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Kathryn McEwan; Melissa Girling; Angela Bate; Joanne Atkinson; Amanda Clarke; Sonia Dalkin – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2024
A crucial part of theory-driven realist thinking is retroduction, the process of looking backwards for explanation of how and why things may be. Conducted early in the realist evaluation process, it provides a foundation for evidenced 'theory gleaning'. Despite retroduction being an inherent part of the realist process, it is often 'hidden' in…
Descriptors: Patients, Death, Caring, Community Services
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Katja Adl-Amini; Vanessa A. Völlinger; Agnes Eckart – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
Cooperative learning (CL) refers to teaching methods in which students work in small groups to help one another learn and improve their learning outcomes. Often CL is described by five basic elements: (1) positive interdependence, (2) individual accountability, (3) promotive interaction, (4) social skills and (5) group processing. The positive…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Educational Quality, Cooperative Learning, Teacher Attitudes
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Al Hudib, Hind; Cousins, J. Bradley – American Journal of Evaluation, 2022
Evaluation policy has been identified as an important means of shaping and influencing organizational evaluation practice, yet, to date, little empirical research has been conducted to deepen our understanding of this relationship. The purpose of this study was to illuminate evaluation policy's role in leveraging organizational capacity to do and…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Policy, Institutional Evaluation
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Clapham, Andrew – Journal of Educational Change, 2023
Educators working in museums, zoos, and botanic gardens are increasingly required to demonstrate impact. These requirements position 'performative evaluation' as the dominant model, one which also acts as a political, non-neutral, and managerial form of accountability. In contrast, 'practice evaluation' is intended to be democratic, dialogic, and…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Museums, Recreational Facilities, Gardening
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Floyd, Alan – Professional Development in Education, 2022
Over recent years, the professional development review process has risen in importance in universities with such exercises being shown to have a positive effect on student learning, staff motivation, recruitment and retention. However, they may also be perceived as a controlling mechanism and part of a culture of 'performativity', which implies a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Program Evaluation, Universities
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April L. Murphy; Laneshia R. Conner; Austin Weiler; Becky Anthony; Jennifer R. Jewell; Victoria Venable – Journal of Social Work Education, 2024
Social work education programs in the U.S. are accredited by the Council on Social Work Education. Amendments made to the 2022 competencies reflect antiracism language, which requires assessment opportunities in the classroom moving forward. An assessment tool that assesses efficacy across the four domains, specifically related to antiracism, is…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Racism, Accreditation (Institutions)
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Jina Ro – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2025
In this study, the South Korean policy of evaluating the nation's entire teacher education programmes regularly, which was introduced amid the globalization and rising popularity of neoliberal education reforms, was examined. Over the years, this policy has been criticized widely for its minimal impact on transforming teacher education. Employing…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Teacher Education Programs, Evaluation Methods, Accountability
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Justin Rogers-Cooper; Rejitha Nair; Arthur O'Keeffe – Intersection: A Journal at the Intersection of Assessment and Learning, 2024
In this essay, we explore program reviews as important sites for the tension Peter Ewell defines at the core of outcomes assessment practices: that is, between assessing for accountability and assessing for improvement. We address this tension through the example of our Industrial Design program on our urban campus in New York City. In exploring…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Urban Schools, Industrial Education, Program Evaluation
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Ahmed, Eman I.; Mohammed, Amal – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2022
Given the calls to reinforce the accountability of education programmes, this review evaluated studies that evaluated K-12 global citizenship education (GCED) programmes to assess the evidence that such programmes improved the students' global learning. There are no current reviews assessing the impact of GCED programmes in the US. The authors…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Accountability, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
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Mamabolo, Martha Motshaki; Malatji, Khashane Stephen; Mphahlele, Lydia Kgomotso – South African Journal of Education, 2022
The aim of the study reported on here was to evaluate the roles of supervisors in the implementation of the Integrated Quality Management System (IQMS) in South African schools. The supervisors are the School Management Teams (SMTs), namely principals, deputy principals, or heads of department (HoD), circuit managers, and district coordinators. We…
Descriptors: Supervisors, Role, Management Systems, Program Implementation
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Lamia, Tamara L.; Lowry, Garry F.; McLees, Anita W.; Frazier, Cassandra M.; Young, Andrea C. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2021
The flexibility federal block grants provide recipients poses challenges for evaluation. These challenges include aggregating data on wide-ranging activities grant recipients implement and the outcomes they achieve. In 2014, we began designing an evaluation to address the challenges of assessing outcomes and to improve outcome accountability for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Grants, Program Evaluation, Health Services
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Perez, Alexandra Lane; Evans, Carla – Applied Measurement in Education, 2023
New Hampshire's Performance Assessment of Competency Education (PACE) innovative assessment system uses student scores from classroom performance assessments as well as other classroom tests for school accountability purposes. One concern is that not having annual state testing may incentivize schools and teachers away from teaching the breadth of…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Competency Based Education, Evaluation Methods, Educational Innovation
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Miranda de Hei; Inge Audenaerde – Higher Education Studies, 2023
In this study, we regard co-creation as a collaborative process where students, lecturers and working field professionals from outside the university jointly develop innovative products, processes or knowledge. In co-creation all stakeholders equally contribute to the collaborative process and aim to create beneficial outcomes for each…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Partnerships in Education, Cooperative Learning, Questionnaires
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Pasaoglulari Sahin, Nil; Olgaç Türker, Özlem – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to explore ways of developing, implementing and validating a new framework and criteria for self-evaluation of programme curricula, with specific reference to the quality assurance certification process in a particular case. Design/methodology/approach: The framework is developed using a case study research methodology and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Program Evaluation, Quality Assurance, Self Evaluation (Groups)
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Varmuza, Petr; Perlman, Michal; Falenchuk, Olesya – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2021
In the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) sector there is a move to reduce oversight costs by reducing the frequency of quality assessments in providers who score highly consistently across time. However, virtually nothing is known about the stability of ECEC quality assessments over time. Using a validated measure of overall classroom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers, Educational Quality
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