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Eddy, Pamela L. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
Funded grant projects all involve some form of evaluation, and Advanced Technological Education (ATE) grants are no exception. Program evaluation serves as a critical component not only for evaluating if a project has met its intended and desired outcomes, but the evaluation process is also a central feature of the grant application itself.…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Technology Education, Grants, Federal Programs
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Yarnall, L.; Tennant, E.; Stites, R. – Grantee Submission, 2015
Spurred by a demand to prepare more American workers for middle-class jobs in high technology industries, funders are investing aggressively in large-scale partnerships between community college workforce educators and employers. Despite such investments, however, few broadly usable insights have been gleaned about effective partnership and…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Partnerships in Education, Program Evaluation, Program Implementation
Luis M. Andrade; Angela Hoppe Nagao; Esmeralda Medrano; Josephine Macharia Lowe; Ding-Jo Currie – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2015
In this case study, a team of doctoral students--Luis M. Andrade, Angela Hoppe Nagao, Esmeralda Medrano, and Josephine Macharia Lowe--in a community college leadership program participated in a service-learning field project as part of an organizational theory course to analyze comparative outcomes of a college orientation and preparation program…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Community Colleges, School Orientation, Interviews
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Bresciani, Marilee J. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
The purpose of this study was to explore the manner in which a community college district planned to implement a systematic outcomes-based assessment program review process in order to have results inform institutional, district, and state policy discussions. Data derived from this grounded theory study indicated that there was not a shared…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Community Colleges, Program Effectiveness, Outcome Based Education
Rutschow, Elizabeth Zachry; Richburg-Hayes, Lashawn; Brock, Thomas; Orr, Genevieve; Cerna, Oscar; Cullinan, Dan; Kerrigan, Monica Reid; Jenkins, Davis; Gooden, Susan; Martin, Kasey – MDRC, 2011
In 2004, Lumina Foundation for Education launched "Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count," a national initiative aimed at improving success among community college students, particularly low-income students and students of color. Now encompassing more than 130 institutions in 24 states and the District of Columbia, Achieving the…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Program Descriptions, Student Characteristics, College Administration
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National Center for Education Research, 2013
Since its inception in 2002, the National Center for Education Research (NCER) in the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) has funded over 700 education research grants and over 60 education training grants. The research grants have supported exploratory research to build theory or generate hypotheses on factors that may affect educational…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Publications, Grants, Federal Aid