Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 0 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 3 |
Descriptor
Source
Canadian Journal of Program… | 1 |
Deafness and Education… | 1 |
Education Policy Analysis… | 1 |
Educational Evaluation and… | 1 |
Evaluation Review | 1 |
Evaluation and Program… | 1 |
New Directions for Evaluation | 1 |
Author
Amo, Courtney | 1 |
Brown, P. Margaret | 1 |
Brown, Robert D. | 1 |
Byrnes, Linda J. | 1 |
Cousins, J. Bradley | 1 |
Datta, Lois-ellin | 1 |
Foley, Ellen | 1 |
Holosko, Michael J. | 1 |
Mishook, Jacob | 1 |
Nielsen, Lore A. | 1 |
Supovitz, Jonathan | 1 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Journal Articles | 7 |
Reports - Research | 4 |
Reports - Evaluative | 2 |
Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
Education Level
Elementary Secondary Education | 1 |
Audience
Location
Australia | 1 |
United States | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Race to the Top | 1 |
Assessments and Surveys
Clinical Evaluation of… | 1 |
Levels of Use of the… | 1 |
Peabody Picture Vocabulary… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Supovitz, Jonathan; Foley, Ellen; Mishook, Jacob – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2012
Data have long been considered a key factor in organizational decision-making (Simon, 1955; Lindblom & Cohen, 1979). Data offer perspective, guidance, and insights that inform policy and practice (Newell & Simon, 1972; Kennedy, 1984). Recently, education policymakers have invested in the use of data for organizational improvement in states…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Politics of Education, Educational Indicators, Management Information Systems
Brown, P. Margaret; Byrnes, Linda J. – Deafness and Education International, 2014
This study investigated the Individual Learning Plans of eighty-eight students who were deaf and hard of hearing attending facilities and schools for the deaf in Victoria Australia. The students' assessment and planning portfolios were scrutinised for evidence of formal and informal assessment used to generate goals for the Individual Learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Partial Hearing, Special Education
Amo, Courtney; Cousins, J. Bradley – New Directions for Evaluation, 2007
The study of the consequences of evaluation, or more specifically of evaluation use or utilization, represents a significant portion of the body of research on evaluation. Much has been written on the evolution of the multidimensional concept of evaluation use, most recently the examination of consequences of evaluation that are not a function of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Research Methodology, Cognitive Processes, Evaluation Research

Holosko, Michael J. – Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation/La Revue canadienne d'evaluation de programme, 1996
A case study approach taken with three years of data on a hospital's trauma program indicate that, although service user data is important, its political importance far outweighs evaluation value and utility, especially for hard-to-access samples. Implications of this challenge to traditional assumptions for program evaluation are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization

Brown, Robert D.; And Others – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1985
This investigation examined the effect contextual variables had on a national sample of school board members' information needs for decision making. Importance, conflict, and content were found to be associated with board members' needs for time, information, and consultation. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Conflict Resolution, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education

Nielsen, Lore A.; Turner, Susan Douglas – Evaluation Review, 1985
This article presents a discussion of field utilization of staff development activities in the context of three separate training programs. Specifically, classroom implementation of knowledge and skills gained by participants in their training sessions was assessed via the Levels of Use (LoU) interview system. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Utilization

Datta, Lois-ellin – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1993
Dissemination approaches of the U.S. Department of Education are explored in the context of federal efforts to recognize the best, considering relatively systematic approaches to recognition and the five vulnerable evaluation areas of (1) undefined universes; (2) noncomparable goals; (3) identifying reproducible conditions; (4) saturation; and (5)…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Educational Innovation, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education