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Acquiring Knowledge of Implementation and Change: Essential for Program Evaluators?
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Owen, John M.; And Others – Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, 1994
Discusses strategies designed to increase the instrumental use of program evaluation findings based on experiences in Australian schools. Highlights include an evaluation plan; awareness of the evaluation; timely reporting techniques; guidelines for implementation of findings; and the role of the evaluator as change agent. (Contains 21…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research
Preserving Data about the Knowledge Creation Process: Developing an Archive on the Cold Fusion Controversy.
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Lewenstein, Bruce V. – Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, 1991
Describes the creation of the Cold Fusion Archive at Cornell University and raises questions about documenting how scientific knowledge is created, diffused, and evaluated. Types of materials collected are described; issues involving the acquisition, organization, and preservation of materials are addressed; and the scope and limitations of…
Descriptors: Archives, Data Collection, Electronic Mail, Evaluation Methods
The Dilemmas of Change: Lessons from a School Improvement Effort Gone Awry.
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Ruscoe, Gordon C.; Miller, Stephen K. – Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, 1991
Describes a research project conducted in Kentucky that developed and tested the Kentucky Teacher Inventory, a set of teacher evaluation instruments that could be used to determine career path advancement and to examine teacher attitudes and use of that information as a means to promote school effectiveness. Effective knowledge utilization is…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, School Effectiveness