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Supovitz, Jonathan; Foley, Ellen; Mishook, Jacob – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2012
Data have long been considered a key factor in organizational decision-making (Simon, 1955; Lindblom & Cohen, 1979). Data offer perspective, guidance, and insights that inform policy and practice (Newell & Simon, 1972; Kennedy, 1984). Recently, education policymakers have invested in the use of data for organizational improvement in states…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Politics of Education, Educational Indicators, Management Information Systems
Brown, P. Margaret; Byrnes, Linda J. – Deafness and Education International, 2014
This study investigated the Individual Learning Plans of eighty-eight students who were deaf and hard of hearing attending facilities and schools for the deaf in Victoria Australia. The students' assessment and planning portfolios were scrutinised for evidence of formal and informal assessment used to generate goals for the Individual Learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Partial Hearing, Special Education
Hart, Ray; Casserly, Michael; Uzzell, Renata; Palacios, Moses; Corcoran, Amanda; Spurgeon, Liz – Council of the Great City Schools, 2015
There has been little data collected on how much testing actually goes on in America's schools and how the results are used. So in the Spring of 2014, the Council staff developed and launched a survey of assessment practices. This report presents the findings from that survey and subsequent Council analysis and review of the data. It also offers…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Student Evaluation, Testing Programs, Testing

Brown, Robert D.; And Others – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1985
This investigation examined the effect contextual variables had on a national sample of school board members' information needs for decision making. Importance, conflict, and content were found to be associated with board members' needs for time, information, and consultation. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Conflict Resolution, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education

Nielsen, Lore A.; Turner, Susan Douglas – Evaluation Review, 1985
This article presents a discussion of field utilization of staff development activities in the context of three separate training programs. Specifically, classroom implementation of knowledge and skills gained by participants in their training sessions was assessed via the Levels of Use (LoU) interview system. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Utilization
Afflerbach, Peter – 1985
This paper examined the status of assessment of writing as it is currently performed in the United States. All fifty states and the District of Columbia responded to a survey requesting information on their testing programs. Twenty-six states and the District of Columbia were found to assess writing on the statewide level, and eight states were in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Utilization, Minimum Competency Testing
Pollard, John A. – 1990
The implementation of research design in studies on substance abuse education is discussed in this meta-analysis. Findings indicate that the quality of research design is constrained by negative feedback from evaluation stakeholders. This finding is applied to an evaluation of the Here's Looking at You, 2000 drug education program currently…
Descriptors: Drug Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization
Burt, Charles W.; Geis, George L. – 1986
A survey was conducted of expert instructional design practitioners about their use of developmental testing and revision procedures. The degree of correspondence was examined between published recommended practice and actual practice, as reported by 90 respondents to a questionnaire. The surveyed sample were members of the National Society for…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods