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Using Student Test Results for Accountability and Improvement: A Literature Review. OECD Education Working Papers, No. 54
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Rosenkvist, Morten A. – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2010
This report discusses the most relevant issues concerning using student test results in OECD countries. Initially the report provides an overview of how student test results are reported in OECD countries and how stakeholders in these countries use and perceive of the results. The report then reviews the literature relating to using student test…
Descriptors: Test Results, Foreign Countries, Accountability, Literature Reviews
Exploring the Implementation and Use of Outcome Measurement in Practice: A Qualitative Study
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Skeat, J.; Perry, A. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2008
Background: Outcome measurement is important to clinical practice--yet outcome many speech and language therapists find it difficult to apply measures in practice, and not all clinicians and services have been able to implement and/or use outcome measurement successfully. To date there has been little research to explain why implementation is…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Evaluation Utilization, Outcomes of Treatment, Measurement Techniques
Acquiring Knowledge of Implementation and Change: Essential for Program Evaluators?
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Owen, John M.; And Others – Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, 1994
Discusses strategies designed to increase the instrumental use of program evaluation findings based on experiences in Australian schools. Highlights include an evaluation plan; awareness of the evaluation; timely reporting techniques; guidelines for implementation of findings; and the role of the evaluator as change agent. (Contains 21…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research