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Download full textSteuck, Kurt; Fleming, J. L. – 1990
This paper posits a taxonomy for categorizing issues that arise in the evaluation of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs). The taxonomy has three dimensions: Life Cycle of Evaluation, Research Issues, and Methodological Issues. The Life Cycle dimension has four levels: pre-experimental, laboratory study, field study, and initial operational test…
Descriptors: Classification, Cost Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods, Experiments
Horn, Robert E. – Performance and Instruction, 1992
Describes research and evaluation on the Information Mapping method of structured analysis and writing of training and reference documents to illustrate how a flaw in research design can cause "little or no effect" results. Information retrieval experiments, learning experiments, and field tests are examined for problems, including size…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Field Tests, Information Retrieval, Learning Strategies
Peer reviewedMorocco, Catherine Cobb – Evaluation and Program Planning: An International Journal, 1985
A three-dimensional framework presents faculty, student, and curriculum variables critical to the implementation and outcomes of multicultural programs. The framework emerged from the formative evaluation of a new interdisciplinary social science curriculum and guided the design of the national field test of that curriculum in community college…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Field Tests
Posante-Loro, Rebecca; And Others – 1980
The overall purpose of the national Head Start evaluation is to assess the impact, on the children and parents being served, of: (1) the educational services component of Head Start, and (2) a new demonstration program within Head Start, Basic Educational Skills (BES). The evaluation deals with a total of 65 Head Start programs and their families.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Data Collection, Disadvantaged Youth
Lucht, Angelin S.; And Others – 1981
The Supervisory Behavior Description Questionnaire (SBDQ), Form 2, is a modified semantic differential scale using five pairs of bipolar adjectives to describe supervisory behavior. Form 2 of the instrument was field tested to determine which supervisory behaviors 60 graduate students in education perceived as satisfying or motivating. These…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Field Tests, Measurement Techniques
McNeil, Judy T. – 1980
The overall purpose of the national Head Start evaluation is to assess the impact, on the children and parents being served, of: (1) the educational services component of Head Start, and (2) a new demonstration program within Head Start, Basic Educational Skills. The evaluation deals with a total of 65 Head Start programs and their families. This…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Sistrunk, Walter E. – 1981
The development of two instruments useful in evaluating supervisory behavior is described in this paper. Form 1 of the Supervisory Behavior Description Questionnaire (SBDQ) is an ordinal-type scale originally composed of eight sub-scales and 132 triads of items. Each item is composed of a very directive statement, a collaborative statement, and a…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Field Tests
McKinney, Floyd L.; Kohan, Alan – 1986
The National Center for Research in Vocational Education (NCRVE) was consulted to improve the formative evaluation design for the Principles of Technology (PT) curriculum materials developed by the Center for Occupational Research and Development (CORD) and the Agency for Instructional Technology (AIT). Because the NCRVE entered the formative…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Curriculum Development, Educational Research
