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Witten, Harm; Waugh, Russell; Gray, Jan – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
This paper presents the results of an investigation into the attitudes of School Administrators to the relationship between formal school registration and school improvement. It concerns a mandatory inspection-type registration process for all Non-Government Schools in Western Australia. Part of the aim of this registration process was to help…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Beliefs, Educational Development, Investigations
Atwood, Nancy K.; Hiller, Jack H. – 1986
An automated management information system was developed for planning and scheduling unit training in a U.S. Army infantry division. The primary goal of the project was to test the feasibility of the concept for a computer-based management information system. Specific objectives were to integrate information on personnel, training, and logistics…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Databases, Formative Evaluation, Management Information Systems
White, Robert L. – 1977
As our society moves increasingly from an era of affluence to one of scarcity, the evaluation and assessment of publicly supported services will become even more crucial and necessary to ensure that public resources are being expended in the most effective manner. Evaluation of library service effectiveness is defined in this paper in terms of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Libraries
Irvine, David J.; And Others – 1981
This evaluation of the New York State Experimental Prekindergarten (PreK) Program was designed to investigate the extent to which efforts to enhance program continuity through staff development activities produced lasting effects on children's cognitive and noncognitive development. Three children in each of seven of the 48 PreK school districts…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Coordination, Educational Cooperation, Grade 1
Packard, Richard D.; Dereshiwsky, Mary I. – 1990
A process for evaluating the effectiveness of educational organizations, with a focus on accountability, is described. An evaluation of 15 pilot-test school districts in the Arizona Career Ladder Project reveals the existence of a major discrepancy between meeting program requirements and achieving program success. A theoretical model of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Adams, Charles F.; And Others – 1981
Project Impact, a support system for the administrative and instructional staff in the Onondaga-Madison BOCES schools, was designed to support a diagnostic-prescriptive approach in the classroom by providing the information the teacher needs in order to make instructional decisions. It consists of a series of computer programs with a large storage…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Decision Making
Drabenstott, Karen M.; Weller, Marjorie S. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1996
Describes the comparative approach to system evaluation used in a project which administered an online retrieval test to an experimental online catalog to produce data for evaluating effectiveness of a new subject access design. Discusses efforts used to ensure data reliability, and strategies the researchers can use to improve on the data…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer System Design, Data Analysis
Bates, A. W. – 1973
The Open University of Great Britain provides home-based instruction via broadcasts and correspondence. Since technical arguments for the superiority of open-network, cable, or cassette television systems are inconclusive, the university has been forced to develop a decision-making model to determine which system is the most cost effective. For…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Cable Television, Cost Effectiveness, Costs
Commission des Communautes Europeennes (Luxembourg). – 1975
Based on the working papers and the results of seminar discussions on the evaluation of vocational education in various European countries, this volume summarizes current European thinking on the evaluation of training programs. Chapter 1 describes and defines the different levels of analysis which can be used in evaluation: analysis in the…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Employment Opportunities, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Milam, John H., Jr. – 2000
This paper presents a complex, hybrid, method of cost analysis of online courses, which incorporates data on expenditures; student/course enrollment; departmental consumption/contribution; space utilization/opportunity costs; direct non-personnel costs; computing support; faculty/staff workload; administrative overhead at the department, dean, and…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Cost Effectiveness, Distance Education, Educational Technology