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Download full textMeyer, Robert H. – NISE Brief, 2000
This issue of NISE Brief discusses the weakness of the most commonly used educational outcome indicators--average and median test scores and proficiency-level indicators--and the advantages of value-added indicators. It offers a critique of the average test score as a measure of school and program performance as an example based on national data.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Education, Outcomes of Education, Program Evaluation
Peer reviewedSechrest, Lee, Ed. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1993
Two chapters of this issue consider critical multiplism as a research strategy with links to meta analysis and generalizability theory. The unifying perspective it can provide for quantitative and qualitative evaluation is discussed. The third chapter explores meta analysis as a way to improve causal inferences in nonexperimental data. (SLD)
Descriptors: Causal Models, Evaluation Methods, Generalizability Theory, Inferences
Peer reviewedReichardt, Charles S., Ed.; Rallis, Sharon F., Ed. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1994
The eight articles of this issue examine the nature of differences that arise between qualitative and quantitative researchers in program evaluation in terms of goals and epistemologies. The origins of these differences and their consequences are explored. Authors represent both perspectives but do not defend their ideological turfs. (SLD)
Descriptors: Conflict, Epistemology, Evaluation Methods, Ideology
Peer reviewedConrad, Kendon J., Ed. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1994
The 9 articles of this theme issue stem from a project on alcohol and drug abuse that involved 14 projects, 10 of which began with randomized clinical trials. These papers describe implementation problems associated with experimentation in field research and the focus on ensuring internal validity. (SLD)
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse, Evaluation Methods, Experiments
Bouder, Annie; And Others – Training & Employment: French Dimensions, 1993
The increasing use of job training or retraining and employment programs in response to high rates of unemployment in France has spurred interest in program evaluation to see what results have been achieved. The contribution of traditional standardized evaluations and of emerging methodologies is being examined. Traditional evaluation methods…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs
Burry, James, Ed.; Quellmalz, Edys S., Ed. – Evaluation Comment, 1978
Abstracts are presented of the major conference papers and thematic discussions delivered at the 1978 Measurement and Methodology Conference. The titles of the presentations are: Policy-Responsive Evaluation (Wiley); When Educators Set Standards (Glass); Comments on Wiley and Glass (Schutz); Key Standard-Setting Considerations for Minimal…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Cognitive Measurement, Conference Reports
