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Download full textYap, Kim; Douglas, Inge; Railsback, Jennifer; Shaughnessy, Joan; Speth, Timothy – 1999
This guidebook offers suggestions that can help district and school staff choose an approach for evaluating school-reform efforts. It is intended to provide further evaluation assistance to education stakeholders to ensure that schools conduct evaluation of whole-school reform efforts in a way that provides valid and useful information for…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Puurula, Arja; Karppinen, Seija – 2000
Student assessment is dependent on the educational views of the teacher. Arts pedagogy in comprehensive schools has several approaches, orientations, and even genres, each in turn having hidden practices of student evaluation. These stem on the one hand from the pedagogical tradition of the field (music, visual arts, drama, craft) and on the other…
Descriptors: Art Education, Comprehensive Programs, Dance, Drama
Appelbaum, Deborah; Schwartzbeck, Terri Duggan – 2002
Many educators believe that comprehensive school reform (CSR) holds real promise for improving schools, as many CSR programs are based in research and have documented success. However, in the past year, there has been increased emphasis on CSR programs' evidence of effectiveness and scrutiny of CSR evaluations' degree of rigor. Questions exist…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Educational Improvement, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Burt, Martha R.; And Others – 1992
Programs targeting at-risk young adolescents, aged 10 to 15 years, were studied through a literature review and examination of issues related to evaluating programs for at-risk youth, and site visits to 9 programs at 6 locations. Chapter 1 introduces the study and its objectives, and chapter 2 reviews the literature on youth at risk. Chapter 3…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Comprehensive Programs, Delivery Systems, Early Adolescents
Taylor, Elizabeth R. – 2002
In the late 1990s the Texas Education Agency advocated the transformation of all counseling services into developmental guidance programs. This document describes the process undertaken and the lessons learned when evaluating a small, rural school district in north Texas in order to begin this model transformation. The purpose of the study was to…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Guidance, Comprehensive Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Council of Chief State School Officers, Washington, DC. – 1994
Each state has the opportunity to participate in Title III of the Goals 2000 Act. To participate, the state must have or develop a comprehensive strategy for improving education on the basis of clear and challenging standards. To assist the states, the Council of Chief State School Officers has prepared this report of baseline information for each…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comprehensive Programs, Decision Making, Educational Improvement
