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On Aggregation, Generalization, and Utility in Educational Evaluation.
Hayman, John; And Others – 1979
The cross-levels hypothesis is presented as an explanation for program evaluation failures. It states that the usefulness of evaluation data as feedback for decision making varies inversely with the number of organizational levels between the action the data describe, and the decisions they are intended to influence. To be useful for decision…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods