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Mott, Rebecca – Journal of Extension, 2018
With today's technology, Extension professionals have a variety of tools available for program evaluation. This article describes an innovative platform called VoiceThread that has been used in many classrooms but also is useful for conducting virtual focus group research. I explain how this tool can be used to collect qualitative participant…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Extension Education, Qualitative Research
Kisker, Ellen Eliason; Boller, Kimberly – Regional Educational Laboratory, 2014
This brief provides tips for forming a team of staff and consultants with the needed expertise to make key measurement decisions that will ensure high-quality data for answering the study's research questions. The brief outlines the main responsibilities of measurement team members. It also describes typical measurement tasks and discusses…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Measurement Techniques, Group Membership, Expertise
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Campbell, David; Picard-Aitken, Michelle; Cote, Gregoire; Caruso, Julie; Valentim, Rodolfo; Edmonds, Stuart; Williams, Gregory Thomas; Macaluso, Benoit; Robitaille, Jean-Pierre; Bastien, Nicolas; Laframboise, Marie-Claude; Lebeau, Louis-Michel; Mirabel, Philippe; Lariviere, Vincent; Archambault, Eric – American Journal of Evaluation, 2010
As bibliometric indicators are objective, reliable, and cost-effective measures of peer-reviewed research outputs, they are expected to play an increasingly important role in research assessment/management. Recently, a bibliometric approach was developed and integrated within the evaluation framework of research funded by the National Cancer…
Descriptors: Cancer, Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods, Bibliometrics
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Malone, Lizabeth M.; Cabili, Charlotte; Henderson, Jamila; Esposito, Andrea Mraz; Coolahan, Kathleen; Henke, Juliette; Asheer, Subuhi; O'Toole, Meghan; Atkins-Burnett, Sally; Boller, Kimberly – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2010
This report contains resources to help researchers and policymakers review measures used in NCEE evaluations of educational interventions. The measures included in the Compendium are applicable to settings for preschool through grade 12. The Compendium discusses criteria and their importance in selecting measures for assessing intervention impacts…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Academic Achievement, Measurement Techniques, Profiles
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Giles, Steven; Jackson-Newsom, Julia; Pankratz, Melinda M.; Hansen, William B.; Ringwalt, Christopher L.; Dusenbury, Linda – Journal of Primary Prevention, 2008
The purpose of this study was to develop and validate an observation measure designed to capture teachers' use of interactive teaching skills within the delivery of the All Stars substance use prevention program. Coders counted the number of times teachers praised and encouraged students, accepted and used students' ideas, asked questions,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Prevention, Teaching Skills, Teaching Methods
Russ-Eft, Darlene F. – 1979
Since the last comprehensive museum survey was conducted in 1971-72, no current data has been gathered about the museum field. Because the field has not remained static it has become difficult to apply the 1971-72 survey findings to current museum situations. Because of this, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) was requested to…
Descriptors: Evaluation Needs, Higher Education, Inquiry, Interviews
O'Neal, Marcia R.; And Others – 1983
A difficulty associated with the use of Golub and Frederick's syntactic density score was the time required in hand tabulation. This drawback was resolved with the development by Kidder of a computer program which calculates a syntactic density score for writing samples. The purpose of this study was to examine the sensitivity of the Syntactic…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques, Pretests Posttests
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Strauser, David R.; Berven, Norman L. – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 2006
The purpose of this study was to develop an instrument, the "Job Seeking Self-Efficacy Scale," to measure perceived self-efficacy in job-seeking activities. The construction of the instrument, which incorporated tasks that have been determined to be important in job seeking for individuals with disabilities, was based on Bandura's theory of…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Program Evaluation, Rehabilitation Counseling, Field Tests
Wacker, David P. – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (JASH), 1989
The introduction to several articles on measurement issues in supported education for severely handicapped students stresses the importance of measurement in evaluating outcomes and identifying variables responsible for those outcomes. (DB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Mainstreaming, Measurement Techniques
James, Randolph I. – Performance and Instruction, 1987
Describes how two methodologies for analyzing and improving performance--performance engineering and organization mapping--were used in a case study involving the purchasing department of an electric utility. Highlights include the establishment of a model of the desired results, measuring existing performance, and the designing of an improvement…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Improvement, Measurement Techniques, Models
Smith, Nick L.; St. John, Mark – 1985
The Research on Evaluation Program's National Advisory Panel recommended that a means of matching evaluation methods with evaluation purposes be developed and that it include a guide to major Program publications. Practitioners in the field have also requested support on how to approach the evaluation design process to permit the incorporation of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs
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Wang, Margaret C.; And Others – Curriculum Inquiry, 1984
Discusses the technique of measuring program implementation, describing an effort to evaluate and refine the implementation of an innovative instructional model and examining the implications of this project for future research. (MCG)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Techniques, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Dusewicz, Russell A.; And Others – 1987
This guide is designed to help educators plan and carry out evaluations of adult education programs. Following an introduction, Section 2 discusses how the evaluation process fits into the concept and normal cycle of program development. Section 3 describes the stages of the evaluation process, including needs assessment, program planning, process…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation
Huling, Leslie L.; And Others – 1983
The three diagnostic dimensions of the Concerns Based Adoption Model (CBAM) are tools that can evaluate the degree of new program implementation at the classroom level. Implementation success is a function of use/nonuse, appropriate/inappropriate practice, and user concerns about the innovation. These dimensions: Levels of Use (LoU) of the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Attitude Measures, Educational Innovation, Elementary Education
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Occupational Education Research. – 1983
This booklet of support materials is intended for use with the publication, "Manual for Evaluation of Occupational Education Programs." The support materials include the forms to be used in preparing for, conducting, and reporting upon the assessment of occupational education programs. Forms are to be reproduced locally. Section 1…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques
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