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Peer reviewedSilky, William; Readling, John – Roeper Review, 1992
The REDSIL model for ongoing evaluation of gifted education programs involves interviewing stakeholders, isolating and categorizing critical study issues, designing a data collection plan that uses several forms of qualitative methods, implementing the plan, analyzing data, searching literature relative to each issue, analyzing data again, and…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Formative Evaluation
Download full textDependents Schools (DOD), Washington, DC. Pacific Region. – 1988
Presented is a checklist for use by science coordinators, school principals, science supervisors, and teachers to identify strengths and weaknesses of science programs in grades kindergarten through six. It can also be used by science coordinators during school visits. This guide contains space for recording information concerning: school name and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Formative Evaluation, Models
Blosser, Betsy J. – 1983
Recognizing that some of the lessons educational television teaches children are cultural--how to be members of their own cultural group, for example, or what other cultural groups are like--a study developed qualitative methods for the formative evaluation of the accuracy of an educational television program's cultural content with respect to the…
Descriptors: Childrens Television, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education, Educational Television
Dependents Schools (DOD), Washington, DC. Pacific Region. – 1988
This document is a checklist for use by science coordinators, school principals, science department chairpersons and teachers in identifying strengths and weaknesses of science programs in middle and high schools. It can also be used by science coordinators during school visits. This guide contains space for recording information concerning:…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Guides, Models, Program Effectiveness
Browning, Mark E.; Lehman, James D. – Collegiate Microcomputer, 1988
Discusses the development and field testing of a prototype genetics tutor program for microcomputers written in Turbo Pascal. A preliminary field test with undergraduates is described that was used as formative evaluation, and suggestions are given for designing a more effective tutor that uses additional intelligent computer-assisted instruction…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer System Design, Courseware, Field Tests
Peer reviewedWells, Margaret R.; Gadikian, Randolph S. – Research Strategies, 1987
Explains the design and development of BISTATS, a computer application using dBASEIII for compiling bibliographic instruction statistics that was developed at State University College at Buffalo. Highlights include system design and development, data items included in the records, programming procedures, and testing and modifications. (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer System Design, Data Analysis, Database Management Systems
Thal, Sara E.; Sheehan, T. Joseph – 1985
This paper describes the development and implementation of an evaluation system for a pediatric residency program to meet federal grant monitoring requirements. Continuous communication and collaboration with program participants characterized this naturalistic formative evaluation. Concerns identified through initial interviews of the 15…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Evaluation Methods, Federal Aid, Formative Evaluation
Dependents Schools (DOD), Washington, DC. Pacific Region. – 1988
This is a checklist for use by science coordinators, school principals, science supervisors, and teachers in identifying strengths and weaknesses of science programs in grades five through eight. It can also be used by science coordinators during school visits. This guide contains space for recording information concerning: school name and…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Guides, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Bond, David L. – 1996
This booklet, which is intended for individuals responsible for evaluating and improving tech prep and school-to-work programs, examines the history, structure, and use of the Tech Prep/School-to-Work Index and Improvement Program, which was developed to provide a system for conducting internally focused evaluations of tech prep and school-to-work…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Education Work Relationship, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation
Dependents Schools (DOD), Washington, DC. Pacific Region. – 1988
This is a checklist for use by science coordinators, school principals, science supervisors, and teachers in identifying strengths and weaknesses of science programs in grades kindergarten through 12. It can also be used by science coordinators during school visits. This guide contains space for recording information concerning: school name and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Formative Evaluation, Guides
Loucks, Susan F.; Crandall, David P. – 1982
The practice profile is a standardized, systematic, cost-effective tool for summarizing the components and requirements of a program in a manner that permits comparison with other programs or selection of discrete components from various programs. It provides a component checklist, a precise list of implementation requirements, and a system for…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Formative Evaluation, Program Administration
McKinney, Floyd L.; Kohan, Alan – 1986
The National Center for Research in Vocational Education (NCRVE) was consulted to improve the formative evaluation design for the Principles of Technology (PT) curriculum materials developed by the Center for Occupational Research and Development (CORD) and the Agency for Instructional Technology (AIT). Because the NCRVE entered the formative…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Curriculum Development, Educational Research
Sabatini, John P. – 2001
An analysis was conducted of the results of a formative evaluation of the LiteracyLink "Workplace Essential Skills" (WES) learning system conducted in the fall of 1998. (The WES learning system is a multimedia learning system integrating text, sound, graphics, animation, video, and images in a computer system and includes a videotape series, a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Computer Software
Miller, Greg, Ed. – 2000
These proceedings contain 48 presentations and 15 poster abstracts. Papers include "Computer Tasks Required in Selected Undergraduate Agriculture Courses" (Johnson, Ferguson, Vokinnns, Lester); "College of Agriculture Faculty Perceptions of Electronic Technologies in Teaching" (Dooley, Murphy); "Steering Through Turbulent…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Sciences
