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Talan, Teri N.; Bella, Jill M.; Bloom, Paula Jorde – Teachers College Press, 2022
The "Program Administration Scale" (PAS) is designed to reliably measure and improve the leadership and management practices of center-based programs--the only instrument of its kind to focus exclusively on organization-wide administrative issues. In the third edition, the authors share updated information supporting the reliability and…
Descriptors: Program Administration, Evaluation Methods, Leadership, Early Childhood Education
Harms, Thelma; Cryer, Debby; Clifford, Richard M.; Yazejian, Noreen – Teachers College Press, 2017
Building on extensive feedback from the field as well as vigorous new research on how best to support infant and toddler development and learning, the authors have revised and updated the widely used "Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scale." ITERS-3 is the next-generation assessment tool for use in center-based child care programs for…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Preschool Education, Infants, Toddlers
Jimerson, Shane R., Ed.; Burns, Matthew K., Ed.; VanDerHeyden, Amanda M., Ed. – Springer, 2016
The second edition of this essential handbook provides a comprehensive, updated overview of the science that informs best practices for the implementation of response to intervention (RTI) processes within Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) to facilitate the academic success of all students. The volume includes insights from leading scholars…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Student Evaluation, Reading Skills, Writing Skills
Morris, Lynn Lyons; Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor; Lindheim, Elaine – 1987
The "CSE Program Evaluation Kit" is a series of nine books intended to assist people conducting program evaluations. This volume, the seventh in the kit, provides an overview of a variety of approaches to measuring performance outcomes. It presents considerations in deciding what to measure and in selecting or developing instruments best suited to…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Performance Tests, Program Evaluation
Henerson, Marlene E.; Morris, Lynn Lyons; Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor – 1987
The "CSE Program Evaluation Kit" is a series of nine books intended to assist people conducting program evaluations. This volume, sixth in the kit, is designed to help an evaluator select or design credible instruments to measure attitudes. The book discusses problems involved in measuring attitudes, including people's sensitivity about this kind…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Evaluation Methods, Interviews
Weinberg, Richard A., Ed.; Moore, Shirley G., Ed. – 1975
This is a collection of papers based on presentations made by participants in the Minnesota Round Table II sponsored by the University of Minnesota and the Child Development Associate Consortium in 1974. Included are an introduction to the conference (Richard A. Weinberg and Shirley G. Moore) and the following articles: (1) Planning Evaluation…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Conference Reports, Demonstration Programs, Early Childhood Education
Secolsky, Charles, Ed.; Denison, D. Brian, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Increased demands for colleges and universities to engage in outcomes assessment for accountability purposes have accelerated the need to bridge the gap between higher education practice and the fields of measurement, assessment, and evaluation. The "Handbook on Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation in Higher Education" provides higher…
Descriptors: Generalizability Theory, Higher Education, Institutional Advancement, Teacher Effectiveness
Norris, Stephen P.; Ennis, Robert H. – 1989
This book examines approaches to the evaluation of students' critical thinking on programmatic, school-based, and classroom levels. The first chapter examines the nature of critical thinking and offers a definition as well as an appraisal of the definition. The second chapter looks at methods of gathering quality information on students' critical…
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Critical Thinking, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education
Fleming, Dan B. – 1974
In this paper, the author reviews a number of criticisms that have been made of the use of standardized tests in the social studies and reviews 11 general, skills, and discipline-oriented standardized tests for social studies. Standardized tests evaluating the results of the new social studies courses are open to criticism on the basis of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques, National Competency Tests, Predictive Measurement
Cohen, Libby G.; Spenciner, Loraine J. – 1998
This book is designed to provide future and experienced educators and other professionals with a fundamental understanding of traditional and contemporary perspectives on the assessment of children and youth, aged 3 through 21. It features broad coverage of traditional and contemporary assessment approaches. Individual tests are discussed at…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Child Development, Children