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Perie, Marianne; Marion, Scott; Gong, Brian – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2009
Local assessment systems are being marketed as formative, benchmark, predictive, and a host of other terms. Many so-called formative assessments are not at all similar to the types of assessments and strategies studied by Black and Wiliam (1998) but instead are interim assessments. In this article, we clarify the definition and uses of interim…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Educational Assessment, Formative Evaluation
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Shepard, Lorrie A. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2009
In many school districts, the pressure to raise test scores has created overnight celebrity status for formative assessment. Its powers to raise student achievement have been touted, however, without attending to the research on which these claims were based. Sociocultural learning theory provides theoretical grounding for understanding how…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Validity, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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Rallis, Sharon F. – Evaluation Practice, 1988
A Chapter I evaluator reflects on developments in her role within the Title One/Chapter One Program through five phases. The phases were characterized, successively, by broad acceptance, defensiveness, indifference, negativity, and openness to criticism. (TJH)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Utilization
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Ross-Fisher, Roberta L. – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1996
Guidelines for developing an evaluation plan for a gifted education program include recognizing the reluctance to spend money on evaluation, identifying what should be evaluated, deciding when programs should be reevaluated, determining overall evaluation principles, creating the evaluation design, and designing the evaluation plan to fit a…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Gifted
Stake, Bob – 1999
Both quality and representation are constructs that are central to evaluation as a form of human discourse. Quality is perhaps the most essential idea in evaluation, and once quality is discerned, it must be conveyed, or represented to others. These constructs are considered in the context of the Chicago, Illinois public schools, an urban system…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization
Yen, Flora B. – 1992
The purpose of this publication is to highlight the importance of monitoring and documenting alcohol and drug abuse (AOD) program activities. Section 1 of this publication covers basic ideas in evaluating AOD program implementation, various methods of gathering data, and suggestions on selecting instruments. Section 2 contains abstracts of several…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
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Lundsteen, Sara W. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1987
Ethnographic qualitative assessment methods can be used to evaluate gifted programs. Noted are the use of multiple tools in fieldwork, allowing an extended time span, the research as the research instrument, ethnographics research cycle, and use of both macro and micro approaches to the evaluation product. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Crabbe, Larry; And Others – American School Board Journal, 1984
Two examples illustrate effective use of evaluation offices. The first, a centralized approach, involves goal setting, followed by measurement techniques and improvement based on data. The second, decentralized approach involves reduction of data to six profiles, which form the basis of planning. Similarities and differences are discussed. (TE)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization
Linn, Robert L. – 2001
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has been the subject of many evaluations during its history. Those evaluations are reviewed, focusing on external evaluations, and the influences of recommendations made in the evaluations are discussed. The report concludes that many of the recommendations of evaluators have been heeded by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Utilization, National Surveys
Haro, Analee; Yoon, Ruth – 2000
The Los Angeles Annenberg Metropolitan Project (LAAMP) has several initiatives, including Parents as Learning Partners (PLP), that attempt to assist parents and schools to work collaboratively in order to increase student achievement. Using PLP, one of LAAMP's major parent engagement initiatives, as a model, this paper discusses using both…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization
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Russell, Neil; Willinsky, John – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1997
Postmodern approaches to school-level evaluation by building on the fourth-generation evaluation model developed by E. Guba and Y. Lincoln are suggested. It is argued that this conceptualization of evaluation has particular relevance for development of alternative evaluation practices among stakeholders that can improve the use of evaluation…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Kirschenbaum, Robert J. – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1993
This interview with Carolyn M. Callahan, an expert in the field of gifted education, addresses the process of evaluating gifted education programs, techniques for maximizing the impact of the evaluation findings, analysis of evaluation impact, benefits of using an outside evaluator, and parent involvement in program evaluation. (JDD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Gifted
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Rice, Jennifer King – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1997
After a discussion of the underutilization of cost analysis in education, this article offers several explanations for the relative scarcity of cost-based evaluations in education and considers the potential for greater use of such studies. Developing frameworks to unpack costs may be a way of bringing about greater use of cost-based evaluation.…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Economic Factors, Elementary Secondary Education
Schechter, Susan – Education Statistics Quarterly, 2001
The reports highlighted in this issue offer an excellent view of the success, value, and contributions of the National Household Education Surveys (NHES) Program. Also discusses the federal statistical system and the role that NHES and other national household surveys play in providing the United States with information needed for policy…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Utilization
Ayers, Samuel J. – 1987
This study attempted to identify efforts to evaluate programs for gifted and talented students in 122 Texas school districts and to compare these practices with those recommended in the literature and with Texas Education Association guidelines. Areas examined included informal and formal assessment of student and teacher identification practices,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Gifted
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