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Bigelow, Bruce E. – 1978
This paper attempts to summarize briefly the history of the Denison University project for learning through simulation, detailing the range of research, development, education and training, and evaluational efforts which resulted in the establishment of the Denison Simulation Center. The paper includes an explanation of the services currently…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Evaluation Methods, Game Theory, Problem Solving
Aper, Jeffery P. – 1995
There have been ongoing debates among educational researchers over the appropriateness of various research methods. This paper begins with the contention that these differences in methodological orientation are in large part reflections of the broader ideological and value convictions of the researchers themselves. A critical point to be made,…
Descriptors: Criteria, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods, Ideology
Scriven, Michael – 1975
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…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Research, Evaluation
Hartoonian, H. Michael – 1975
Four models for interpreting values education strategies are provided. Six examples form curriculum projects are analyzed in light of three of these conceptual models. The first model categorizes values approaches by whether they describe, analyze, or advocate a particular value position. The second model categorizes values approaches by whether…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Cooley, William W. – 1973
Educational research and development (R&D) has often been characterized as a neat, linear sequence of discrete steps, moving from research through development to evaluation and dissemination. Although the inadequacies of such linear models of educational research and development have been pointed out previously, these models have been so much…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Development, Educational Improvement, Educational Research
Eisner, Elliot W. – 1975
It is argued that educational evaluation can productively proceed from an artistic model as well as a scientific one. For such a model two processes are critical. The first of these is called "educational connoisseurship," the second "educational criticism." Educational connoisseurship is that art concerned with the appreciation of any set of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Art, Educational Background, Educational Change
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and Oceania. – 1979
Based on the premise that the major emphasis in population education should be on the development of problem analysis and values clarification, the manual offers guidelines for program evaluation. It consists of eight chapters. Chapter I discusses the nature of educational research and in-school and out-of-school population programs. Chapter II…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Curriculum Evaluation, Decision Making, Educational Research
Oppenheim, A. N.; Torney, Judith – 1974
This monograph reports on the instrument development phase of the attitudinal section of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) Civic Education Study. During this development the general emphasis was on the measurement of a variety of dimensions derived either from statements of curricular objectives in…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Attitude Measures, Childhood Attitudes, Citizenship
Imel, Susan; Kerka, Sandra; Wonacott, Michael E. – 2002
Directed at practitioners in adult and career education, this document defines qualitative research, compares qualitative research to quantitative research, describes the "war" between proponents of each kind of research, describes how to assess qualitative research, and explains how to choose and use qualitative techniques. Pitfalls of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Bias