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Hart, Ray; Casserly, Michael; Uzzell, Renata; Palacios, Moses; Corcoran, Amanda; Spurgeon, Liz – Council of the Great City Schools, 2015
There has been little data collected on how much testing actually goes on in America's schools and how the results are used. So in the Spring of 2014, the Council staff developed and launched a survey of assessment practices. This report presents the findings from that survey and subsequent Council analysis and review of the data. It also offers…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Student Evaluation, Testing Programs, Testing
1994
This new edition is the result of an extensive review of the standards as defined in 1981. Taken as a set, the 30 current standards provide a working philosophy for evaluation. They define the Joint Committee on Standards for Education Evaluation's conception of the principles that should guide and govern program evaluation efforts, and they offer…
Descriptors: Administration, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods
Raupp, Magdala; Kolb, Frances Arick, Ed. – 1990
This handbook is designed to help educators understand program evaluation processes so that they will be able to carry out evaluation tasks and talk knowledgeably to evaluators about what they want to find out from a program evaluation. The book reviews the purposes and uses of evaluation to help the reader identify the scope and direction of the…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Cost Estimates, Data Analysis, Data Collection
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Holley, Freda M. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1983
The organization and operations of an evaluation unit in a local governmental agency are presented. How local evaluation units manage (1) external relations (to obtain funding, to gain access to data sources, and encourage evaluation use) and (2) internal operations (including staffing, communication, data collection, and analysis) are described.…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Deboeck, Guido; Kinsey, Bill – 1980
The study summarizes discussions and conclusions of the Regional Workshop on Monitoring and Evaluation of Rural Development Projects in East Africa (Nairobi, Kenya, April 1979), whose purpose was to share lessons learned from field experiences in managing information for rural development. An initial section summarizes information in papers…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Agents, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Warmbrod, Catharine P., Comp.; Persavich, Jon J., Comp. – 1981
Designed for use by institutions at the postsecondary level, this program evaluation package contains instructions for planning and implementing an evaluation program, instruments for obtaining information from key sources, and procedures for their use. Covered in the individual chapters are the following topics: an overview of evaluation…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Advisory Committees, Annotated Bibliographies, Attitude Measures