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Arlon P. Cadiz; Leah Amor S. Cortez – Journal of Biological Education Indonesia (Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi Indonesia), 2024
Increasing community awareness and knowledge about environmental problems is the primary goal of environmental education. This study explores the best practices of the Youth for Environment in Schools--Organization (YES-O) in selected schools in the National Capital Region, Philippines. A qualitative study involving interviews and focus group…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Youth Programs, Program Implementation, Self Advocacy
Maynard, Rebecca A.; Baelen, Rebecca N.; Fein, David; Souvanna, Phomdaen – Grantee Submission, 2022
This article offers a case example of how experimental evaluation methods can be coupled with principles of design-based implementation research (DBIR), improvement science (IS), and rapid-cycle evaluation (RCE) methods to provide relatively quick, low-cost, credible assessments of strategies designed to improve programs, policies, or practices.…
Descriptors: Program Improvement, Evaluation Methods, Efficiency, Young Adults
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Abelha, Marta; Jesus, Paulo; Fernandes, Sandra; Albuquerque, Ana Sílvia; Vidal, Angélica – Africa Education Review, 2020
Teacher appraisal (TA) or teacher performance appraisal (TPA) has assumed a central importance in educational systems and reforms worldwide, contributing to the improvement of teaching practices, and therefore it is considered an essential factor for teachers' early training, teachers' professional development, school management, and promotion of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Schools of Education
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Ernest, Brian W.; Obery, Amanda; Sullivan-Walker, Melissa; Reaves, Melanie; Dahle-Huff, Kari – Educational Research: Theory and Practice, 2023
Teacher education faculty are often expected to engage in accreditation work. Our purpose was to document the collective driving mechanisms of junior faculty who volunteered to redesign key accreditation assessments. Specifically, we explored the values and expectations for success that led junior faculty to engage in and persist through key…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Educators, College Faculty
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John Bowser; Amy Bellmore; Jim Larson – International Journal of Bullying Prevention, 2020
The Wisconsin School Violence and Bullying Prevention Study, funded by the National Institutes of Justice (NIJ), was a two-year case-control study in 24 Wisconsin middle schools (11 experimental; 13 control) seeking to understand the impact of a comprehensive bullying prevention program on bullying victimization rates. Participating schools'…
Descriptors: Prevention, Bullying, Middle School Students, Program Evaluation
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Weinstock, Phyllis; Gulemetova, Michaela; Sanchez, Raquel; Silver, David; Barach, Ilana – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2019
This evaluation, which focuses on the capacity-building mission of the Comprehensive Centers, was designed to add to the findings of the previous national evaluation of the Comprehensive Centers Program. That evaluation, completed in 2011, used survey data, structured interviews, and rating scales to analyze the extent to which State Education…
Descriptors: Technical Assistance, Federal Programs, Program Design, Program Implementation
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Guy, Batsheva R. – i.e.: inquiry in education, 2020
Participatory evaluation tools have been shown to be effective for program development in various settings, including in higher education. Taking student perspectives into consideration is key for graduate program development, particularly in interdisciplinary programs. The current study utilizes Group Level Assessment (GLA), a participatory…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Biomedicine, Program Development, Student Attitudes
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Colby, Susan; Lambert, Monica; McGee, Jennifer – SAGE Open, 2016
In this results-oriented era of accountability, educator preparation programs are called upon to provide comprehensive data related to student and program outcomes while also providing evidence of continuous improvement. Collaborative Analysis of Student Learning (CASL) is one approach for fostering critical inquiry about student learning.…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Graduate Study, Administrators, Teacher Educators
McKay, Sarah; Silva, Elena – Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2015
An evaluation system that is designed to support and improve teacher practice--rather than simply to assess and manage teacher performance--would have as its foundation effective and reliable processes to observe classroom practice and give teachers useful feedback. Such an improvement-focused evaluation system should be aligned with and…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Lesson Observation Criteria, Scoring Rubrics, Inferences
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Wegner, Claas; Wattenberg, Lars; Maar, Alexander; Gardow, Dominik – Electronic Journal of Science Education, 2017
This article investigates the participating students' evaluation of a teacher training seminar about heterogeneity in the classroom at Bielefeld University, Germany. The evaluation made use of a short questionnaire and an end-of-term test of the students' knowledge on the subject matter. The questionnaire is tested for objectivity, reliability,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Course Evaluation
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Natkin, L. W.; Kolbe, Tammy – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2016
Purpose: Although the number of higher education institutions adopting sustainability-focused faculty learning communities (FLCs) has grown, very few of these programs have published evaluation research. This paper aims to report findings from an evaluation of the University of Vermont's (UVM's) sustainability faculty fellows (SFF) program. It…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Environmental Education, Curriculum, College Faculty
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Hagans, Kristi S.; Powers, Kristin – Action in Teacher Education, 2015
The Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) requires faculty from educator preparation programs to provide evidence of credential candidates' impact on K-12 student learning. However, there is a paucity of information on preparation programs' use of direct assessments of student learning to gauge credential candidate…
Descriptors: Credentials, Academic Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Certification
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Tonbuloglu, Betül; Gürol, Aysun – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The strong demand and rapid increase in the number of programs concerning distant education programs has put the quality problem of distant education services into the agenda. It is crucial to determine the strengths and weaknesses of distant education programs, the problems encountered by these programs and making the required improvements. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Distance Education, Stakeholders
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Zeller-Berkman, Sarah; Muñoz-Proto, Carolina; Torre, María Elena – Afterschool Matters, 2015
Across the U.S., youth development approaches are being tested in out-of-school time programs as a strategy to combat the growing opportunity gap between privileged and underprivileged youth (Gardner, Roth, & Brooks-Gunn, 2009). Along with increased recognition of the value of youth development programming has come increased financial support…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Participatory Research, Action Research, Community Organizations
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Royal, Kenneth D.; Gilliland, Kurt O.; Kernick, Edward T. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2014
Any examination that involves moderate to high stakes implications for examinees should be psychometrically sound and legally defensible. Currently, there are two broad and competing families of test theories that are used to score examination data. The majority of instructors outside the high-stakes testing arena rely on classical test theory…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Scoring, Evaluation Methods, Anatomy
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