Purpose: This article discusses the need for continued evaluation of health education interventions/curricula and provides tools and resources to facilitate the selection of appropriate, evidencebased interventions/curricula for school health education programs. Methods: We review the literature related to the evaluation of school health education…

Since the mid 1970s, a series of international declarations that recognize the critical link between environmental sustainability and higher education have been endorsed and signed by universities around the world. While academic initiatives in sustainability are blossoming, higher education lacks a comprehensive evaluation framework that is…

Peer reviewing of teaching and curriculum in Higher Education is a common practice aimed at both quality assurance and professional development. External review of curriculum prior to implementation appears less common. The aim of this project was to develop, implement and evaluate a user-friendly process for external peer preview of teaching…

Learning analytics has been as used a tool to improve the learning process mainly at the micro-level (courses and activities). However, another of the key promises of learning analytics research is to create tools that could help educational institutions at the meso- and macro-level to gain better insight into the inner workings of their programs…

In this paper we consider the challenges involved in evaluating teacher preparation programs when controlling for school contextual bias. Including school fixed effects in the achievement models used to estimate preparation program effects controls for school environment by relying on differences among student outcomes within the same schools to…

Explores three curricular theoretic concerns: investigating the theoretic in "the practical" of curriculum development, reconceptualizing the concept of curriculum implementation, and reformulating a curriculum evaluation paradigm. (Author/RK)

Presents a model for researchers to test the mechanisms which have been claimed to operate in curriculum diffusion. The method is different from generalizations based on observations or answers to questionnaires. (Author/KC)

Some early results are reported of a study to examine trends of student evaluations in college level physics courses. Higher ratings were consistently given for higher level courses. (PS)

Responds to an article that questioned the authors' previous attempts to define "subject difficulty" and compare subjects based on their level of difficulty. Argues that "subject difficulty" is a reasonable term and is important to the interpretation of examination data. Questions arguments that only qualitative judgments of…

A guide and handbook for planners, developers, and evaluators of educational programs and products, this book discusses the various settings in which an evaluator commonly works and the many roles he performs. The book divides the evaluator's work into three activities: establishing perspective, planning the evaluation, and analyzing the data.…

This paper discusses an instrument developed to evaluate the characteristics of the major innovative elementary school science curriculum projects. The purpose of this self-assessment instrument is to determine which project is best for a particular school or classroom. The instrument does not attempt to compare one project with another and allows…

As a statistical model for evaluating research results from intact groups such as classrooms, analysis of covariance has serious limitations in its most commonly-touted form. But it does have potential for investigating phenomena which can, when understood, provide more prescriptive formulations for interventions in the learning process.…

This report discusses the importance of five types of evaluation in science and science education. First, evaluation must be recognized as a key process within science, both pure and applied, and must be taught as an integral part of science education. Second, the applications of science must be evaluated not only as a social responsibility and a…