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Vinh, Megan; Lucas, Anne; Taylor, Cornelia; Kelley, Grace; Kasprzak, Christina – Center for IDEA Early Childhood Data Systems (DaSy), 2014
This roadmap provides a description of the activities involved in the development of the State Systemic Improvement Plan (SSIP) (SPP/APR Indicators C11 and B17) due to the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) on April 1, 2015. The roadmap is intended to support states with completing Phase I of the SSIP process. This document provides…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Special Education, Change Strategies, Teamwork
Rosch, David M.; Schwartz, Leslie M. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2009
As more institutions of higher education engage in the practice of leadership education, the effective assessment of these efforts lags behind due to a variety of factors. Without an intentional assessment plan, leadership educators are liable to make one or more of several common errors in assessing their programs and activities. This article…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Administrator Education, College Outcomes Assessment, Program Evaluation
Jerald, Craig D.; Van Hook, Kristan – National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, 2011
Teacher evaluation has emerged as a major focus for reform at the highest levels of education policymaking, and for good reason. Most evaluations are based on scant evidence of actual effectiveness, produce inflated ratings, and provide teachers with little useful feedback. This paper offers policymakers and practitioners important "lessons…
Descriptors: Evidence, Feedback (Response), Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation
Casey, Julie; McLaughlin, Gerry – 2000
This paper describes how one university developed a program portfolio, which provides a means for integrating previous strategic initiatives. Step one involved identifying the need for information as different institutional changes were implemented. Over 4 years, the university: launched a comprehensive strategic growth plan; designed and…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Brown, Sally; Knight, Peter – 1994
This book explores the key issues of learner assessment in terms of who it is for, what modes of assessment exist, what makes for sound assessment, why assessment is done, what agencies are promoting innovative methods of assessment, and the catalysts for change. Practical suggestions on how to assess more effectively are provided, including…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Foreign Countries
Gursky, Daniel – Teacher Magazine, 1991
Describes how one education reform strategist wants to establish a broad national examination system for American students which would be a powerful motivator to achieve. It would be based on the best aspects of foreign schools but address American diversity, assessing students' skills through a wide range of activities. (SM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education

Manning, D. Thompson; Ensor, Phyllis G. – Journal of School Health, 1983
By consciously applying evaluation techniques before they adopt a new program, health educators can increase the likelihood that the program will meet their needs. Guidelines are provided for posing questions about the new program, that are normally raised at the program's end, as part of summative evaluation. (Authors/PP)
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Change Strategies, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods

Saegesser, Francois – Simulation and Games, 1981
Delineates some of the general difficulties encountered while introducing simulations/games into a secondary school system with emphasis on time, spatial organization, and methods of evaluating learning. Sixteen references are appended. (Author/LLS)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Games, Educational Innovation, Evaluation Methods

Foster-Johnson, Lynn; Dunlap, Glen – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1993
The process of "functional assessment" is recommended to establish a basis for individualized behavior management programing for students with special needs. The approach is based on identifying the functions of the challenging behavior and involves systematically collecting information about the behavior and developing an intervention…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Change Strategies
Hayes, Robert M.; Walter, Virginia A. – 1996
Public libraries must operate in a time of increasing change, both within the library community and throughout the larger social and economic environments in which the library must function. This book is a guide to the strategic management of change in community libraries. It addresses the unique circumstances and needs of public libraries and…
Descriptors: Change, Change Strategies, Evaluation Methods, Library Administration

Butters, Janice M.; And Others – Journal of Dental Education, 1991
A survey of 48 United States dental schools investigated the degree and type of program evaluation conducted. Results indicated a range of related activities, with evaluation and remedial action occurring in a majority of schools. However, establishment of criteria for specific quality assurance activities was found lacking. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Dental Schools, Educational Change, Educational Quality

Kells, Herb R. – Higher Education Management, 1991
This article discusses the use of incentives for higher education institutions to become more efficient, effective, and responsive to government policies and offers examples of positive and negative incentives, the nature of relevant incentives, and the relationship between incentives and professional preferences. Suggestions for using incentives…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, Educational Change, Efficiency
Karasoff, Patricia; And Others – 1992
This review of effective practices in state-wide systems change was conducted as part of the PEERS (Providing Education for Everyone in Regular Schools) Project, a 5-year collaborative systems change project in California to facilitate the integration of students with severe disabilities previously at special centers into services at regular…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Disabilities, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
O'Connell, Carleen; And Others – 1988
The changes required by many school reform policies address problems that are extremely difficult to clarify, with organizational and environmental factors densely intertwined. Accordingly, this document begins by identifying the "four C's" that must be taken into account if any strategy for school improvement is to succeed: complexity,…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Jefferson County Public Schools, Louisville, KY. – 1986
The Sex Equity Workshops for Adult Education Teachers Project was designed to provide eight training sessions for part-time and full-time instructors of adult education in Jefferson County, Kentucky. The project, which was funded through the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Act, was intended to help staff examine their own personal attitudes about sex…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Change Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Evaluation Methods