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Wynne, Carlise Womack; Satchwell, Deryck – Quality in Higher Education, 2020
This article outlines a case study of creating a system of quality assurance in Belize while also building the capacity of teaching staff in order to support the process of establishing quality standards in tertiary education. This case study outlines the process of establishing the first quality assurance system in the nation's history as well as…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Case Studies, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance
Gillis, Danny – American Youth Policy Forum, 2017
As states continue to grapple with the most appropriate ways to hold schools accountable under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), there is a lack of consensus on how alternative settings should fit into accountability systems and whether those systems should be separate from or included in accountability systems for traditional schools. The…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Accountability, Nontraditional Education
Deeds, Carinne; DePaoli, Jennifer – American Youth Policy Forum, 2017
Discussion of alternative education is growing across the country as states and districts look for ways to better serve students whose needs are not met in traditional high school settings. Alternative settings, however, vary greatly in how they operate, whom they aim to enroll, and the methods they use to educate students. The variation of…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Accountability, Nontraditional Education
Pejsa, Laura J. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to explore the real-world practice of evaluation capacity building (ECB) in the small-medium sized nonprofit context. The study aimed to map the activities, processes, and outcomes of ECB in these nonprofits in light of the competing external and internal evaluation contexts facing nonprofits in an age of…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Evaluation, Capacity Building, Accountability
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Rawlings, Melody – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2014
The purpose of this pilot case study was to answer the following research questions: How do previous experiences affect students' attitudes toward online teamwork? When do students' attitudes toward online teamwork first develop and why? Using a social constructivist framework, a qualitative case study design was utilized to conduct an online…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Teamwork, Cooperative Learning, Pilot Projects
Strickland, Laura Bailey – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this study is to answer the question: How do pilot users of the Danielson Evaluation System perceive this model in two mid-south high schools? The study describes the perceptions of teachers and administrators who implemented the Danielson Teacher Evaluation Model. The primary focus was on teachers and administrators experience with…
Descriptors: High Schools, Case Studies, Teacher Evaluation, Models
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Pilarzyk, Tom; Wang, Yan – Journal of Applied Research in the Community College, 2007
Action research can play an important role in institutional research endeavors to improve the quality of organizational performance in higher education. This article outlines how the action research perspective informed a research design that integrated fragmented and isolated student success initiatives at a large urban two-year institution where…
Descriptors: Research Design, Institutional Research, Action Research, Community Colleges
1998
Six papers discuss the Louisiana School Effectiveness and Assistance Pilot (SEAP) program, an ongoing 3-year research project associated with a legislatively mandated school and district accountability program. In three phases, the project joins school indicators, school effectiveness, and school improvement initiatives. The following papers are…
Descriptors: Accountability, Case Studies, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Dumont, Richard G. – 1978
Reported are the execution and outcomes of the Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC) Performance Funding Project at Tennessee Technological University, a pilot project seeking to explore the question of whether it is desirable and possible to allocate state funds to community colleges and universities on a performance effectiveness…
Descriptors: Accountability, Case Studies, Community Colleges, Educational Assessment
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Ballantyne, Christina – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2003
As the World Wide Web becomes an integral part of higher education, universities must determine the viability of using the Internet for their student evaluation systems. This chapter highlights important online-student-rating issues raised in this volume and in other research through a case study of Murdoch University's (Perth, Australia) online…
Descriptors: Internet, Student Evaluation, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Higher Education