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Ellie Renae Bowen – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The educative Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA) has been adopted by many state legislatures and teacher preparation programs (TPP). These states require teacher candidates to pass the edTPA with a state-specific passing score to be recommended for licensure. In the 19 states where passing the edTPA has not been required as a condition of…
Descriptors: Interrater Reliability, Teacher Evaluation, Rating Scales, Performance Based Assessment
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Nolton, Esther; Powell, Marvin; Varier, Divya; Caracelli, Valerie Jean; Hopson, Rodney K. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2021
Despite marked growth in evaluation use and capacity in the U.S. Federal Government over the last 50 years, the levers that have driven institutional change have not previously been identified. This ethnographic study mapped the process and factors that have led to the diffusion of value in evaluation in the U.S. Federal Government. Analyses of…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Federal Government, Program Evaluation, Public Policy
McCormick, Silvana – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Program evaluation can play a critical role in supporting high quality implementation of social programs to help them achieve their goal of social impact. Evaluation scholars have developed a wide range of strategies to help build programs' internal evaluation capacity in an effort to support meaningful use of evaluation. However, the evaluation…
Descriptors: Program Improvement, Institutional Characteristics, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Utilization
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Olejniczak, Karol – American Journal of Evaluation, 2017
Knowledge brokering is a promising practice for addressing the challenge of using research evidence, including evaluation findings, in policy implementation. For public policy practitioners, it means playing the role of an intermediary who steers the flow of knowledge between producers (researchers) and users (decision makers). It requires a set…
Descriptors: Evaluation Utilization, Program Improvement, Program Implementation, Public Policy
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Duke, Adrienne M.; Sollie, Donna L.; Silva, Kelcie – Journal of Extension, 2016
We conducted a youth participatory evaluation of a bullying prevention curriculum before the curriculum was implemented in communities. We partnered with youths from a young women leaders' program to reduce the number of lessons in an existing curriculum and determine which activities were likely to have the greatest impact. To evaluate the…
Descriptors: Bullying, Prevention, Youth Programs, Student Participation
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Smith, Kevin G.; Dombek, Jennifer L.; Foorman, Barbara R.; Hook, Karl S.; Lee, Laurie; Cote, Anna-Marie; Sanabria, Israel; Stafford, Tammy – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2016
While academic interventions can be implemented in any grade, focusing on interventions in high school is critical because it is often a student's last chance to become ready for the academic demands of postsecondary education and careers. States across the country are implementing large-scale initiatives focused on delivering academic…
Descriptors: Intervention, Guides, High Schools, Program Implementation