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Lewis, Darrell R.; Wasescha, Anna M. – 1987
A conceptual framework for considering the costs and benefits of postsecondary education assessment is presented, along with a typology linking the costs of evaluation to their informational benefits. A number of cost-analysis paradigms and techniques for assessing alternative evaluation projects at the institutional level are also examined. The…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Assessment, Postsecondary Education, Program Costs

Heitmann, Helen M. – NASSP Bulletin, 1988
Physical education contributes to the physical, mental, and emotional health of young people. Administrators must recognize these contributions and ensure an effective program by evaluating and retraining teachers to keep abreast of the recent knowledge explosion in physical education. (CJH)
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Physical Education, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Hayden, David L. – 1980
Intended for administrators and evaluators, the manual identifies models useful in evaluating special education programs in Maryland. An introduction to program evaluation, defines the concept of educational program evaluation, notes its purpose, and addresses its current status in the field of special education. Chapter 2 goes into greater depth…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Rhodes, Larry; And Others – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (JASH), 1987
The article provides an overview of benefit cost analysis and its limitations and reviews the applications of benefit-cost analysis within vocational programs for persons with severe disabilities. Recommendations are made to assist state and program developers in choosing among program alternatives. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Cost Effectiveness, Employment Services, Evaluation Methods
Teitel, Lee – Wallace Foundation, The, 2006
The current report explores what is available to superintendents after they assume their positions: what the landscape of sustained executive training and support options available for sitting school system leaders looks like. It describes about two dozen programs offered around the country-who offers them, how they are organized and funded, what…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Nonprofit Organizations, Leadership Training, Professional Development
Melton, Dustin – Arizona State Department of Education, 2004
Presently, state and federal school accountability efforts require greater attention to performance measures, such as the graduation rate, which serve as key indicators of a school's success in educating its student population. AZLEARNS, Arizona's school accountability system, includes a school classification system based on a set of performance…
Descriptors: High Schools, Graduation Rate, Federal Legislation, Accountability
Smith, Jana K. – 1985
Streamlining involves the modification of cost-analysis methods to make them more appropriate for the limited time and resources, and immediate information needs, of local-level program evaluations. It can also enhance the reliability and validity of district-level studies. A review of existing texts of cost analysis and of studies of traditional…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Resources, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education

Stolte-Heiskanen, Veronica – Higher Education Management, 1992
The use of performance evaluation and performance indicators in Finland is reviewed, and a study of Finnish researchers' perceptions and attitudes about them is discussed. Three conclusions emerged from the study: (1) departmental indicators should be developed; (2) publications are not a bad measure of performance; and (3) most scientists support…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Administration, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Miller, Angela Browne – Gifted Education International, 1991
This article overviews existing approaches to the evaluation of programs for gifted youth in the United States. A literature review found definitions, implementations, and consequence evaluations of gifted programs to be very diverse, resulting from lack of central planning, low social priority, and scanty conceptual organization. Possible…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Gifted
Hekimian, Shirley – 1984
This three-part report provides a literature review on the evaluation of community college staff development programs, reports on a study conducted to identify and validate evaluation criteria, and suggests a process for the use of these criteria in program evaluation. Part I reviews literature focusing on staff and program development,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Program Administration

Borich, Gary D.; Nance, Deborah D. – Remedial and Special Education (RASE), 1987
Compliance with policy mandates and instructional complexity are unique aspects of special education for which peer review, applied research, and qualitative/naturalistic methods used for evaluating general education are inadequate. A conceptual map designed to organize longitudinal, systematic evaluation of special education addresses its special…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria

Mets, Lisa A. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1995
Review of literature concerning the use of program review in higher education lists sources discussing the review process, focusing on the links between program review and other institutional processes, and addressing application of program review principles and practices to different higher education settings. Critical factors for successful use…
Descriptors: College Administration, Higher Education, Information Utilization, Institutional Research
Fetterman, David M. – 1993
This document considers both self-examination and external evaluation of gifted and talented education programs. Principles of the self-examination process are offered, noting similarities to external evaluation models. Principles of self-evaluation efforts include the importance of maintaining a nonjudgmental orientation, soliciting views from…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation, Gifted

Freiberg, H. Jerome – Educational Leadership, 1985
To improve the chances of success of current master teacher plans, this article examines the strengths and weaknesses of earlier attempts. It focuses on the Temple City, California, master teacher plan, cites reasons for its demise, and suggests alternatives. Charts are included. (DCS)
Descriptors: Career Development, Differentiated Staffs, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
Everett, Carthell; Pershing, James A. – 1989
This monograph provides policy makers and administrators with an overview of distance education principles, technology, and application as they exist today. Section I discusses elements of a distance education process. General headings are personnel, hardware, and software. Section II considers the historical development of distance education and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Vocational Education, Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs