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Download full textCentre for Literacy, 2013
This paper gathers descriptions on the use of the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) and essential skills cross Canada. IALS was developed as a population measure to lay out the distribution of skills and their relationship to other social and economic attributes. The information was taken from federal, provincial, and territorial…
Descriptors: Literacy, Educational Practices, Educational Policy, Basic Skills
Ligon, Glynn; Jackson, Elaine E. – 1989
The efforts of the Austin (Texas) Public School District to improve the readability and usefulness of technical reports are reviewed. Coincident with, or consequent to, a 1977 letter by W. E. Jones to the editor of an Austin paper (the "Austin American Statesman") complaining about excessively lengthy (500-page) evaluation reports, the…
Descriptors: Documentation, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Research, Evaluation Utilization
Jones, B. Kathryn; And Others – 1990
The experience of the research and evaluation department in the Dallas (Texas) Independent School District in pioneering the use of a policy-oriented report to communicate evaluation findings is described. The report--the chart essay--replaced a methods-oriented report. In restructuring the methods-oriented report into a policy-oriented report,…
Descriptors: Charts, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Schleisman, Jane – 1999
This report explores changes in school policies and practices resulting from an externally mandated, high-stakes testing program. It is based on a study that investigated one Minnesota school district's transformation following the passage of a 1993 law mandating a results-oriented graduation rule. The paper outlines the role of testing programs…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Needs
Greene, Myrna – 1985
This paper describes an ongoing comprehensive model of program evaluation which has as its major goal the improvement of teacher education. This project, developed at the University of Lethbridge (Alberta, Canada), is presented in four parts: (1) the process--how and why the project developed or is developing as it is; (2) the conceptual…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Formative Evaluation
Bigelow, Robert A. – 1986
The Delaware Educational Assessment Program publishes annual results from the California Test of Basic Skills by district, school, and grade (1 through 8 and 11). A statewide computer information system was developed to manage the testing program, the massive 10-year longitudinal database, and the information requests received. The Delaware…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Assessment
