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Lowman, J. Joneen – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2016
Professional development is a necessary component of maintaining competency in professional practice. Technology has opened the door to new formats for delivering professional development, in addition to more traditional modes of training. This study compared three professional development formats for improving the quality of standards-based…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Professional Development, Individualized Education Programs, Educational Legislation
Liu, Qin – Association for Institutional Research, 2012
This discussion constructs a survey data quality strategy for institutional researchers in higher education in light of total survey error theory. It starts with describing the characteristics of institutional research and identifying the gaps in literature regarding survey data quality issues in institutional research and then introduces the…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Higher Education, Quality Control, Researchers
Ingels, Steven J.; Herget, Deborah; Pratt, Daniel J.; Dever, Jill; Copello, Elizabeth; Leinwand, Steve – National Center for Education Statistics, 2010
This report examines the results of the field test for the base year of the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09). The general purposes of the field test were, in anticipation of the base-year full-scale effort, to test instruments, forms, and procedures; to experiment with different approaches to questionnaire content and survey…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Field Tests, Sampling, Data Collection
Liu, Qin – Online Submission, 2009
This paper intends to construct a survey data quality strategy for institutional researchers in higher education in light of total survey error theory. It starts with describing the characteristics of institutional research and identifying the gaps in literature regarding survey data quality issues in institutional research. Then it is followed by…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Research, Quality Control, Researchers
Borko, Hilda; Stecher, Brian M. – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2006
This report presents findings from two investigations of the use of classroom artifacts to measure the presence of reform-oriented teaching practices in middle-school science classes. It complements previous research on the use of artifacts to describe reform-oriented teaching practices in mathematics. In both studies, ratings based on collections…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Investigations, Mathematics
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1989
This report on interstate child support cases focuses on child support enforcement problems that occur when absent parents live in states other than those in which their children reside. Findings indicate that Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) and state caseload and collection data are of questionable reliability and provide limited…
Descriptors: Case Records, Data Collection, Financial Support, Law Enforcement
Selfa, Lance A.; Suter, Natalie; Myers, Sharon; Koch, Shaun; Johnson, Robert A.; Zahs, Daniel A.; Kuhr, Brian D.; Abraham, Sameer Y.; Zimbler, Linda J. – 1997
The 1988 National Survey of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF-88), later named the National Study of Postsecondary Faculty, was the first comprehensive study of higher education instructional faculty conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics since 1963. This report provides a description of the 1993 NSOPF and the data generated by its…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Colleges, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Kugle, C. L. – 1978
As part of an ongoing investigation of the relationship between teacher behavior and pupil affective and cognitive outcomes, coders practiced recording their observations of existing classroom videotapes in order to determine the amount of interobserver agreement. The videotapes were coded, using seven existing low- to medium-inference classroom…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Data Collection, Evaluators, Grade 5
Lancaster, F. W. – 1983
This extensive revision of a 1975 publication, "Guidelines for the Evaluation of Training Courses, Workshops, and Seminars in Scientific and Technical Information and Documentation," suggests possible approaches to the evaluation of the type of training sessions that might be organized or promoted by Unesco. Guidelines relate to what…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cost Effectiveness, Course Evaluation, Data Collection