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Download full textSeaman, 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
King, Christopher T.; Schexnayder, Deanna T. – 1992
A multiyear research project was conducted to document and analyze state and local coordination among programs designed to move Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients in Texas from welfare dependency to economic self-sufficiency and to assess the degree to which coordination resulted in movement from welfare into employment. The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Comparative Analysis, Coordination, Differences
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Austin. Div. of Community and Technical Colleges. – 1994
In May 1993, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board formed the Task Force on Institutional Effectiveness (TFIE) to develop a state-level evaluation and continuous improvement plan for community and technical college (CTC) workforce education and academic programs. This report presents the plan for utilizing data collected on CTC's in three…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Community Colleges, Educational Assessment, Educational Quality
Gall, Dan; Payne, Emily Miller; Burger, Phil; Curtis, Evelyn; Douglas, James; Kean, Nona; Parker, Ursula; Perez, Juan; Rosenberg, Sheila; Saucedo-Schwarz, Myrna; Franklin, Effie; Reed, Joseph – 2002
This guide is designed as an aid for the adult education administrator in the pursuit of continuous excellence and quality improvement in adult education programs in Texas. The Acknowledgments section provides an introduction, background, history, and overview of the adult education National Reporting System (NRS); overview of the NRS measures and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Guides, Administrators, Adult Education
Foster, Phillip R.; And Others – 1985
This handbook is intended to assist in the assessment and refinement of teacher preparation for industrial technology education in Texas. The first section contains preliminary information on the significance, development, and use of the guidebook. Provided next is an industrial technology teacher preparation assessment instrument that is based on…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Needs, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Seaman, Don F. – 2000
Even Start family literacy programs in Texas were evaluated by outside evaluators. Data were gathered from two groups. The first group consisted of 631 families who were enrolled in 11 Even Start programs in Texas during the 1998-99 and 1999-2000 program years. A survey, in English or Spanish, was administered to all parents in attendance on two…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Compliance (Legal), Evaluation Methods, Family Literacy
Sam Houston State Univ., Huntsville, TX. Criminal Justice Center. – 1994
More than 60 studies on prison education were reviewed to determine the following: relationship between prison education and offender behavior; effects of prison population control strategies on prison education programs; and effects of academic and vocational program participation on inmate misconduct and reincarceration. Among the main findings…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Adult Education, College Programs, Comparative Analysis
Decision Information Resources, Inc., Houston, TX. – 1995
In August 1993, a third-party evaluator examined tech prep system development and implementation in Texas public schools and institutions of higher education. The second year of the evaluation focused on the following aspects of Texas' tech prep system: current status of statewide implementation, secondary school counseling, professional…
Descriptors: Counselor Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, High Schools, Higher Education
Timmerman, Linda; And Others – 1995
The Transfer Success Work Group was established by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) and the Texas Association of Junior and Community College Instructional Administrators to investigate the effectiveness of the state's public community college transfer function and make recommendations for improving transfer efficiency. The…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Administrator Attitudes, Articulation (Education), College Transfer Students
Holder, Doyle – 1981
This handbook is designed to help Texas junior/community college administrators and instructor-coordinators of marketing and distributive education to plan, implement, operate, and expand mid-management programs. The handbook contains five sections. Following the introductory first section that reviews the purpose, history, philosophy, and…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Business Administration, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development
