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Jennifer Ahn – Learning Professional, 2024
Since professional learning is about shifting adult mindsets and behavior, it is work that frequently challenges assumptions, expectations, beliefs, instructional practices, and long-standing habits. To have meaningful and productive conversations about evaluation and data, educators must be equipped with effective practices and tools that allow…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Psychological Patterns, Equal Education, Program Effectiveness
Danielle F. Reynolds – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This mixed methods study was designed for two purposes: (1) to provide district and campus leaders data about the effectiveness of how the studied district's READ 180 and System 44 literacy intervention programs were implemented, and (2) to assess the programs' impact on student outcomes to determine whether the district was meeting literacy goals…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, School Districts, Literacy Education, Intervention
Smith, Micah Lonae – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this mixed-methods study is to evaluate the impact of Morrison High School's ninth grade transition program, the Freshman Academy, on student outcomes. Based on the outcomes, decisions will be made to determine if the Freshman Academy is meeting students' needs or if the program elements need to be revisited to improve student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Program Evaluation, Grade 9, Transitional Programs
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Blakely Brown; Sweeney Windchief; Barbara Komlos; Raquel Arouca – Journal of Faculty Development, 2020
Effective mentoring of American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) students in STEM can make a difference in degree completion. The researchers designed and implemented a program to prepare faculty for mentoring AI/AN students in STEM, which then allowed the study to take place. Process measures (e. g., participation and program satisfaction measures)…
Descriptors: Mentors, Faculty Development, American Indian Students, Alaska Natives
Drummond, Katie V.; Tucker-Bradway, Natalie; Smith, Deeza-Mae; Hubbard, Daniel; Meakin, John; Salinger, Terry – American Institutes for Research, 2020
This i3 scale-up study examined the implementation and effectiveness of a 3-year literacy intervention developed by the Children's Literacy Initiative (CLI). The study was a school-level cluster randomized controlled trial conducted in 55 elementary schools from four states. Implementation results showed a high level of fidelity of intervention…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
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Fairris, David – Liberal Education, 2012
Several years ago, when the author was associate dean in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, a new senior administrator on campus expressed the view that one of their premier first-year experience programs in the college was too expensive and that a different model, based on an approach taken at the administrator's previous…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Program Evaluation, Personnel Selection, Social Sciences
Trimble, Brad A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to conduct a formative evaluation of the first two years of the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) Aspirations Project (Aspirations) using a Context, Input, Process, and Product (CIPP) model so as to gain an in-depth understanding of the project during the middle school…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Academic Achievement, Middle School Students, Postsecondary Education
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Streeter, Calvin L.; Franklin, Cynthia; Kim, Johnny S.; Tripodi, Stephen J. – Children & Schools, 2011
This article describes how concept mapping techniques were applied to evaluate the development of a solution-focused, public alternative school program. Concept Systems software was used to create 15 cluster maps based on statements generated from students, teachers, and school staff. In addition, pattern matches were analyzed to examine the…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Nontraditional Education, Public Schools, Program Evaluation
Richmond, Emily Kathleen – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This mixed methodology study investigated the relationship between administrator and teacher perceptions of leader decision making regarding five variables (reading training, reading curriculum, program evaluation, financial support, and student assessment) and student achievement (in the single content area, reading, at the 3rd grade level) in…
Descriptors: Report Cards, Program Evaluation, Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement
Green, Kenneth C.; Wagner, Ellen – Trusteeship, 2011
Online learning is an increasingly prominent and legitimate presence in higher education--nearly one third of full-time and part time students at nonprofit and for-profit institutions took one or more online courses in 2009, according to the Sloan Consortium. While the value of taking a college or university "online" may be obvious and…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Part Time Students, Online Courses, College Faculty
Carrigan, Erin L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The theoretical framework for the present study encompassed the four pillars of the Performance Based Diploma System (PBDS) program: small learning communities, educational technology, flexible scheduling, and mentoring. This mixed-methods study uses appropriate portions of the Context-Input-Process-Product program evaluation model to assess…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Teachers, High Schools, Urban Schools
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Martin, Ann – Knowledge Quest, 2007
As America entered the information age, libraries were no longer being pictured as a vital part of family life. Instead, technology became the critical resource for a middle-class family. In addition, state and national accountability and assessment initiatives forced school library media specialists (SLMSs) to demonstrate that the school library…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Advocacy, Librarians, School Libraries
Stucker, J. P.; Hall, G. R. – 1971
This document, part one of a report on performance contracting, explores its basic issues and considerations and is addressed to educational decisionmakers. The evolution of performance contracting is traced and the concept as it is currently being applied in education is discussed. The second part will analyze the outcomes of some programs when…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Administrators, Contracts
Richardson, Eugene J., Jr. – 1973
This study was designed to determine if specially funded administrative training programs selecting participants through nonacademic criteria can be successful according to graduate school measures of success. The success of students admitted according to special criteria was compared with the success of students admitted through regular academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Characteristics, Administrators, Admission Criteria
Pena, Deagelia M.; Hill, Florence – 1984
This paper presents some of the results of a survey of participants in the Detroit Public Schools Management Academy's Required Management Seminars and includes suggestions for full-scale evaluation of a program such as this, which ultimately seeks to improve achievement. Questionnaires were sent to 400 participants, most of whom were principals…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Elementary Secondary Education
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