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Zipi Diamond; Rowan Hilty; Holly Keaton; Catherine Schaefer; Keiyitho Omonuwa – Child Trends, 2024
In March 2022, Child Trends contracted with the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) to conduct an independent evaluation of Parent Aware, Minnesota's quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) for early care and education (ECE) programs. The evaluation, required by the 2021 Minnesota Legislature, includes several research activities…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement, Program Evaluation
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Gesele E. Durham; Sheena G. Serslev; Matthew DeSantis – Assessment Update, 2024
The George Mason University (Mason) offices responsible for institutional reporting and assessment were merged to strengthen and solidify their functions and expertise. The organizational structure creating the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning (OIEP) was intended to engineer a new paradigm where assessment would inform the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Evaluation Methods, College Outcomes Assessment
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Persad, Doodnath; Farrell, Permilla; Alonzo-Williams, Carla; Sargeant, Roxanne – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2023
Purpose: Unless higher education institutions ensure that first-rate academic programme offerings are supported with the provision of high-quality services, student satisfaction, retention, enrolment and ultimately, viability of the institutions will be adversely affected (Canic and McCarthy, 2000). The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Colleges, Educational Quality, Educational Assessment
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Meyers, Coby V.; Brandt, W. Christopher; VanGronigen, Bryan A. – Educational Policy, 2023
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) offers states increased flexibility in how they identify, rank, label, and support underperforming schools. Initial reviews of state ESSA plans, however, suggest that identification and labeling policies have remained relatively unchanged. In this study, we analyze all state ESSA plans to systematically…
Descriptors: Statewide Planning, Educational Planning, Equal Education, State Policy
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Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia, 2020
Educators in Tennessee use Response to Instruction and Intervention (RTI[superscript 2] ), a multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS), to address problems early for students at risk for poor learning outcomes. Tennessee Department of Education officials sought to support schools and districts implementing RTI[superscript 2] with a tool that…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Response to Intervention, Educational Assessment, Program Implementation
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Allen, Patricia J.; Brown, Zoe; Noam, Gil G. – International Journal for Research on Extended Education, 2020
An innovative system-building initiative known as the STEM Learning Ecosystems Community of Practice (SLECoP) is transforming U.S. STEM education through cross-sector partnerships between schools, afterschool and summer programs, libraries, museums, and businesses, among others. Although logic models exist to describe how SLEs can make positive…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Learning Processes, Ecology, Communities of Practice
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Schiller, Ellen; Chow, Kirby; Thayer, Sara; Nakamura, Jennifer; Wilkerson, Stephanie B.; Puma, Mike – Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia, 2020
Most states are using a multi -tiered system of supports (MTSS) or response to intervention (RTI) framework for improving the quality of instruction for all students and addressing the needs of students at risk for poor learning outcomes. Supporting educators in using tools to calibrate their MTSS/RTI implementation to the state's expected…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Response to Intervention, Educational Improvement, Program Implementation
Lazarus, Sheryl S.; Hayes, Susan A.; Nagle, Kate; Liu, Kristin K.; Thurlow, Martha L.; Dosedel, Michael; Quanbeck, Mari; Olson, Rachel – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2021
This report presents the findings of an analysis of states' FFY 2018 State Systemic Improvement Plans (SSIPs), submitted to the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) in April 2020. It specifically addresses how assessments were included in states' State-Identified Measurable Results (SIMRs). For states with…
Descriptors: State Programs, Statewide Planning, Educational Improvement, Strategic Planning
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Temple, Sue; Forrest, Bev. – Education 3-13, 2018
The aim of the research is to evaluate the impact on stakeholders participating within an assessment process focusing on the learning and teaching of history in primary schools. The assessment was devised by the Historical Association (UK) leading to the award of a Quality Mark. This award was introduced in September 2014 with the aim of rewarding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Awards, History Instruction
Fulcher, Keston H.; Smith, Kristen L.; Sanchez, Elizabeth R. H.; Sanders, Courtney B. – Association for Institutional Research, 2017
Higher education insiders trumpet the use of results for improvement as the most important part of the assessment cycle. Yet, at the same time, we acknowledge the rarity of improvement, especially at a program level. What are some reasons the most important phase of assessment occurs so infrequently? To seek answers, we investigated the "Use…
Descriptors: Information Utilization, Higher Education, Program Evaluation, Program Improvement
Eisnaugle, Eva N. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Learning outcomes within the context of assessing general education competencies have gained increasing attention within higher education. Accrediting bodies have increased standards for the assessment of general education competencies, employers continue to indicate graduates from higher education institutions are not prepared for success in the…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, General Education, Outcomes of Education, Higher Education
Chinembiri, France – Online Submission, 2017
This paper majors on the evaluation criteria and methods used for the assessment of health education programs in the United States. The choice of the topic is dictated by the fact that there is need to improve on the quality of the graduates that the different nursing and medical institutions in the United States produce. By looking at the…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Criteria, Educational Assessment, Program Evaluation
Geurin, Justin A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this research project was to conduct an exploratory analysis of the 2016 Mississippi Statewide Accountability System (MSAS), which is the model by which all public schools in Mississippi are assessed, rated, and ranked, in an attempt to assess whether or not the system is an effective policy tool, especially in relation to the goals…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Construct Validity, Educational Assessment, Accountability
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2018
This paper is the first issue of the Student Learning Outcomes (SLO) Symposium Collective Works publication, devoted to summaries of the presentations that took place at the 2018 symposium. The guiding topic of the symposium, assessment of student learning, was interwoven in breakout sessions with a great variety of topics such as equity,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Outcomes of Education, Conferences (Gatherings)
D'Brot, Juan; Keng, Leslie; Landl, Erika – Council of Chief State School Officers, 2018
The passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) marked the beginning of a new development cycle for accountability systems. State leaders once again have an opportunity to redesign their accountability systems based on the provisions included in ESSA and to ensure that systems improve outcomes for all students. The correct identification of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Identification, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation
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