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Turtle, Kellie; McElearney, Aisling; Scott, Joanne – Child Care in Practice, 2010
Children's right to participate as enshrined in Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is increasingly evident in the rhetoric of policy documents as well as in practice and research with children and young people. Children's participation in research is being facilitated in a range of creative ways, including as…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Content Validity, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
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Herriott, Robert E. – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1977
The Experimental Schools (ES) program is one of a series of federally funded projects designed to stimulate and study planned change within local educational agencies. This paper presents the goals and methods of the ES program and of research being conducted under its jurisdiction. It considers exclusively issues in the design and implementation…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Educational Programs
Fein, Edith; And Others – 1987
This paper describes experiences with in-house evaluation, using four case examples from Child and Family Services (a social service, child welfare, and mental health agency) in a meta-evaluation model to illustrate benefits and sensitivities of the internal evaluator's role. Projects reviewed were: (1) a child sexual abuse treatment team; (2) a…
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Early Childhood Education, Evaluators
Naugle, Lottie; Reigeluth, Charles – 1994
How an elementary school (pseudonym, Sunny Days Elementary School) initiated school restructuring using the School Restructuring Process Model developed by Charles Reigeluth was studied, using formative evaluation to see how the actual experiences of the school might refine and improve the model. The model follows a three-phase process from…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Context Effect, Data Collection, Educational Change
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Maling-Keepes, Jillian – 1976
A set of 13 key characteristics is presented as a framework for educational evaluation studies: (1) program's stage of development when evaluator is appointed; (2) program's openness to revision; (3) program uniformity from site to site; (4) specificity of program objectives; (5) evaluator's independence; (6) evaluator's orientation to value…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Curriculum Evaluation, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Callahan, Carolyn M.; Tomlinson, Carol A.; Hunsaker, Scott L.; Bland, Lori C.; Moon, Tonya – 1995
This report presents results of a series of studies documenting current practices in the evaluation of gifted programs and investigating the factors which make evaluation more useful to decision-makers. The investigation involved establishing several databases containing three kinds of information: (1) abstracts of articles relating to evaluation…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Databases
Krystal, Sheila; Henrie, Samuel – 1972
Educational accountability is treated as a philosophy and as a means of introducing system into an educational enterprise. The philosophy of accountability is discussed as to the demand for accountability, the possibility of using accountability as a political tool, the promise made by accountability and whether the promise can be kept, difficult…
Descriptors: Accountability, Case Studies, Citations (References), Data Analysis
Society for Participatory Research in Asia, New Delhi (India). – 1982
Participatory research is an approach that calls for a democratic interaction between the researcher and those among whom the research is conducted. While this approach has been implemented with both individuals and groups in a wide variety of settings such as geographic communities, workplace situations, adult learning groups, community issue…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Data Collection, Definitions
Caro, Francis G., Ed. – 1971
This collection of readings is intended for those concerned with directed social change--researchers, social planners, administrators, and social scientists. The papers address such issues as the nature of the evaluation task, the role of evaluation research in programs of directed change, the organizational context in which evaluation research is…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Action, Correctional Institutions, Delinquent Rehabilitation