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Follow These Guidelines, and Your Evaluation Office Can Be Essential Again.

Williams, Richard C.; McGranahan, Pamela – American School Board Journal, 1984

Suggests a four-step method for reconstructing evaluation offices originally established for federal funding programs so that they can provide information for local decision making: (1) review past work, (2) identify necessary projects, (3) establish joint priorities, and (4) develop action plan. (TE)

Descriptors: Administrative Change, Change Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Needs

From Program Evaluation to Instructional Information System.

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Bank, Adrianne; Williams, Richard C. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1985

Instructional information systems (IIS) are built on current practices in testing and program evaluation, but go beyond them. IIS are computerized data banks that allow users to ask a variety of evaluative questions. Factors which facilitate IIS, characteristics of future systems, and lessons from management information systems are discussed. (GDC)

Descriptors: Accountability, Computer Oriented Programs, Databases, Educational Administration