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Blankenberger, Bob; Gehlhausen Anderson, Sophia; Lichtenberger, Eric – Research in Higher Education, 2021
Policymakers and institutional leaders in higher education too often make decisions based on descriptive data analyses or even anecdote when better analysis options could produce more nuanced and more valuable results. Employing the setting of higher education program evaluation at a midwestern regional public university, for this study we…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Program Evaluation, Public Colleges
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Rusticus, Shayna A.; Wilson, Derek; Jarus, Tal; O'Flynn-Magee, Kathy; Albon, Simon – Learning Environments Research, 2022
The desire to support student learning and professional development, in combination with accreditation requirements, necessitates the need to evaluate the learning environment of educational programs. The Health Education Learning Environment Survey (HELES) is a recently-developed global measure of the learning environment for health professions…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Student Attitudes, Allied Health Occupations Education, Educational Environment
Bernard L. Dillard – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The Upward Bound Math and Science (UBMS) program at Temple University (TU) seeks to guide first-generation, low-income high school students from Philadelphia in their quest to obtain postsecondary STEM degrees that lead to related careers. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of the program by analyzing its students' performance in light of…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Statistical Analysis, Program Effectiveness, College Preparation
Sinclair, Andrea L., Ed.; Thacker, Arthur, Ed. – Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO), 2019
California's Commission on Teacher Credentialing (Commission) requires all programs of preliminary multiple and single subject teacher preparation to use a Commission-approved Teaching Performance Assessment (TPA) as one of the program completion requirements for prospective teacher candidates. Three TPA models were approved by the Commission: (1)…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Performance Based Assessment, Models, Credentials
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Pitas, Nicholas; Murray, Alison; Olsen, Max; Graefe, Alan – Journal of Extension, 2017
This article describes a modified importance-performance framework for use in evaluation of recreation-based experiential learning programs. Importance-performance analysis (IPA) provides an effective and readily applicable means of evaluating many programs, but the near universal satisfaction associated with recreation inhibits the use of IPA in…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Recreational Programs, Program Evaluation, Statistical Analysis
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Rein, Benjamin A.; McNeil, Daniel W.; Hayes, Allison R.; Hawkins, T. Anne; Ng, H. Mei; Yura, Catherine A. – Journal of American College Health, 2018
Objective: Training programs exist that prepare college students, faculty, and staff to identify and support students potentially at risk for suicide. Kognito is an online program that trains users through simulated interactions with virtual humans. This study evaluated Kognito's effectiveness in preparing users to intervene with at-risk students.…
Descriptors: College Students, Program Evaluation, Suicide, Prevention
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Harrell, Johnna C.; Reglin, Gary – College Student Journal, 2018
Problem was the community college recognized a decline in student retention rates from 2009 to 2012 in the School of Nursing. Purpose of this program evaluation was to evaluate a faculty advising program (FAP) in the School of Nursing at a community college in regard to students' satisfaction and retention. Evaluation period was from Fall 2012 to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Nursing Education, Faculty Advisers, Student Satisfaction
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Fisher, Steven; Chi, Robert; Fisher, Dorothy; Kiang, Melody – International Journal of Educational Management, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to generate an understanding of the value-added to students enrolled in selected undergraduate business programs from an academic and market perspectives. Although there are numerous studies that rank undergraduate colleges and universities, the selection of the "best value" undergraduate business…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Business Administration Education, Reputation, Data Analysis
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Demirel, Ihsan Nuri – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
This study is devoted to the analysis of the attitude of the teacher candidates who are having education in Agri Ibrahim Çeçen University, Education Faculty, Department of Elementary Turkish Education about these facts below that are accepted as the terms for the sufficiency of education programme. A-) The terms about the sufficiency of education…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Preservice Teachers, Educational Environment, Student Attitudes
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Bergsmann, Evelyn; Klug, Julia; Burger, Christoph; Först, Nora; Spiel, Christiane – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
There is a lively discussion on how to evaluate competence-based higher education in both evaluation and competence research. The instruments used are often limited to course evaluation or specific competences, taking a rather narrow perspective. Furthermore, the instruments often comprise predetermined competences that cannot be adapted to higher…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Minimum Competency Testing, Screening Tests, Higher Education
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Jessop, Tansy; Tomas, Carmen – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2017
Evidence from 73 programmes in 14 U.K universities sheds light on the typical student experience of assessment over a three-year undergraduate degree. A previous small-scale study in three universities characterised programme assessment environments using a similar method. The current study analyses data about assessment patterns using descriptive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Undergraduate Students
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Stocker, Brandi L. – American Journal of Distance Education, 2018
This comparative study examined the academic success rates of online graduate nursing students by comparing final grades to the on-campus cohort of graduate nursing students prior to the program transitioning online. Analysis was conducted by identifying and comparing final course grades in 4 required Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) courses…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Masters Programs, Comparative Analysis, Graduate Students
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Smith, Patricia Joanne – Honors in Practice, 2015
Although the number of honors programs and colleges has grown dramatically over the last twenty years to over a thousand programs nationally, little has been done to develop consistency of standards in honors. In the interest of seeking consistency, the author designed a research study to provide initial insights into assessable measures that a…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Program Evaluation, Content Validity, Surveys
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Fuller, Edward J.; Hollingworth, Liz – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2016
Recent calls to hold preparation programs accountable for outcomes have led states to develop and adopt preparation program accountability systems. A primary feature of these systems is a focus on outcomes such as placement rates, retention rates, and graduates' effectiveness in improving K-12 student achievement. Yet, little research has examined…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Education, Job Placement, Program Evaluation
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Fenster, Judy – Journal of Social Work Education, 2016
A 1-hour workshop on how to avoid plagiarizing when writing academic papers was developed and delivered at an orientation session for BSW and MSW students at a university in the northeast United States. Six social work instructors led the workshops at the university's main campus and two extension centers. Before and after the workshop, students…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Prevention, Social Work, Workshops
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