PARENT EDUCATION PROGRAMS THAT WORK: A MODEL

Laura Colosi Rachel Dunifon Effective Parent Education Programs

This brief provides a summary of features of successful parenting programs and a description of criteria researchers use to determine the effectiveness of such programs. This report relies on materials from three sources: the Rand Organization’s Promising Practices Network; the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Program’s (OJJDP) Family Strengthening Series; and the Office on Child Abus...

Programs that Model Themselves

Work on reeection has frequently concentrated on programming languages and operating systems. This work either involves the use of tower reeection or meta-object protocols. The subject of this paper is a diierent form of reeection that is, we believe, more powerful and fundamental than the other kinds. Self modelling is a process that has not received attention in the literature; indeed, we bel...

Pk-3 Education: Programs and Practices That Work in Children’s First Decade

Oncology nursing education: teaching strategies that work.

Faculty at a university school of nursing developed an innovative oncology nursing elective designed to enhance baccalaureate students' knowing and aesthetic appreciation of persons living with cancer. Following completion of the course, students rank ordered class activities they felt would help them most in their nursing careers. Students chose the cancer survivor interview first, followed by...

Effective Teaching Model in Continuing Medical Education Programs

Background and purpose: World Health Organization (WHO) considers continuing medical education (CME) as an urgent necessity. The purpose of this study was to provide an effective teaching model in CME programs. Materials and methods: In this cross-sectional study, 229 faculty members from medical universities in Iran participated. They had teaching experiences in the CME programs of Mazandaran...