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OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2011
The future of Greece's well-being will depend on improving educational performance to boost productivity and improve social outcomes. In the current economic context, with the need to get best value for spending, Greece must and can address inefficiencies in its education system. The challenges are significant. For example, Greece lags behind many…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
Coston, Caroline; Dagard, Cesar – 1995
An external evaluation of the Champaign County (Ohio) Workplace Literacy Project used the Triphase Evaluation process based on Stuffelbeam's decision-making model (1971). During the input phase, emphasis was on determining needs of workers and employers in order to develop a training program to meet specific identified needs. The process phase was…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Evaluation Methods, Job Skills
MACOMBER, F.G. – 1957
THE EFFECTIVENESS AND FEASIBILITY OF USING CERTAIN TYPES OF LARGE GROUP INSTRUCTION AT THE COLLEGE LEVEL WERE STUDIED. COURSES WERE TAUGHT (1) BY TELEVISION, (2) BY LECTURE, (3) BY A PROBLEM OR CASE STUDY APPROACH, AND (4) BY GRADUATE STUDENT ASSISTANTS. EVALUATIONS INVOLVED COMPARISONS BETWEEN THESE EXPERIMENTAL METHODS AND CONVENTIONAL…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Students
Boos, Jo Ellen – 1996
In recent years there has been a push for libraries to develop and use systematic measures to determine the effectiveness of library service. Materials availability, or fill rate, is one of many output measures used in libraries. This technique measures the degree to which library customers are able to acquire the materials they want during their…
Descriptors: Children, Early Adolescents, Evaluation Methods, Library Collections
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Johnston, Marilyn; Thomas, Michael – Journal of Educational Administration, 2005
Purpose: This paper aims to describe a qualitative study of a four-year, state-wide portfolio evaluation system for new principals. The State of Ohio (USA) was one of five states that participated in a field test of the Portfolio Assessment for School Leaders designed by the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) and the…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Portfolio Assessment, Focus Groups, Program Effectiveness
Robertson, Linda – 1982
A survey of all Ohio school districts sought to determine whether school boards expect their elementary principals to do what research says principals should do and whether they evaluate elementary principals on the basis of effective school leadership criteria. The research also tested the districts' compliance with Ohio's House Bill 769,…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Qualifications, Board of Education Role, Competence
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Popovich, Paulette M.; Vierheller, Tim R. – Assessment Update, 2005
Faculty at The University of Akron Wayne College, the two-year regional branch campus of the University of Akron, developed and implemented a plan to assess student learning in 1997. The plan was based on an embedded outcomes model, linking course-level student learning outcomes to program outcomes for each of six technical associate degree…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Student Evaluation, Outcomes of Education, Associate Degrees
Ghazalah, I. A. – 1978
A localized system for the evaluation of investment in vocational education in Ohio is described in this four part manual. Following an instruction introduction to the manual, part II provides a description of the analytical framework for this system. Vocational education is analyzed as an investment and an explanation of the criteria used in the…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Factors, Evaluation Criteria
Rolloff, John August
The records of 27 farm operators participating in farm business analysis programs in 5 Ohio schools were studied to develop and test a model for determining the influence of the farm business analysis phase of vocational agriculture instruction in farm management. Economic returns were measured as ratios between 1965 program inputs and outputs…
Descriptors: Adult Farmer Education, Agricultural Education, Cost Effectiveness, Course Evaluation
Kist, Bill – 2001
Rubrics are tools that formalize the process of evaluation by explicitly stating the criteria to be used for grading. Rubrics help students to evaluate the quality of their work as they progress through a class. They may be very helpful to Ohio adult educators in helping to evaluate the Uniform Portfolio that must be kept on every student within a…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children with Disabilities, Marion. – 2001
This guide provides Ohio parents of children with disabilities with information on multifactored evaluations. It begins by discussing the Intervention Assistance Team and what occurs at the assistance team meeting. It also explains that to begin the multifactored evaluation process, the parent must complete a "Request for Parent Consent for…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Eligibility, Evaluation Methods
Upton, Jan; Supovitz, John – 1996
Linking teacher treatment to student impact is not as straightforward as it may seem initially. The difficulties in measuring the impact on students are illustrated in this discussion of the Ohio Statewide Systemic Initiative (SSI). Since the inception of the SSI, the external evaluators had planned to use data from the state's proficiency tests…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Evaluation Methods, Grade 9, High Schools
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Worthington. Div. of Special Education. – 1987
This handbook is intended to assist Ohio educators in identifying students for placement in classes for individuals with severe behavior handicaps. The following topics are discussed: (1) definition of severe behavior handicapped, with examples and discussion of five characteristics and three qualifiers; (2) alternatives to referral, with examples…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Check Lists, Elementary Secondary Education, Eligibility
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Mertler, Craig A. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2000
A study of methods used to ensure validity and reliability in classroom assessments surveyed 625 elementary and secondary teachers in Ohio. Results indicate teachers spent little time conducting statistical analyses of their student evaluation data, and many techniques used were poor and inadequate. Additional professional development and improved…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Educational Objectives, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. Div. of Special Education. – 1991
This guide is the result of an Ohio task force which reviewed issues related to the identification, evaluation, and provision of appropriate educational services to children with language impairments. Two question and answer pages direct readers to the relevant sections of this guide. The first section, on the nature of language, looks at the…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
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