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Problem Solving, Mathematics, Evaluation Methods