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Direct linkSo, Julia Wai-Yin – Assessment Update, 2023
In this article, Julia So discusses the purpose of program assessment, four common missteps of program assessment and reporting, and how to prevent them. The four common missteps of program assessment and reporting she has observed are: (1) unclear or ambiguous program goals; (2) measurement error of program goals and outcomes; (3) incorrect unit…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Community Colleges, Evaluation Methods, Objectives
Download full textPushparatnam, Adelle; Seiden, Jonathan; Luna-Bazaldua, Diego – World Bank, 2022
A growing understanding of the importance of children's earliest years has led to an increasing desire to measure early childhood development (ECD) outcomes. There are now nearly 150 tools for measuring ECD outcomes internationally, which can make it challenging to choose an appropriate measurement tool for a given measurement effort. This…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Evaluation Methods, Early Childhood Education, Population Groups
Lawrenz, Frances; Huffman, Douglas; McGinnis, J. Randy – New Directions for Evaluation, 2007
In this article, the authors examine evaluation process use in a large multilevel, multisite core evaluation. This case highlights the nature of the evaluation processes of the Collaboratives for Excellence in Teacher Preparation (CETP) core evaluation in terms of four categories: (1) social processing; (2) engagement; (3) involvement; and (4)…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques, Evaluation Research
Alkin, Marvin C.; Christie, Christina A. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2005
The theorists whose work appears in this issue have confronted the exercise presented to them in vastly different ways. The editors of this journal asked these theorists to consider how they would evaluate the Bunche-Da Vinci program, and to make and specify assumptions about the program context. The primary task, however, was to describe "a…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Program Evaluation, Comparative Analysis, Participation
Bober, Marcie – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2004
San Diego State University's (SDSU) Learning through CyberApprenticeship program, awarded in 1999 under the Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) initiative, was built on a simple but challenging premise: to establish and develop a system through which preservice teachers enrolled in EdTec 4701 work directly with technologically…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Preservice Teachers, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Britner, Preston A.; Balcazar, Fabricio E.; Blechman, Elaine A.; Blinn-Pike, Lynn; Larose, Simon – Journal of Community Psychology, 2006
Whereas mentoring programs are well received as support services, very little empirical research has been conducted to assess the effectiveness of these programs to meet the diverse needs of different special populations of youth. Potentially useful theoretical orientations (attachment, parental acceptance-rejection, social support, adult…
Descriptors: Mentors, Risk, Adolescents, Program Effectiveness
