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Tang, Hui-Wen Vivian – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2011
The main purpose of this study is to fill a substantial knowledge gap regarding reaching a uniform group decision in English curriculum design and planning. A comprehensive content-based course criterion model extracted from existing literature and expert opinions was developed. Analytical hierarchy process (AHP) was used to identify the relative…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Curriculum Design, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Cheung, Chau-kiu; Lee, Tak-yan – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2010
Character education is supposed to meet early adolescents' need (i.e., eighth and ninth graders) for strengthening social competence. Moreover, adolescents' engagement in character education is integral to their learning from the education. The engagement and deficit in social competence are therefore plausible conditions for the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Early Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Grade 9
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Britan, Gerald M. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1978
The distinction between experimental evaluation (which employs generalizable analyses of discrete causes and effects) and contextual evaluation (which examines particular program operations holistically) is articulated. Program characteristics are examined and linked to experimental and contextual models of program evaluation. (Author/MH)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Context Clues, Evaluation Methods, Holistic Evaluation
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Kutash, Krista; Banks, Steve; Duchnowski, Albert; Lynn, Nancy – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2007
Evaluating school-based mental health services for children and youth with emotional disturbance (ED) has been a challenge for researchers. One particular challenge is the study design of using the student as the statistical unit of analysis, which in certain cases may lead to a violation of the "independence of error" assumption.…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Mental Health Programs, Caregivers, Mental Health
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Guydish, J.; Markley, Robert P. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1986
A consumer-oriented program evaluation of a master's level clinical psychology training program is reported. A goal attainment model of evaluation was employed, requiring specification of program goals, development of goal-related objectives and hypotheses, and formulation of recommendations for program modification based on results achieved.…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Goal Orientation, Higher Education, Models
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Strasser, Stephen; Deniston, O. Lynn – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1978
Factors involved in pre-planned and post-planned evaluation of program effectiveness are compared: (1) reliability and cost of data; (2) internal and external validity; (3) obtrusiveness and threat; (4) goal displacement and program direction. A model to help program administrators decide which approach is more appropriate is presented. (Author/MH)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Decision Making, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
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Hackler, James C. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1978
The traditional experimental-control group method for evaluating delinquency prevention programs is questioned. It is contended that the method harms the intervention and exacerbates the deliquency problem. (JKS)
Descriptors: Delinquency Prevention, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs
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Funderburk, Frank R.; And Others – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1993
Development, implementation, and evaluation of a treatment program for 222 violent criminal offenders with alcohol abuse or alcoholism are described. Evaluation of the program, with quasi-experimental techniques, shows that active program clients engage in fewer violent crimes and show improved life functioning in employment and social adjustment…
Descriptors: Adults, Alcoholism, Change, Clinics
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Fielden, Sarah J.; Rusch, Melanie L.; Masinda, Mambo Tabu; Sands, Jim; Frankish, Jim; Evoy, Brian – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2007
Community-academic partnership research is a fairly new genre of community-based participatory research. It has arisen in part, from recognition of the potential role of alliances in the development and translation of applied knowledge and the elimination of health disparities. This paper reports on the learning process of academic and community…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Program Design, Participatory Research
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Russ-Eft, Darlene – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1986
This paper describes the conduct and the results of an evaluability assessment of the Adult Education Program, PL 91-230. It presents the findings on the intended program, the actual program, the plausibility of the objectives, the measurement of the objectives, and the program evaluability and options for improvement. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adults