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Curry, Dale; Eckles, Frank; Stuart, Carol; Qaqish, Basil – Child Welfare, 2010
This article provides an overview of the history, development, and conceptual framework guiding a national certification initiative for child and youth care workers. Summarized are descriptions of three certification assessment measures (supervisor assessment, situational judgment certification exam, and portfolio assessment), integrated with…
Descriptors: Caring, Portfolio Assessment, Program Effectiveness, Teacher Certification
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Febey, Karen; Coyne, Molly – American Journal of Evaluation, 2007
The field of program evaluation lacks interactive teaching tools. To address this pedagogical issue, the authors developed a collaborative learning technique called Program Evaluation: The Board Game. The authors present the game and its development in this practitioner-oriented article. The evaluation board game is an adaptable teaching tool…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Cooperative Learning
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Pass, Kenneth; Green, Nancy S.; Lorey, Fred; Sherwin, John; Comeau, Anne Marie – Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2006
The term "pilot study" has been used over the years to describe the evaluation of the many elements involved in deciding whether a proposed condition should be added to a newborn screening (NBS) panel, and until recently, was unilaterally used to describe the evaluation of the assay to be used before the condition was officially adopted by a state…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Neonates, Screening Tests, Infant Care
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Ketterlin-Geller, Leanne R.; McCoy, Jan D.; Twyman, Todd; Tindal, Gerald – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2006
Curriculum-based measurement is a system for monitoring students' progress and formatively evaluating instruction backed by 25 years of validation research. Most of this research has been conducted in elementary schools. In middle and high school classrooms, where there is an emphasis on mastering content knowledge, elementary-level measurements…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Academic Achievement, Cloze Procedure, Program Validation
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de Freitas, Sara; Harrison, Ian; Magoulas, George; Mee, Adrian; Mohamad, Fitri; Oliver, Martin; Papamarkos, George; Poulovassilis, Alexandra – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2006
Given the rapidly changing skills needs of post-industrial economies, lifelong learning forms an integral part of government policy within the UK and abroad. However, like the UK, most economies are faced with the problem of how to reach those sections of the community that have traditionally not embraced learning and educational opportunities. In…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Program Development, Program Evaluation
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Jette, Alan M.; And Others – Gerontologist, 1981
Describes a diversified approach to delivering home care to vulnerable older people. This pilot program, funded by the Massachusetts Department of Elder Affairs, attempted to reduce the demand for scarce homemaker services. Results suggest homecare diversification did not alter consumer satisfaction but increased manager time. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Daily Living Skills, Delivery Systems, Gerontology
Alvy, Kerby T.; Rubin, Howard Stanley – 1979
In the child mental health and child abuse fields, parent training has become a highly valued prevention and treatment service. A conceptual framework and a detailed description of three theoretically-based parent training approaches (Client-Centered, Adlerian, and Social Learning) are presented as background for this report on a two-year pilot…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Children, Conferences, Human Services
Owens, Thomas R. – 1977
This final evaluation report describes and summarizes the evaluation findings for the 1976-77 school year of the Northwest Regional Education Laboratory (NWREL) Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) Program. Following an executive summary, the report is organized into five chapters, plus a separate volume of appendixes. Chapter I summarizes the…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Community Involvement, Cooperative Education
Creative Research Associates, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. – 1977
An evaluation of the Experience Based Career Education (EBCE) Program of the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCEBCE) for summer, 1977, was conducted to provide preliminary information for the three-year program effort to use in program planning and decision making for the 1977-78 school year. DCEBCE was evaluated using the Context, Input,…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Career Development, Career Education, Career Exploration