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Download full textStern, David; Byrnes, Matthew; Levesque, Karen; Lauen, Douglas – 2000
A procedure for assessing and comparing schoolwide change, so that groups of schools could use the resultant information for continuous improvement, was developed. The feasibility of the new assessment procedure was tested by applying the new procedure in 5 schools in the Bay Area School Reform Collaborative (BASRC) in the San Francisco Bay Area,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Croker, Robert E.; And Others – 1996
The feasibility of using W. E. Deming's total quality management (TQM) method to define instructional quality was examined by surveying three groups of students attending Idaho State University's College of Education and School of Applied Technology: 31 students seeking cosmetology certification; 75 undergraduates pursuing degrees in corporate…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Delphi Technique, Educational Attainment, Educational Quality
Barnard, Philip; Dixon, Stella – FEDA Bulletin, 1998
In Great Britain, interest in the measurement of value added was stimulated initially by the requirement that schools and further education (FE) colleges publish league tables of examination results. Value-added data can be aggregated to compare different institutions' performance. Within colleges, value-added data provide a basis for setting…
Descriptors: Accountability, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Feasibility Studies
Bartik, Timothy J. – 1995
The feasibility of using performance indicators to improve the effectiveness of welfare-to-work programs was examined. First, previous and current experience with performance indicators for welfare-to-work and related programs (including the Job Training and Partnership Act and Job Opportunities and Basic Skills programs) was analyzed. Next, the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Employment Programs, Evaluation Criteria
Molnar, Daniel; Pesut, Robert – 1975
The study attempted to determine the feasibility of performing a cost-effectiveness analysis comparing the cooperative method to methods which do not use work experience in vocational training. Twelve school districts in Minnesota, North Carolina, and Ohio provided data for the study, involving the design of data collection instruments for cost…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection
Mundie, Karen; Thompson, Debbie; Joyce, Michelle – 2000
The AIM (Assessment, Instruction, Mastery) system is a performance-based assessment that was developed in Oregon. The AIM system was piloted by 83 volunteers and staff from 18 volunteer-based programs to assess the system's usefulness as a means of collecting and aggregating data on student progress in adult literacy and similar programs in…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
