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Ehren, M. C. M.; Honingh, M. E. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2011
This paper compares and contrasts the program theory of the reenacted Supervision Act to the Supervision Act of 2003. We describe how the expectations about how schools should be inspected, the effect such inspections are expected to have, and how these effects should be realized have changed over the past years as a result of changing paradigms…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Supervision, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
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Sondergeld, Toni A.; Koskey, Kristin L. K. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2011
An abundance of comprehensive school reform (CSR) literature exists illustrating CSRs are effective in improving student outcomes. However, much of this research reports on top-down reforms, focuses on academic outcomes, and uses quantitative methods alone. Many educational researchers have argued for the use of mixed methods for providing a…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Holistic Evaluation, Educational Indicators, Program Effectiveness
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Hashimoto, Kazuaki; Pillay, Hitendra; Hudson, Peter – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2010
Notwithstanding significant efforts by international aid agencies, aid ineffectiveness became apparent in 1990s as the impact of continued development intervention did not endure the expected outcomes. Conventional monitoring and evaluation by those agencies is critiqued for focusing on measuring project outcomes and giving little attention to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Program Evaluation, Formative Evaluation
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Smith, Kari – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2011
A prerequisite for AfL to be successfully implemented in the classroom is the teachers' assessment practice. In many contexts, including the Norwegian, AfL has not been successfully dealt with during initial teacher education, and there is a need for qualified teachers to engage in professional development in AfL. This article first discusses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Research and Development, Teacher Improvement
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Gastic, Billie; Irby, Decoteau J.; Zdanis, Maureen – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2008
In this essay, we describe our experiences working with a rebellious primary stakeholder, Sylvia, as evaluators of a district-wide safe schools program. Given the breadth of the program and its multiple target constituencies, we were confronted with the challenges of managing a large number of stakeholders, or those individuals and groups that…
Descriptors: Evaluators, School Districts, Problems, Interpersonal Relationship
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Birenbaum, Menucha; Kimron, Helena; Shilton, Hany – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2011
The study investigated the relationships between assessment for learning (AfL) and attributes of two school-related contexts--the classroom assessment culture (CAC) in which AfL is embedded, and the larger context in which CAC is nested, namely the school-based professional learning community (SBPLC). The research design comprised two…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Elementary School Teachers, Classroom Environment, Educational Assessment
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Azzam, Tarek; Szanyi, Michael – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2011
A sample of educational evaluators was asked to design an outcomes-focused evaluation of a school program that aims to improve the academic achievement and self-esteem of students. Evaluators provided detailed descriptions of their evaluation design and methodology in their responses. These descriptions were coded and analyzed to determine the…
Descriptors: Design, Academic Achievement, Self Esteem, Preferences
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Sylvestre, John; Cousins, J. Bradley; Sundar, Purnima; Aubry, Tim; Hinsperger, Val – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2008
This article describes the planning of a multi-agency and multi-stakeholder evaluation of the implementation of supportive housing. The Ottawa Housing"Plus" Collaborative Communities project is a collaboration between university-based evaluators and members of a local network of supportive housing providers. The objectives of the…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Housing, Social Services, Foreign Countries
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Cornachione, Edgard B., Jr.; Trombetta, Maria R.; Casa Nova, Silvia P. C. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2010
To what extent does the intense and direct involvement of internal stakeholders, such as program managers and staff members, play a significant role toward evaluation use? Stakeholder involvement is a key element in evaluation and evaluation use is considered within a broader sense that includes organizational knowledge, individual skills, and…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods, Stakeholders
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Tillema, Harm; Leenknecht, Martijn; Segers, Mien – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2011
The interest in "assessment for learning" (AfL) has resulted in a search for new modes of assessment that are better aligned to students' learning how to learn. However, with the introduction of new assessment tools, also questions arose with respect to the quality of its measurement. On the one hand, the appropriateness of traditional,…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Criteria, Quality Control, Program Effectiveness
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Wallace, Tanner LeBaron – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2008
This article describes an effectiveness evaluation of an intensive case management intervention coordinated by a non-profit organization in a midsize Midwest City. As an effectiveness evaluation, the primary evaluation question was causal in nature; the key task of the evaluative study was to establish and probe connections between the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Youth, Program Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods
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Poth, Cheryl-Anne; Shulha, Lyn – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2008
This chapter describes evaluator behaviors revealed by the case analysis of a participatory and developmental evaluation. The analysis revealed that the evaluator paid specific attention to individual stakeholder cues. These cues were related to three elements of the evaluation: negotiating the design, monitoring individual stakeholder needs, and…
Descriptors: Cues, Evaluators, Evaluation Methods, Case Studies
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Hutchinson, Carolyn; Young, Myra – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2011
In many European languages, the words "assessment" and "evaluation" are synonymous, but in English the two terms are used differently. Educational "assessment" is learner-focused and part of professional pedagogy, relating directly to the accountability of practitioners and schools to learners and their families.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence, Communities of Practice, Student Evaluation
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Bakker, Mirjam E. J.; Roelofs, Erik C.; Beijaard, Douwe; Sanders, Piet F.; Tigelaar, Dineke E. H.; Verloop, Nico – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2011
This study reports on the development and usefulness of an assessment procedure for teachers' coaching competence. We examined the usefulness of the developed procedure with respect to making reliable judgments. Video portfolios were constructed by researchers, which consisted of deliberately planned video recordings of teachers' coaching…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Portfolios (Background Materials), Interrater Reliability, Teaching Methods
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Smith, J. David; Ryan, Wendy; Cousins, J. Bradley – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2007
The problem of bullying has gained attention in recent years. Schools are investing significant resources into antibullying programs, despite scant evidence of program effectiveness. Three hundred ninety-five schools responded to a province-wide survey, whose purpose was (a) to describe the evaluation activities of schools relative to their…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Bullying
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