Best Practices for Retaining Public Speaking Students

Best Practices for Reproducing Public Records

1.0 Introduction The Records Reproduction Act (MCL 24.401-24.406) regulates the reproduction of public records by Michigan government agencies at all levels. This law requires the Records Management Services to promulgate technical standards to ensure the continued accessibility and usability of records that are microfilmed or digitized throughout their retention period. The standards are also ...

Best Practices for Measuring Students’ Attitudes toward Learning Science

Science educators often characterize the degree to which tests measure different facets of college students' learning, such as knowing, applying, and problem solving. A casual survey of scholarship of teaching and learning research studies reveals that many educators also measure how students' attitudes influence their learning. Students' science attitudes refer to their positive or negative fe...

Best Practices in Planning Interventions for Students With Reading Problems

The majority of students who are referred for academic concerns and/or have been identified as having a specific learning disability have difficulties in the area of reading. Among the population of students with learning disabilities, an estimated 80%have reading disabilities (Lerner, 1993). Students with poor reading skills are becoming more apparent to educators and parents due to the result...

Best practices for retaining your 'sages'--nursing staff over age 50.

Practices for Recruiting and Retaining Graduate Women Students in Computer Science and Engineering

Producing a continuous supply of well-trained, highquality IT professionals poses the greatest challenge of U.S. competitiveness over the next decade. A largely untapped talent pool is among women who currently participate in computer science and engineering education at low rates, and subsequently, in academia and in industry. This paper summarizes current practices by Computer Science and Eng...