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Chang, Chew Hung; Seow, Tricia – Geographical Education, 2018
The word "test" comes to mind when a person, who is unacquainted with education discourses, reads about assessment issues. Beyond issues of reliability and validity in designing measurement constructs, assessment for school geography must result in better geographical learning. In other words, there must be "consequential…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Student Evaluation, Skill Development, Test Validity
Kashima, Yuri; Schleich, Bridget; Spradlin, Terry – Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University, 2009
The recent special report, "Indiana's Vision of Response to Intervention" issued by the Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) was the first of a three-part series aimed to build a fundamental understanding of a Response-to-Intervention (RTI) framework in Indiana's schools to aid in the prevention and intervention of both…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Core Curriculum, Evidence, Student Evaluation
Research for Action, 2011
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has invested in the development and dissemination of instructional tools to support teachers' incorporation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) into their classroom instruction. Math experts have developed formative assessment lessons (FALs) that teachers can incorporate throughout the year's curriculum.…
Descriptors: State Standards, Formative Evaluation, Suburban Schools, Urban Schools
Teachman, Goody – 1980
A survey was conducted of members of the Ontario Modern Language Teachers' Association, resulting in an evaluation of the core French-as-a-second-language program for grades 7 to 13. Results indicate that the use of video is not a significant part of regular classroom activities, a fact which is viewed as a problem to be overcome. The teachers are…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Cultural Education, Formative Evaluation, French
Rogers, Julia S.; And Others – 1989
A formative evaluation of curricular effectiveness of the General Education (GE) Program at the University of Montevallo, an Alabama state-supported liberal arts institution, is described. The GE Program is divided into 11 core areas. The American College Testing Program's College Outcomes Measures Program (COMP) objective test--a test of general…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Students, Core Curriculum
Lai, Morris K. – 1984
This quantitative/qualitative evaluation of an 80-hour course integrating the SCOPE Computer Program in Mathematics and Science into the curriculum for students, grades 6-12, was conducted to: (1) provide immediate feedback to facilitate improvement of the program; (2) determine course effects; and (3) provide practitioners with an effective…
Descriptors: Action Research, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Core Curriculum
Schilling, Donald G. – 1981
The paper discusses the choice of world history as a foundation course in the liberal arts college at Denison University, Ohio. It discusses why world history was chosen as a required course over the standard, introductory course, Western Civilization, compulsory in the 1960s. It also describes the kind and design of the world history course…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Core Curriculum, Course Content, Course Descriptions