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Nolton, Esther; Powell, Marvin; Varier, Divya; Caracelli, Valerie Jean; Hopson, Rodney K. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2021
Despite marked growth in evaluation use and capacity in the U.S. Federal Government over the last 50 years, the levers that have driven institutional change have not previously been identified. This ethnographic study mapped the process and factors that have led to the diffusion of value in evaluation in the U.S. Federal Government. Analyses of…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Federal Government, Program Evaluation, Public Policy
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Duke, Adrienne M.; Sollie, Donna L.; Silva, Kelcie – Journal of Extension, 2016
We conducted a youth participatory evaluation of a bullying prevention curriculum before the curriculum was implemented in communities. We partnered with youths from a young women leaders' program to reduce the number of lessons in an existing curriculum and determine which activities were likely to have the greatest impact. To evaluate the…
Descriptors: Bullying, Prevention, Youth Programs, Student Participation
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Baughman, Sarah; Boyd, Heather H.; Franz, Nancy K. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012
Increasing demands for accountability in educational programming have resulted in increasing calls for program evaluation in educational organizations. Many organizations include conducting program evaluations as part of the job responsibilities of program staff. Cooperative Extension is a complex organization offering non-formal educational…
Descriptors: Nonformal Education, Evaluation Utilization, Program Evaluation, Accountability
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Vanover, Charles; Hodges, Olivia – School Leadership & Management, 2015
This case study uses evidence collected for accreditation and programme improvement at a small university Master's and certification programme in Educational Leadership Development to describe efforts to help leadership candidates use data during the programme's final internship experience. Programme features supporting the growth of candidates'…
Descriptors: Data, Data Analysis, Internship Programs, Program Improvement
Anderson, Kimberly; Mira, Mary Elizabeth – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2014
By 2012, all of the states in this study had started implementing new or revised teacher and leader evaluation systems. There are many and varying updates to these systems, and some of them have been made to meet conditions for a state's federal "Race to the Top" (RTT) grant. Other updates have been made to meet conditions for a state's…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Program Implementation, Teacher Evaluation
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Wholey, Joseph S. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1987
Evaluability assessment is a diagnostic and prescriptive technique that can be used to determine the extent to which different problems inhibit program evaluation. It involves policymakers, managers, and staff in developing program theory, clarifying intended uses of evaluation information, and planning further evaluations that would stimulate…
Descriptors: Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Utilization, Evaluators, Measurement Techniques
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Garcia, John A.; Floyd, Charles E. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2002
Used nationwide data to examine how schools assess educational outcomes and integrate evaluation data into master's of social work (MSW) program and curriculum development. Also identifies key difficulties which programs report having encountered in addressing the Council on Social Work Education's former Evaluative Standards 1.4 and 1.5…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Educational Improvement, Evaluation Utilization, Higher Education
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Bickman, Leonard – Evaluation Review, 1985
An evaluation system which would describe and assess statewide services for preschool children is described. Component theory conceptualizes the unit of analysis for evaluation as the component. This approach increases the generalizability and utilization of evaluations and enhances the ability to evaluate several programs at the state level.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Formative Evaluation
Drummond, Robert J. – 1991
The purpose of the study described in this paper was to investigate how principals rated the competencies of beginning teachers in Florida who had graduated from the University of North Florida. The 1990-1991 study complies with the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education standard calling for teacher training institutions to…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Utilization, Excellence in Education
Hopstock, Paul; Young, Malcolm – 1993
In 1989 the Department of Education contracted with Development Associates, Inc., to conduct a review of the evaluation and improvement practices of projects funded under Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, often known as the Bilingual Education Act. The study focused on local transitional bilingual education and special…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Hopstock, Paul; And Others – 1993
A study was conducted to review local Title VII evaluation and improvement practices, focusing on local Transitional Bilingual Education and Special Alternative Projects. This final report summarizes the findings of the study, and includes a separate report on 18 case studies of evaluation systems of local Title VII grantees. The study reviewed…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Yap, Kim Onn – 1983
The study involved an attempt to promote use of evaluation data in compensatory education through a technical assistance effort at the state education agencies (SEA) level. It included a secondary analysis of Hawaiian Title I longitudinal data and dissemination of findings through a series of consultations with evaluation and program personnel at…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Data Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
Schmidt, Henk G.; And Others – 1990
The ways in which a rating scale developed for problem-based medical curricula provides information that is useful in the area of curriculum reform were demonstrated in a study involving 95 first-year medical students at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec (Canada). The rating scale, based on the theory of problem-based learning of W. H.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Evaluation Utilization, Foreign Countries
Jones, Paul L.; Petry, John R. – 1985
An assessment model was developed to produce change in adult basic education (ABE) programs and thereby improve learning for adult students. During the development of the model, 89 ABE programs were analyzed. To determine the effect that ABE has on the quality of life of its students, researchers observed 77 of the 89 programs included in the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Classroom Research, Educational Assessment