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Baartman, Liesbeth K. J.; Prins, Frans J.; Kirschner, Paul A.; van der Vleuten, Cees P. M. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2011
The goal of this article is to contribute to the validation of a self-evaluation method, which can be used by schools to evaluate the quality of their Competence Assessment Program (CAP). The outcomes of the self-evaluations of two schools are systematically compared: a novice school with little experience in competence-based education and…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Competency Based Education, Self Evaluation (Groups), Program Validation
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Keating, Daniel P. – Early Education and Development, 2007
This article is a commentary for the special issue on the Early Development Instrument (EDI), a community tool to assess children's school readiness and developmental outcomes at a group level. The EDI is administered by kindergarten teachers, who assess their kindergarten students on 5 developmental domains: physical health and well-being, social…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Formative Evaluation, Kindergarten, Cognitive Development
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Harniss, Mark K. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2006
This article explores instructionally useful assessment in the social studies. In the first section, the concept of usefulness is discussed as a function of the alignment between goals, instruction, and assessment. Next, three approaches to instructionally useful assessment are reported, followed by a case scenario suggesting how these disparate…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teaching Methods, Theory Practice Relationship, Case Studies
Merrimack Education Center, Chelmsford, MA. – 1977
This report, the second of three prepared for the Massachusetts Department of Education, focuses on a formative evaluation which identifies descrepancies between innovative Title IV-C educational programs as planned and as the programs operated. Contents are organized in five main chapters each of which represents a different perspective but all…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Diffusion, Educational Innovation, Educational Programs
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Bober, Christopher F.; Bartlett, Kenneth R. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2004
This study examined the use of training program evaluation results in corporate universities. Specifically, the study attempted to determine which organizational members use evaluation data, and for what purposes, and identify the factors that are related to the use of evaluation results. The study was designed to test the appropriateness of the…
Descriptors: Universities, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Utilization, Evaluation Methods
Karl, Luis C. – 2000
A formative committee conducted a developmental study to produce a program evaluation instrument (PEI) that would be effective in conducting an adult basic education (ABE) program evaluation study at Nicolet Area Technical College (NATC). Five procedures were used to complete this product. First, a literature review was conducted that assisted in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Evaluation Criteria, Formative Evaluation, Literature Reviews