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The Utility of the Knowledge Use System in a Higher Education Evaluation Setting.
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Brown-McGowan, Sharon; Eichelberger, R. Tony – Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, 1993
Describes use of the Knowledge Use System, originally developed as a tool for corporate market research to overcome obstacles to implementation, in a higher education setting to delineate decision-maker variables and characteristics that may impede the utilization of evaluation results. Implications for future research and for higher education are…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Futures (of Society)
The Dilemmas of Change: Lessons from a School Improvement Effort Gone Awry.
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Ruscoe, Gordon C.; Miller, Stephen K. – Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, 1991
Describes a research project conducted in Kentucky that developed and tested the Kentucky Teacher Inventory, a set of teacher evaluation instruments that could be used to determine career path advancement and to examine teacher attitudes and use of that information as a means to promote school effectiveness. Effective knowledge utilization is…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, School Effectiveness
Data on the Federal Research System in the United States: What's Known and What's Not.
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Chubin, Daryl E.; Robinson, Elizabeth M. – Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, 1991
Discusses a study conducted by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) which examined the federally funded research system and the role of data for decision making in research policy. Highlights include data needs; research expenditures and personnel; the research process; measuring the outcomes of research; and the research evaluation process.…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Expenditures