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Wiley, Jennifer L.; Wiley, Kristofor R.; Intolubbe-Chmil, Loren; Bhuyan, Devi; Acheson, Kris – Journal of Transformative Education, 2021
Transformative learning (TL) goals are becoming commonplace in higher education, continuing education, and other adult learning contexts; however, valid and reliable assessments of TL are not so common. This imbalance begs the development of assessment methods that allow for a deeper understanding of how, when, and why deep reshaping of self takes…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Transformative Learning, Measures (Individuals), Values
Paraskevi Neophytou – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study was to explore Cypriot preschool teachers' and parents' perceptions and attitudes toward the value and contribution of the developed educational assessment instrument for the early identification and intervention for students at risk to present learning disabilities. In this research study, a qualitative research was used…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, At Risk Students
Rasul, Mohamad Sattar; Rauf, Rose Amnah Abd; Mansor, Azlin Norhaini; Puvanasvaran, A. P. – International Education Studies, 2012
Research nationally and internationally found that technical graduates are lacking in employability skills. As employability skills are crucial in outcome-based education, the main goal of this research is to develop an Employability Skill Assessment Tool to help students and lecturers produce competent graduates in employability skills needed by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, Technical Education, Technical Occupations
Parkes, Jay – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2007
Reliability consists of both important social and scientific values and methods for evidencing those values, though in practice methods are often conflated with the values. With the two distinctly understood, a reliability argument can be made that articulates the particular reliability values most relevant to the particular measurement situation…
Descriptors: Validity, Reliability, Evaluation Methods, Measurement
Construct Validation and Application of a Common Measure of Social Cohesion in 33 European Countries
Dickes, Paul; Valentova, Marie; Borsenberger, Monique – Social Indicators Research, 2010
The aim of the paper is to assess the construct validation of a multidimensional measure of social cohesion which is well theoretically grounded and has an equivalent/comparable interpretation across all European countries. Up-to-now published research on social cohesion is deficient in either one or both of these important aspects. This paper…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Multidimensional Scaling, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries
Krause, Merton S. – J Abnorm Psychol, 1969
Research supported in part under Public Health Service Mental Health Project Grant MH-00764 from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Mental Health, Patients, Therapists

Garaway, G. B. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1997
A discussion of current issues in evaluation, related to society's expectation that evaluation is based on scientific authority, is followed by an exploration of concepts of "validity" and "values." The role of the evaluator is increasingly involved in issues of ethics and social justice. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ethics, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Evaluators

Kalliath, Thomas J.; Bluedorn, Allen C.; Gillespie, David F. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1999
Used structural equations modeling to test the competing values framework (CVF) formulated by R. E. Quinn and colleagues and to refine a scale identifying the extent to which managers use the framework to evaluate organizational effectiveness. Results with 300 hospital managers and supervisors support the CVF, and the refined scale yields…
Descriptors: Administrators, Evaluation Methods, Models, Organizational Effectiveness
Pittel, Stephen M.; Mendelsohn, Gerald A. – J Consult Clin Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Evaluation Methods, Moral Values, Test Construction
Hodge, David R. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2007
Cultural competence has become a central social work tenet enshrined in the profession's ethical and educational standards. Few measures of cultural competence exist, however, in spite of an increasing array of religious, ethnic, and racial groups in U.S. society. This article develops a new measure to assess cultural competence among one family…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Religion, Social Work, Evaluation Methods
Cooley, William W. – 1973
Educational research and development (R&D) has often been characterized as a neat, linear sequence of discrete steps, moving from research through development to evaluation and dissemination. Although the inadequacies of such linear models of educational research and development have been pointed out previously, these models have been so much…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Development, Educational Improvement, Educational Research
Ames, Russell; Lied, Terry – 1975
The purpose of this study was to develop and assess the psychometric properties of a measure of teacher value systems. Three value systems were defined as values associated with (1) the pursuit of truth, (2) social and interpersonal relations, and (3) authority and its exercise. The scale was taken through three stages of development and field…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Measurement Techniques
Shaver, James P. – 1986
Three key terms--social studies, values, and attitudes--are discussed in relation to a national assessment in social studies. Definitions of these terms will affect decisions about what and how to assess. Two major approaches define social studies as: (1) social sciences simplified and adapted for pedagogical purposes; or (2) that portion of the…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Citizenship Education, Decision Making, Definitions
Rippey, Robert M. – 1981
Strengths and weaknesses of systems for evaluating teaching in medical schools are reviewed, and a framework for dealing with issues and critical questions is presented. The model addresses the following areas: goals of the school, the purpose of evaluating teaching, standards that characterize the quality of teaching evaluation measures, measures…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Policy, College Role, Evaluation Methods
Patry, Jean-Luc; Gastager, Angela – Quality of Higher Education, 2004
A taxonomy of potential values conflicts in evaluations is presented. Basis is the distinction of types of conflict (aims vs. means conflicts; qualitative vs. quantitative conflicts). Six areas of values are discussed: the ethical, methodical, social and interactive, legal, economic, and personal values. The taxonomy of conflicts between these…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Classification, Values, Conflict