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Direct linkRussell, Christina A., Ed.; Newhouse, Corey, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2021
"Measure, Use, Improve! Data Use in Out-of-School Time" shares the experience and wisdom from a broad cross-section of out-of-school time professionals, ranging from internal evaluators, to funders, to researchers, to policy advocates. Key themes of the volume include building support for learning and evaluation within out-of-school time…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Capacity Building, Evaluators, Educational Quality
Peer reviewedToal, Stacie A.; Gullickson, Arlen R. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2011
In 1999, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded funds to the Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University to conduct an external evaluation of the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. ATE, a federally mandated program designed to increase the number and quality of skilled technicians in the U.S. workforce, has funded over 346…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Technology Education
Hobson, Kristin A.; Burkhardt, Jason T. – Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2012
Background: A music education program with a goal of enhancing cognitive development of preschool-aged children enrolled in local preschools is evaluated by The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University. The budget for the evaluation was small, and therefore presented several challenges to the evaluation team. Purpose: Through a case study…
Descriptors: Music Education, Preschool Children, Cognitive Development, Program Evaluation
Download full textCoalition for Evidence-Based Policy, 2007
The purpose of this Guide is to advise researchers, policymakers, and others on when it is possible to conduct a high-quality randomized controlled trial in education at reduced cost. Well-designed randomized controlled trials are recognized as the gold standard for evaluating the effectiveness of an intervention (i.e., program or practice) in…
Descriptors: Costs, Scores, Data, Research Design
PDF pending restorationStufflebeam, Daniel L. – 1974
The Michigan accountability system, based on statewide objectives-referenced testing at two grade levels generated considerable controversy, including this response to criticisms of an evaluation of the program by a panel of three persons. The contract under which the evaluation was performed is quoted to show that the authors of the report were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment
Taylor, Jack P. – 1974
The author describes the Content, Input, Process, and Product (CIPP) evaluation model as it was implemented in the Saginaw Public Schools in Michigan. As school superintendent in Saginaw, he describes how the CIPP model provided information to administrators for answering four basic questions: (1) what should we do? (2) how should we do it? (3)…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Problems, Administrator Responsibility, Educational Administration
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (ED), Washington, DC. – 1980
This document is one of a series of reports which describe the experiences of six state agencies that are developing systems to affect the development and implementation of policy in the federal/state program for vocational rehabilitation. The state programs are developing model program evaluation/management information support units. This second…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Citations (References), Cost Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods
Smith, Nick L., Ed.; Caulley, Darrel N., Ed. – 1982
The nature of educational evaluation and its interaction with policy in six state departments of education is examined. Case reports of research and evaluation units are presented for Virginia (by Gerald W. Bracey), Michigan (by David L. Donovan and Stanley A. Rumbaugh), Washington (by Alfred F. Rasp, Jr.), South Carolina (by Paul D. Sandifer),…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Assessment, Educational Innovation, Educational Policy
