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Administration for Children & Families, 2010
The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE), a unit within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), is responsible for advising the Assistant Secretary for Children and Families on increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of programs to improve the economic and social well-being of children and families. In collaboration…
Descriptors: Program Administration, Program Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Planning
Cook, Nancy R.; And Others – 1991
The work of the Program Effectiveness Panel (PEP) of the United States Department of Education was examined. The PEP is the Department of Education's primary means of certifying or validating the effectiveness of educational programs. Thirty-three educational programs were validated by the PEP between January 1988 and December 1990. Over time,…
Descriptors: Certification, Data Analysis, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Paulsell, Diane; Gordon, Anne; Nogales, Renee; Del Grosso, Patricia; Sprachman, Susan; Tarullo, Louisa – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2006
In fall 2003, the Head Start Bureau began implementing the Head Start National Reporting System (NRS) to systematically assess the early literacy, language and numeracy skills of all 4- and 5-year-olds enrolled in Head Start. In addition to child progression on a designated set of outcomes during the year preceding kindergarten, the data will…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Program Effectiveness, Program Improvement, Mathematics Skills
Battle, Mary Vroman – 1985
Evaluation of freshman English programs is a process involving recursive steps, such as planning which elements to review, securing resources to carry out the review, actually reviewing the planned elements, and providing written reports to decision-makers. The four elements of an educational program--contexts, input, process, and product--cohere…
Descriptors: College English, Course Evaluation, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment
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Easton, Peter A. – 1996
This book is designed to assist evaluators of nonformal education (NFE) and adult education programs in their continuing professional education and in the task of improving their capacities for genuinely formative, informative, and participatory assessment of educational practice. Fourteen chapters are organized into five sections. Section 1…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Adult Education, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Assessment