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Farley, Joanne – 1979
This thesaurus is designed to provide the vocational education community and its relevant audiences with a comprehensive, organized listing of outcome questions and hypotheses. The first of two sections includes a discussion of the importance as well as problems of attempting to develop a classification system for categorizing vocational outcomes.…
Descriptors: Classification, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Criteria, Postsecondary Education
Evaluation Exchange: Emerging Strategies in Evaluating Child and Family Services, 1997
This document is comprised of the 1997 issues of a quarterly newsletter of the Harvard Family Research Project, designed to share new ideas and experiences in evaluating systems reform and comprehensive child and family services. The first issue focuses on evaluation methodology and includes articles on the following topics: (1) mixing evaluation…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Community Programs, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
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Astin, Alexander W.; And Others – Leadership Abstracts, 1993
Designed to help educators examine their current student assessment practices and ensure that assessment activities lead to real improvements, this paper lists and discusses nine principles for assessing student learning. The nine principles are: (1) the assessment of student learning begins with educational values; (2) assessment is most…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Evaluation Criteria
Brown, Patricia R. – 1990
An overview of accountability in public education is presented in this publication. Contents include a review of recent accountability efforts, an outline of a comprehensive accountability model, an analysis of accountability strategies, and a discussion of means for incorporating system indicators into the larger systemic framework. A conclusion…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Competency Based Education, Educational Assessment
Bolland, Kathleen A. – 1979
As part of a project designed to identify appropriate and feasible methods of evaluating vocational education with respect to its outcomes, this bibliography contains descriptive and evaluative annotations of a selection of empirical studies of vocational education outcomes. Following a technical introduction discussing the methodological issues…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Criteria
Sungaila, Helen – The Australian Administrator, 1980
Following a discussion of a number of objective methods of program evaluation, the author recommends a more subjective or existential model. Described briefly are the behavioral objectives model, the goal-free model, the systems analysis model, the decision-making model, the accreditation and adversary models, and the transactional model. The…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Myers, Michael M. – Issues in Higher Education, 1983
The way that remediation affects the costs and the academic quality of higher education is discussed, and approaches to dealing with these problems are addressed. Recent increases in the number of underprepared students entering college have resulted in a greater need for remedial education to prepare them for college-level work. In addition to…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Admission Criteria, College Preparation, College Students
Pinette, Clayton, Ed.; Smith, Kent, Ed. – Forum for Reading: The Journal for College Reading Improvement, 1979
Five essays for reading instructors at two-year colleges are provided in this issue of "Forum for Reading." First, Kent Smith notes the increased recruitment of underprepared students and argues that colleges are responsible for assuring that admissions personnel, administrators, and faculty know the types of students they can and cannot…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, High Risk Students, Open Enrollment, Program Effectiveness
Bhaerman, Robert D. – 1979
Intended for the classroom teacher, this review of first generation career education research is based primarily on Edwin L. Herr's comprehensive review and synthesis, "Research in Career Education: The State of the Art" (ED 149 177). Herr's major findings have been summarized in a list of statements. For example, two of these statements…
Descriptors: Accountability, Career Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Facilities
Connector, 1996
Four newsletter issues address aspects of adult immigrant education for employment. The first focuses on the manufacturing industry, with articles describing a Pima County Adult Education (Arizona) program concerning quality standards, an El Paso Community College (Texas) program for employees of companies in transition, and survey results on…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship
Lindsay, Janis – 1983
A study examined the career education opportunities available to mentally handicapped adults in British Columbia. The primary objectives of the study were to assess the effectiveness of various methods and models in meeting the needs of mentally handicapped adults, to explore the policy implications of the program strengths and weaknesses, to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Articulation (Education), Career Education