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Direct linkRobinson, Lauren; Dudensing, Rebekka; Granovsky, Nancy L. – Journal of Extension, 2016
Program evaluation often suffers due to time constraints, imperfect instruments, incomplete data, and the need to report standardized metrics. This article about the evaluation process for the Wi$eUp financial education program showcases the difficulties inherent in evaluation and suggests best practices for assessing program effectiveness. We…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research, Error of Measurement, Money Management
Wehlburg, Catherine M. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2010
Assessing general education is not that different from assessing any other type of academic program, but there are some distinctions that make it even more challenging than other types of assessment. This article addresses methods for working with nondepartmentally based and interdisciplinary areas within general education, providing some examples…
Descriptors: General Education, Program Effectiveness, Interdisciplinary Approach, Evaluation Methods
Download full textPublic Agenda, 2012
"Building Institutional Capacity for Data-Informed Decision Making" is the third installment of the Cutting Edge series, which aims to help colleges engage faculty, scale successful interventions, and create a strong culture of evidence through use of data to strengthen their institutional change and student success efforts. Though the…
Descriptors: Evidence, Community Colleges, Organizational Change, Decision Making
Ayers, Samuel J. – 1987
This study attempted to identify efforts to evaluate programs for gifted and talented students in 122 Texas school districts and to compare these practices with those recommended in the literature and with Texas Education Association guidelines. Areas examined included informal and formal assessment of student and teacher identification practices,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Gifted
Seaman, Don F.; Hoffman, Victoria; Chen, Chia-Yin; Dunn, Yvette T. – 2001
The Texas "Families First" project was started to accomplish the following: (1) strengthen the capacity of local family literacy projects to design, support, and administer high quality programs by leveraging resources from several agencies in the state; and (2) finalize the indicators of program quality (IPQs) in early childhood…
Descriptors: Accountability, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization
Grant, S. G., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2006
Measuring History complements the cases presented in Wise Social Studies Practices (Yeager & Davis, 2005). Yeager and Davis highlight the rich and ambitious teaching that can occur in the broad context of state-level testing. In this book, the chapter authors and I bring the particular state history tests more to the fore and examine how…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, High Stakes Tests, Program Effectiveness, Educational Change
