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Carver, Fred D. – 1985
Educational research and evaluation have had less impact on policy and decision making in education than hoped for, since research and evaluation represent fundamentally different kinds of endeavor than policy and decision making do. Evaluation has more impact than research because it is a more administrative activity and is more integral to…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education

Hernon, Peter – RQ, 1987
Identifies aspects of reference services amenable to evaluation, discusses the need for measures of service quality as well as quantity, presents modifications of current measures that meet this need, and stresses the importance of linking performance measures to library planning. (CLB)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Evaluation Utilization, Input Output Analysis, Library Planning

McClure, Charles R. – Government Information Quarterly, 1985
Assesses the value of the Government Printing Office's 1983 "Biennial Survey" as a tool to support depository library planning and decision making. The survey data are evaluated in terms of reliability, validity, and utility, and recommendations are offered for improving the design, administration, and analysis of the survey. (CLB)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Decision Making, Depository Libraries
McClintock, Charles – 1985
Several contextual factors were investigated related to the information needs of educational administrators. In a survey of 119 administrators, the following issues were studied: (1) varying preferences for different information sources; (2) the effects on preferences for information sources of different decision or program development tasks; (3)…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Decision Making

Wood, Carolyn J.; Pohland, Paul A. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1983
Analysis of teacher evaluation instruments from 65 New Mexico school districts, concurring with nationwide studies, suggests that teacher evaluation is meant more as a tool for administrative decisions than for improving teaching. (JW)
Descriptors: Administrators, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Decision Making
Craig, James R.; And Others – 1981
This investigation employed an in-basket simulation to assess the effect of provisional analysis on the use of evaluation data by program administrators in making program decisions. Sixty-five volunteers from graduate education courses and 52 volunteers from undergraduate educational psychology classes at Western Kentucky University were randomly…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Clark, Philip M. – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1985
Describes the use of online accounting systems as a means of integrating diverse data and providing different levels of analysis for managers. An appendix provides examples of reports produced by online systems. (CLB)
Descriptors: Accounting, Computer Simulation, Computer Software, Cost Effectiveness
Mitchell, Stephanie – 1988
The research described in this paper was designed to assess how evaluative data were used in instructional decision making in the Portland (Oregon) Public Schools. Using the Level of Use of an Innovation (LoU) interview, a component of the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM), along with data from the Portland Achievement Levels Test (PALT), the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Decision Making, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
van den Berg, Gerald; And Others – 1986
This paper examines possible explanations for the fact that evaluation results are rarely used. Most explanatory factors for use of results in decision making mentioned in the literature have been clustered in three categories of variables. They concern: (1) the making of decisions about the practical problem; (2) the way in which evaluation is…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Decision Making
Kennedy, Mary M. – 1982
Qualitive data from interviews with individuals and observations of group meetings were gathered from 16 school districts that participated in a study of school district uses of evaluation and test data. The findings are organized around a series of discrete topics presented in a set of independent papers. The title essay, "Working Knowledge,"…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Content Analysis, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Rocky Mountain School Div. No. 15, Rocky Mountain House (Alberta). – 1986
This summary report presents methodologies, results, and conclusions of a two-year evaluation model implemented by an Alberta, Canada, rural school district to provide information for administrative and public decision making. An introductory chapter enumerates district goals for students and the model's objectives. Chapter 2 outlines how survey…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitudes, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Knapp, Michael S.; And Others – 1988
This report presents recommendations to the National Science Foundation (NSF) to guide it in assessing its initiatives in science education. The report outlines appropriate goals, procedures, arrangements, and resources necessary to establish an effective set of assessment practices that build on existing assessment activities in the Foundation,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Educational Assessment
Knapp, Michael S.; And Others – 1988
In supporting science education, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is, in some instances, funding the enrichment experiences of individual students, but more often it is supporting efforts to improve complex, decentralized education systems. Many feel that the Foundation's best chance for success lies in a grant support strategy that targets…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Educational Assessment
Deboeck, Guido; Kinsey, Bill – 1980
The study summarizes discussions and conclusions of the Regional Workshop on Monitoring and Evaluation of Rural Development Projects in East Africa (Nairobi, Kenya, April 1979), whose purpose was to share lessons learned from field experiences in managing information for rural development. An initial section summarizes information in papers…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Agents, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Knapp, Michael S.; And Others – 1988
This project is concerned with the development of procedures and plans for the National Science Foundation (NSF) to use in assessing its initiatives on an ongoing basis. This work is meant to complement another review of NSF's investment opportunities by estabishing a sound basis for designing and carrying out assessments aimed at any of the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Educational Assessment