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Karoly, Lynn A.; Cannon, Jill S.; Gomez, Celia J.; Whitaker, Anamarie A. – RAND Corporation, 2021
As part of its Partnership for Pre-K Improvement (PPI) initiative, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation sponsored the RAND Corporation to study the cost of high-quality pre-K programming. The RAND study included three states--Oregon, Tennessee, and Washington--that were partnering with the foundation under PPI. The objective of the study was to…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Public Education, Costs, Expenditure per Student
Appel, Sara; Parks, Jenny; Trechter, Everett – Midwestern Higher Education Compact, 2021
In 1994, the Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC) joined its sister compacts in offering a regional student reciprocity and tuition exchange opportunity known as the Midwest Student Exchange Program (MSEP). The program allowed students from one MHEC state to attend an institution at a reduced tuition rate in another MHEC state when the…
Descriptors: Institutional Cooperation, Tuition, Interstate Programs, Higher Education
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Beard, Virginia; Booke, Paula – College Teaching, 2016
Integrating research in the classroom experience is recognized as potentially important in enhancing student learning (Price 2001; Schmid 1992). This article asks if student integration as research subjects augments their learning about political science. A quasi-experimental project focused on media usage, construction, and influences on the…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Quasiexperimental Design, Academic Achievement, Political Science
Rhim, Lauren Morando – Academic Development Institute, 2013
Locally controlled public schools are one of the cornerstones of our nation's democracy, yet many schools are not preparing students for success. Far too many students are not graduating, and many of those who do graduate are woefully unprepared for college or a meaningful career. Successfully initiating and sustaining meaningful improvements in…
Descriptors: Governing Boards, Boards of Education, Accountability, Educational Change
Michigan State Board of Education, Lansing. – 1980
Designed for use by Michigan community colleges wishing to conduct a self-study of their occupational programs, this manual provides step-by-step instructions and instrumentation for implementing the Program Review in Occupational Education (PROE) model. PROE is a component of the Michigan Community College Occupational Education Evaluation System…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods
Saginaw Public Schools, MI. Dept. of Evaluation, Testing, and Research. – 1996
This publication describes an evaluation design developed to assess school-to-work (STW) efforts throughout the Saginaw Valley STW Partnership area in Michigan. An introduction is followed by an overview of the aim of evaluation. Section 3 describes how the variables pertinent to the evaluation of the STW program initiative were identified,…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Processing, Database Management Systems
Michigan State Board of Education, Lansing. – 1981
The Program Review Extension Procedures (PREP) set forth in this manual are a flexible set of procedures and questionnaires designed for use by Michigan community colleges in evaluating non-occupational instructional areas. First, introductory material explains that PREP is not a component of, but rather a companion model to the Michigan Community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Services, Continuing Education, Data Analysis
Ferris State Coll., Big Rapids, MI. Center for Occupational Education. – 1986
This guide is intended to serve as a tool for use in examining Michigan's existing job placement program. The job placement status study and planning process outlined in the handbook and the related materials presented have been coordinated with other assessment and planning instruments currently in use by vocational educators in Michigan. The…
Descriptors: Coordination, Data Collection, Delivery Systems, Evaluation Criteria
Macomb County Intermediate School District, Mount Clemens, MI. – 1978
The first volume of this report describes a survey of the adult basic education program in Michigan, including a statement of purposes, a review of relevant literature, a discussion of procedures and survey instruments, a discussion of findings and conclusions, and a chapter on limitations of the study and recommendations for future research. The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Classroom Environment, Competency Based Education