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Smith, Ron; McCully, Alan – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
During 2004, the School of Education at the University of Ulster embarked on an innovative three-year project designed to embed community relations objectives within initial teacher education. With the advent of more peaceful times in Northern Ireland, this was a precipitous time for initial teacher educators to review the preparation given to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Student Diversity, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Ratliff, Clancy – Composition Forum, 2013
This profile describes a new WPA's choice to work incrementally to assess an inherited, fledgling First-Year Writing curriculum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and change it over a three-year period with continual stakeholder involvement. The methods used for assessment were two rounds of instructor surveys and three rounds of direct…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Curriculum Design, Freshman Composition, Local History
Struyk, Raymond J.; Damon, Mawadda; Haddaway, Samuel R. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2011
The international community has identified a positive link between good governance and economic development. There is an increasing appreciation of the effective role that local policy research organizations (PROs) can play in providing evidence-based policy recommendations as the basis for sound legislation and in assessing the efficacy of…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Mentors, Program Evaluation, Construction Programs
Fox, Janet; Cater, Melissa – Journal of Extension, 2011
This article provides a critical perspective on the increasing involvement of young people in participatory evaluation as well as identifies the factors to consider when designing a youth-led evaluation project. Through this avenue, young people will increase their participation in organizational development and community change. Youth-led…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Young Adults, Performance Factors, Participatory Research
Baizerman, Michael; Compton, Donald W. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2009
Case studies about managing evaluation are examined for perspectives on expertise in managing evaluation. There are lessons on a geography of managing, managing as organizational work, the notions of "competency" and "expertise," and managing evaluation as professional work. Dreyfus and Dreyfus (2004) offer a framework for an introductory…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Expertise, Program Evaluation, Administrative Principles
Baizerman, Michael – New Directions for Evaluation, 2009
Depth, resonance, and shadow are added to how the expertise of managing evaluation could be grasped and understood. Returning to the notion of "competency" (Stevahn, King, Ghere, & Minnema, 2005), this is contrasted more deeply with Dreyfus and Dreyfus's (2004) conception of expert and to its use in nursing by Benner (2004; Benner, Tanner, &…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Program Evaluation, Organizational Theories, Expertise
Ballantyne, Scott; Berret, Beth; Wells, Mary Ellen – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011
Planning in Reverse is an innovative concept designed to make organizations more successful by altering the perspective utilized in the strategy process. What is needed for organizations to thrive in this new environment of change and uncertainty is a short-term approach for long-term viability. In this book, tools and concepts regarding Planning…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Private Sector, Public Sector, Organizational Development
Fourney, Andrew; Gregson, Jennifer; Sugerman, Sharon; Bellow, Andrew – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2011
From 2004-2008, capacity to conduct program evaluation was built among the "Network for a Healthy California's" 48 largest local partners. Capacity building was done within a framework of Empowerment Evaluation and Utility-Focused evaluation. Tools included: a Scope of Work template, a handbook, a compendium of surveys, an evaluation…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Nutrition, Technical Assistance, Nutrition Instruction
Volkov, Boris B. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2011
This chapter features a recent conversation with Dr. Arnold J. Love, a long-time proponent of internal evaluation and one of the most cited internal evaluation authors. In 1983, Love edited the first issue of "New Directions for Program Evaluation" on the topic of internal evaluation. He is the author of the book "Internal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Interviews, Organizational Development
Baizerman, Michael; Compton, Donald W. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2009
Here the essentials of the expertise of managing are presented as orientation toward (ethos, stance, and gaze), knowledge about, and knowledge how-to ("know-how"). These are grounded to specific content, summarized, and then connected to a typology of managing evaluation. The orienting questions for the field are reviewed to reveal what it means…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Career Development, Program Evaluation, Organizational Theories
Schalock, Robert L.; Verdugo, Miguel Angel – Brookes Publishing Company, 2012
Effective, efficient, and sustainable ID/DD organizations: are they possible in today's world of dwindling resources and mounting demands for more and better services? Yes--with the practical tools and strategies in this lifeline for ID/DD leaders. Developed by two of the most trusted authorities in the disability field, this innovative business…
Descriptors: Evidence, Total Quality Management, Leadership, Decision Making
Behrens, Teresa R.; Kelly, Thomas – New Directions for Evaluation, 2008
An overview is presented of forces that have shaped how public and private funders approach evaluation, including the challenges that funders, and particularly foundations, face in effectively using evaluation within an organizational learning framework. Even with internal organizational challenges to learning, foundations are increasingly…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Program Evaluation, Measurement, Philanthropic Foundations
Xingzhi, Shanxi Tao – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
This article reports the achievement of a nine-year program in which students from Xinzhou Normal College participate in semester-long substitute teaching in disadvantaged schools in a poverty-stricken area of Shanxi province. The substitute teaching, which constitutes an important part of the 411 Project by Xinzhou Normal College, takes place in…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Professional Training, Substitute Teachers, Investigations
Yeo, Kee Meng; Mayadas, A. Frank – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2010
The Sloan Pillars have set the standard for university-wide online learning program assessment for more than a dozen years. In this paper, the authors propose the extension of the Pillars to corporate e-learning, offering an alternative to traditional enterprise learning assessments. Claiming that conventional methods stress individual courses or…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Cost Effectiveness, Corporate Education, Educational Assessment
Kelly, Melissa A.; Kaczynski, Dan – American Journal of Evaluation, 2008
The authors present an approach for educating future evaluators by connecting evaluation theory and practice, organizational development, and grant making through experiential learning. They position this discussion on the conceptual framework of a newly developed graduate-level evaluation course, Advanced Program Development and Evaluation, which…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Experiential Learning, Program Development, Organizational Development