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Download full textS. Soliday Hong; R. C. Carr; R. Seifer; A. Nambiar; J. Walker – FPG Child Development Institute, 2023
This is the executive summary for the report "North Carolina Pre-K Pyramid Model Evaluation Study: Implementation and Outcomes Evaluation Study Final Results." The report is an assessment of a pilot implementation of the NC Preschool Pyramid Model (Pyramid Model), a social-emotional coaching program to support NC Pre-K teachers to engage…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers
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Direct linkMott, Rebecca – Journal of Extension, 2018
With today's technology, Extension professionals have a variety of tools available for program evaluation. This article describes an innovative platform called VoiceThread that has been used in many classrooms but also is useful for conducting virtual focus group research. I explain how this tool can be used to collect qualitative participant…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Extension Education, Qualitative Research
Burbaugh, Bradley; Seibel, Seibel,; Archibald, Thomas – Journal of Leadership Education, 2017
The linkages between interventions and outcomes of leadership initiatives have been insufficiently studied. To better understand these links, the Virginia agricultural leadership program conducted a pathway mapping session to investigate the program's theory of change. In this novel process, program participants engaged in collaborative…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Intervention, Agricultural Education, Learning Activities
John, Aesha; Bang, Eun-Jun – Journal of Social Work Education, 2017
This article describes a teaching innovation that focused on the redesign of an undergraduate social work research class. Students enrolled in the redesigned class had an opportunity to conduct program evaluation projects in community agencies. The projects included (a) pretest and posttest evaluation of reminiscence approach in improving the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Program Evaluation, Student Projects, Social Work
Carroll, Jan. B.; Dinstel, Roxie Rogers; Manton, Linda Marie – Journal of Extension, 2015
In every era, publicly funded programs seek to document their value. During the centennial celebrations of Cooperative Extension's legislation and establishment, this cry for data became even louder and the demand more intense. The Western Extension Directors Association (WEDA) tasked their Western Region Program Leadership Committee (WRPLC) to…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Management Information Systems
Stanley, Tony – Child Care in Practice, 2014
A recommendation from the Social Work Task Force was that all employers of social workers should conduct a regular "health check" of the social work profession to learn from practice as part of a continuous cycle of improvement. This article documents how the London Borough of Tower Hamlets has gone about this. I describe the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Work, Caseworkers, Child Welfare
Jenkins, Carolyn; Arulogun, Oyedunni Sola; Singh, Arti; Mande, Aliyu T.; Ajayi, Eric; Benedict, Calys Tagoe; Ovbiagele, Bruce; Lackland, Daniel T.; Sarfo, Fred Stephen; Akinyemi, Rufus; Akpalu, Albert; Obiako, Reginald; Melikam, Enzinne Sylvia; Laryea, Ruth; Shidali, Vincent; Sagoe, Kwamena; Ibinaiye, Philip; Fakunle, Adekunie Gregory; Owolabi, Lukman F.; Owolabi, Mayowa O. – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
Stroke is the leading cause of neurological hospital admissions in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the second leading cause of death globally. The Stroke Investigative Research and Education Network [SIREN] seeks to comprehensively characterize the genomic, sociocultural, economic, and behavioral risk factors for stroke and to build effective teams…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neurological Impairments, Medical Research, Health Education
Ferrer, Erica; Pérez, Yuddy – Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2017
Program evaluation is a process of carefully collecting information in order to make informed decisions to strengthen specific components of a given program. The type of evaluation an institution decides to undertake depends on the purpose as well as on the information the institution wants to find out about its program. Self-evaluation represents…
Descriptors: Health Sciences, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Nelson, Amy Grack; Cohn, Sarah – Journal of Museum Education, 2015
Museums often evaluate various aspects of their audiences' experiences, be it what they learn from a program or how they react to an exhibition. Each museum program or exhibition has its own set of goals, which can drive what an evaluator studies and how an evaluation evolves. When designing an evaluation, data collection methods are purposefully…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Research Methodology, Program Evaluation, Museums
Theadore, Geraldine; Laurent, Amy; Kovarsky, Dana; Weiss, Amy L. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2011
Reflective practice requires that professionals carefully examine and integrate multiple sources of information when designing intervention and evaluating its effectiveness. This article describes the use of focus group discussion as a form of qualitative research for understanding parents' perspectives of a university-based intervention program…
Descriptors: Reflection, Focus Groups, Qualitative Research, Parent Attitudes
Hendricks, Alison; Conradi, Lisa; Wilson, Charles – Child Welfare, 2011
This article describes a community assessment process designed to evaluate a specific child welfare jurisdiction based on the current definition of trauma-informed child welfare and its essential elements. This process has recently been developed and pilot tested within three diverse child welfare systems in the United States. The purpose of the…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Trauma, Identification, Barriers
ACPA College Student Educators International, 2011
The Assessment Skills and Knowledge (ASK) standards seek to articulate the areas of content knowledge, skill and dispositions that student affairs professionals need in order to perform as practitioner-scholars to assess the degree to which students are mastering the learning and development outcomes the professionals intend. Consistent with…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, Standards, Evaluation Methods, Data Collection
Riley, Tracy; Moltzen, Roger – Kairaranga, 2011
Between 2006 and 2008 the Ministry of Education funded the evaluation of three Talent Development Initiatives for gifted and talented students. The methodology employed was one of participatory action research, a process of evaluation that enables learning by doing, as researchers and practitioners work alongside one another. Through the process…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Gifted, Action Research, Talent
Deutsch, Nancy L.; Spencer, Renee – New Directions for Youth Development, 2009
Mentoring programs pose some special challenges for quality assessment because they operate at two levels: that of the dyadic relationship and that of the program. Fully assessing the quality of youth mentoring relationships requires understanding the characteristics and processes of individual relationships, which are the point of service for…
Descriptors: Mentors, Program Effectiveness, Focus Groups, Program Evaluation
Forsythe, Hazel; Andrews, Frances; Stanley, M. Sue; Anderson, Carol L. – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2011
To ensure optimal standards for AAFCS program accreditation, the Council for Accreditation (CFA) conducted a review and revision of the "2001 AAFCS Standards for Accreditation." The CFA took a three-pronged approach including (a) a review of academic accreditations that had relationships to the FCS disciplines, (b) concept, content, and process…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Academic Standards, Educational Quality, Guidelines
