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Salah Eddine Bouyousfi; Miché Ouedraogo – American Journal of Evaluation, 2025
The use of complexity-based evaluation methods remains relatively underexplored in the field of evaluation. While increasingly employed to assess complex interventions, Contribution Analysis (CA) continues to suffer from a lack of operationalization. In this article, we propose enhancing the implementation of CA by leveraging Participatory Systems…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Intervention, Difficulty Level, Systems Approach
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Huey T. Chen; Liliana Morosanu; Victor H. Chen – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2024
The Campbellian validity typology has been used as a foundation for outcome evaluation and for developing evidence-based interventions for decades. As such, randomized control trials were preferred for outcome evaluation. However, some evaluators disagree with the validity typology's argument that randomized controlled trials as the best design…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Systems Approach, Intervention, Evidence Based Practice
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Thayaamol Upapong; Apantee Poonputta – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: The purposes of this research are to develop a reliable and valid assessment tool for measuring systems thinking skills in upper primary students in Thailand and to establish a normative criterion for evaluating their systems thinking abilities based on educational standards. Materials/methods: The study followed a three-phase…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Elementary School Students, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
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Beronda L. Montgomery; Joi-Lynn Mondisa; Becky Wai-Ling Packard – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2024
Although mentoring interventions have helped to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) goals within STEM fields, even the most efficacious programs can be undermined without intentional cultivation of the broader mentoring ecosystem. This study examines participants from eight campus teams that engaged in a multi-session process of…
Descriptors: Ecology, Mentors, Sustainability, STEM Education
Caitlin Renea Anderson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The field of biology is becoming increasingly fragmented, and this fragmentation spills over into the ways our students think and learn about biology. Biology education policy documents stress the importance of teaching biology in an integrated manner and call for the biology education research community to establish a unifying paradigm for the…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Undergraduate Students, Biology, Science Education
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María-Asunción Lorenzo-Rial; Mercedes Varela-Losada; Uxío Pérez-Rodríguez; Pedro Vega-Marcote – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the presence of systems thinking after an educational proposal on climate sustainability based on reflection and video creation. To evaluate this competency, an evaluation rubric was constructed. Design/methodology/approach: This research is a case study with a mixed approach. It was carried out…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Thinking Skills, Systems Development, Climate