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Ellington, Roni; Barajas, Clara B.; Drahota, Amy; Meghea, Cristian; Uphold, Heatherlun; Scott, Jamil B.; Lewis, E. Yvonne; Furr-Holden, C. Debra – American Journal of Evaluation, 2022
Over the last few decades, there has been an increase in the number of large federally funded transdisciplinary programs and initiatives. Scholars have identified a need to develop frameworks, methodologies, and tools to evaluate the effectiveness of these large collaborative initiatives, providing precise ways to understand and assess the…
Descriptors: Evaluation Research, Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Methods, Program Evaluation
Ackerman, Debra J.; Coley, Richard J. – Educational Testing Service, 2012
Preschool education is increasingly being recognized as an integral part of efforts to ensure that all children enter school ready to learn and as a way to help close the achievement gaps that exist at the time children enter kindergarten. Such efforts are growing across the country. According to the most recent data, 54 different preschool…
Descriptors: Learning Readiness, Student Evaluation, Preschool Education, Young Children
Hollenbeck, Kevin M. – National Research Center for Career and Technical Education, 2011
In recent work, the author has estimated the rate of return for several workforce development programs in the State of Washington, including secondary and postsecondary career and technical education (CTE; Hollenbeck, 2008). The returns are based on estimates of the net impact of CTE on individuals' labor market experiences and government income…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Program Effectiveness, Education Work Relationship, Technical EducationVocational Education
Stockard, Jean – Current Issues in Education, 2010
A large body of literature documents the central importance of fidelity of program implementation in creating an internally valid research design and considering such fidelity in judgments of research quality. The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) provides web-based summary ratings of educational innovations and is the only rating group that is…
Descriptors: Research Design, Educational Innovation, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness
McLachlan, Claire; Arrow, Alison – Literacy, 2011
Although priding itself on high rates of literacy achievement, New Zealand's track record in the last two decades has noticeably declined. Successive New Zealand governments have invested heavily in trying to redress this decline with limited success. Demographic changes in population due to immigration provide a partial explanation, but arguably,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Literacy
Wu, Margaret – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2010
In large-scale assessments, such as state-wide testing programs, national sample-based assessments, and international comparative studies, there are many steps involved in the measurement and reporting of student achievement. There are always sources of inaccuracies in each of the steps. It is of interest to identify the source and magnitude of…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Educational Assessment, Measures (Individuals), Program Effectiveness
Oldham, Erin; Sprague, Peg – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2008
Scientifically-based child assessment tools, observation, screening, portfolios, individualized research-based curriculum are now requirements for accreditation by the NAEYC. Head Start has set them as expectations in their performance standards. And increasingly, entities that fund early childhood programs are looking to the use of child…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Needs Assessment, Program Effectiveness, Kindergarten
Cummings, Rhoda; Maddux, Cleborne D.; Richmond, Aaron – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2008
Increasingly, institutions of higher education are required to evaluate student progress and programme effectiveness through implementation of performance assessment practices. Faculty members frequently resist performance assessment because of concerns that assessment activities will increase workloads, reduce time for scholarly activities,…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Performance Based Assessment, Performance Tests, Program Effectiveness

Germanis, Peter; Besharov, Douglas J. – Evaluation Review, 2000
Describes the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and reviews and assesses research on its impact. Recommends policy reforms and randomized experiments to evaluate the program and any changes made to it. Weaknesses in research to date make the real impacts of WIC unclear. (Contains 79 references.) (SLD)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Nutrition, Policy Formation
Schroeder, Randall; Mashek, Kimberly Babcock – Public Services Quarterly, 2007
The use of rigorous assessment in an Information Literacy program can be used to persuade reluctant faculty and administrators to buy into a program. A "culture of assessment" also assures quality control for internal and external audiences. Information Literacy at Wartburg College is unique in that it is a required component of five…
Descriptors: Quality Control, Program Effectiveness, Information Literacy, Program Evaluation
Alamprese, Judith A. – 1984
The issue of evaluation in adult literacy is addressed in this paper. It is assumed that evaluation is a necessary and vital function in an adult literacy program because it helps administrators understand their efforts, increases information available about a program's functioning, builds an image, and facilitates the discovery of information on…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Evaluation Needs, Evaluation Problems, Information Needs
Schulte, Ann C.; Easton, Julia E.; Parker, Justin – School Psychology Review, 2009
Documenting treatment integrity is an important issue in research and practice in any discipline concerned with prevention and intervention. However, consensus concerning the dimensions of treatment integrity and how they should be measured has yet to emerge. Advances from three areas in which significant treatment integrity work has taken…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Prevention, Outcomes of Treatment, School Psychology

Newburn, Tim – Children & Society, 2001
Discusses the history of evaluation research, focusing on current emphasis on "evidence-based policy." Highlights five issues emerging as relevant: evaluation can be done in many ways, serious doubts exist about the usefulness of the term "evaluation," evaluation is held back by paradigm wars, views of evaluation are…
Descriptors: Definitions, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Foreign Countries
Nance, Earthea – American Journal of Evaluation, 2005
A multistakeholder evaluation procedure is presented to address the many challenges in evaluating the performance of condominial sewer projects in Brazil. Condominial sewerage is a promising appropriate technology that is coproduced by users and public agencies, but little is known about project performance. This article shows that…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Public Health
Kay, Robin H. – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2006
The use of online discussion boards has grown extensively in the past 5 years, yet some researchers argue that our understanding of how to use this tool in an effective and meaningful way is minimal at best. Part of the problem in acquiring more cohesive and useful information rests in the absence of a comprehensive, theory-driven metric to assess…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Difficulty Level, Reaction Time, Computer Mediated Communication
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