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Brissette, Ian; Wales, Kathleen; O'Connell, Meghan – Journal of School Health, 2013
Background: Addressing the limitations of existing Local Wellness Policies (LWPs) and promoting their implementation remain priorities for health and education agencies. One gap has been the absence of a standard assessment to support LWP revision. During planning for an initiative to improve school nutrition and physical education policy, the…
Descriptors: School Policy, Nutrition, Physical Education, Public Health
Ingels, Steven J.; Herget, Deborah; Pratt, Daniel J.; Dever, Jill; Copello, Elizabeth; Leinwand, Steve – National Center for Education Statistics, 2010
This report examines the results of the field test for the base year of the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09). The general purposes of the field test were, in anticipation of the base-year full-scale effort, to test instruments, forms, and procedures; to experiment with different approaches to questionnaire content and survey…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Field Tests, Sampling, Data Collection
Conley, David; Lombardi, Allison; Seburn, Mary; McGaughy, Charis – Online Submission, 2009
This study reports the preliminary results from a field test of the College-readiness Performance Assessment System (C-PAS), a large-scale, 6th-12th grade criterion-referenced assessment system that utilizes classroom-embedded performance tasks to measure student progress toward the development of key cognitive skills associated with success in…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, Academic Achievement, Performance Tests
Sutphin, Dean; Newsom-Stewart, Mhora – 1992
A pilot study was conducted to field test instruments that could be used to assess, evaluate, and improve curricula to be used in the Agri Tech Prep 2000 (ATP 2000) project. The project features a 4-year tech prep program linking New York high school and postsecondary curricula to prepare students for careers in agriculture or acceptance into a…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Career Choice, Economic Status, Educational Attainment