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Campbell, Christine; Gross, Betheny; Hill, Paul T. – Brookings Institution Press, 2012
Deficient urban schooling remains one of America's most pressing--and stubborn--public policy problems. This important new book details and evaluates a radical and promising new approach to K-12 education reform. "Strife and Progress" explains for a broad audience the "portfolio strategy" for providing urban education--its…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Urban Schools, Public Education, Elementary Secondary Education
ACT, Inc., 2011
Annually, ACT provides a snapshot of the college and career readiness of ACT-tested high school graduates. This report is offered as a service to inform policymakers and practitioners about selected indicators of effectiveness and how that translates into readiness. It is designed to stimulate discussion, inquiry, and action. This report for the…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests, Academic Achievement
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Conroy, William G. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1971
Discusses the Massachusetts and New York Evaluation Service Center for Occupational Education at Amherst, Massachusetts, which seeks to develop a mechanism to provide a continuous feedback of program evaluation information to local education agencies offering occupational education. (Author)
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs, Program Evaluation
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Library Development. – 1991
Noting that information is needed about libraries' roles in literacy activities in terms of the outcomes, the Library Programs Office of the U.S. Department of Education awarded the Division of Library Development a grant to develop a model that would evaluate literacy activities in such a fashion. A result of this effort, this library literacy…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs, Evaluation Research
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Jatulis, Linnea L.; Newman, Dianna L. – Evaluation Review, 1991
Interactions of potential loss, time, and self-efficacy on the need for evaluation information for decision making were investigated for 259 managers/nurses (60 percent survey response rate) of home health agencies in New York State. Those with high self-efficacy needed less information in situations of high potential loss and inadequate time.…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Context Effect, Decision Making
BUSSIS, ANNE M.; AND OTHERS – 1965
BECAUSE TEACHERS NEED RESOURCES BOTH TO ASSESS AND TO DEVELOP INTELLECTUAL SKILLS IN YOUNG CHILDREN, THE NEW YORK CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION AND THE EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE UNDERTOOK A PROJECT IN THE FIRST GRADES OF 25 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS DURING THE 1964-1965 SCHOOL YEAR. FOUR ASSUMPTIONS FORMED THE THEORETICAL BASE OF THE PROJECT--(1)…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Cognitive Processes, Environmental Influences, Evaluation Needs
State Univ. of New York, Albany. Office of the Commissioner of Education. – 1976
This document contains the proceedings of a conference focusing on the emerging need for postsecondary educational opportunity programs in New York state. The conference consisted of a series of addresses on issues such as the status of equal educational opportunity programs and the changing climate of higher education and the disadvantaged. In…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Conference Reports, Conferences, Educational Opportunities
Adams, Charles F.; And Others – 1980
IMPACT is a computer-based information system designed to help school districts share materials and expertise and to implement state-mandated evaluation of student achievement. It is designed to meet local, regional, and state evaluation and reporting requirements. Based upon the diagnostic-prescriptive approach to instruction, it consists of: (1)…
Descriptors: Computer Managed Instruction, Criterion Referenced Tests, Curriculum, Databases