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Bywater, Tracey; Gridley, Nicole; Berry, Vashti; Blower, Sarah; Tobin, Kate – Child Care in Practice, 2019
Background: Group-based parent programmes demonstrate positive benefits for adult and child mental health, and child behaviour outcomes. Greater fidelity to the programme delivery model equates to better outcomes for families attending, however, fidelity is typically self-monitored using programme specific checklists. Self-completed measures are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Education, Check Lists, Psychometrics
Gouëdard, Pierre – OECD Publishing, 2021
Across OECD countries, the increasing demand for evidence-based policy making has further led governments to design policies jointly with clear measurable objectives, and to define relevant indicators to monitor their achievement. This paper discusses the importance of such indicators in supporting the implementation of education policies.…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Program Implementation, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
The "Promoting Alternative THinking Strategies (PATHS®)" program is a curriculum that aims to promote emotional and social competencies and to reduce aggression and behavior problems in elementary school children. "PATHS"® is delivered through short lessons given two to three times a week over the school year. The program is…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Intervention, Program Implementation, Best Practices
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Kok, Michele S. Y.; Jones, Mat; Solomon-Moore, Emma; Smith, Jane R. – Health Education, 2018
Purpose: The quality of voluntary sector-led community health programmes is an important concern for service users, providers and commissioners. Research on the fidelity of programme implementation offers a basis for assessing and further enhancing practice. The purpose of this paper is to report on the fidelity assessment of Living Well Taking…
Descriptors: Fidelity, Program Implementation, Diabetes, Health Promotion
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Aziz, Shamsa; Mahmood, Munazza; Rehman, Zahra – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2018
Evaluation denotes the monitoring of progress towards desired goals and objectives. The purpose of this study was to evaluate educational quality at schools using Stufflebeam's CIPP evaluation model (1983). The population comprised the principal, heads of each wing and teachers of various branches of a Welfare School System in Rawalpindi. Data…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Evaluation Methods, Models, Summative Evaluation
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Acar, Cimen; Tekin-Iftar, Elif; Yikmis, Ahmet – Journal of Special Education, 2017
An adapted alternating treatments design was used to compare mother-developed and delivered social stories and video modeling in teaching social skills to children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Mothers' opinions about the social validity of the study were also examined. Three mother-child dyads participated in the study. Results showed that…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Social Development, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Abera, Gemechu; Kedir, Muhammed; Beyabeyin, Maeregu – International Journal of Instruction, 2017
The study was aimed to investigate the implementations and challenges of continuous assessment in selected Public Universities of Eastern Ethiopia. Descriptive survey research design was employed to carry out this study because it is used to describe the characteristics of a given population in a systematic and accurate fashion. Stratified random…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Colleges, Student Evaluation, Program Implementation
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Momoh, U.; Osagiobare, Emmanuel Osamiro – World Journal of Education, 2015
The study investigated principals' implementation of quality assurance standards and administrative effectiveness in public secondary schools in Edo and Delta States. To guide the study, four research questions and hypotheses were raised. Descriptive research design was adopted for the study and the simple random sampling technique was used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance, Educational Quality, Standards
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Dan, Aviva – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2016
Deficits in self-regulatory skills underlie or contribute to a range of adverse developmental problems and disorders, including ADHD (Barkley, 1997), eating disorders (Attie & Brooks-Gunn, 1995) and risk -taking behaviour (Cantor & Sanderson 1998; Eisenberg et al., 2005). Self-regulation has been recognised as an important factor in aiding…
Descriptors: Self Control, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Mixed Methods Research
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Yan, Zi; FitzPatrick, Kathleen – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2016
Cultural competence (CC) has been identified as an important skill for all healthcare and public health professionals, and it must be integrated into all aspects of health practice. However, few university and college health education programs in North America have included CC education in their curriculums. This article describes an…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Health Promotion, Health Behavior, Health Education
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Boavida, Tânia; Aguiar, Cecília; McWilliam, R. A.; Correia, Nadine – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2016
The focus of this study is an in-service training program rooted in routines-based early intervention and designed to improve the quality of goals and objectives on individualized plans. Participants were local intervention team members and other professionals who worked closely with each team. This training program involved a small number of…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Inservice Teacher Education, Professional Personnel, Training
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Fletcher, Gillian – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2015
In this paper, I report on an examination of the rhetoric and implementation of peer education in Myanmar. I demonstrate that while there was widespread consistency on interviewees' views of what peer education should involve, there was a significant gap between this rhetoric and the ways in which peer education was implemented, particularly in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Teaching, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Rhetoric
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Lin, Su-ching; Wu, Ming-sui – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
This study was the first year of a two-year project which applied a program theory-driven approach to evaluating the impact of teachers' professional development interventions on students' learning by using a mix of methods, qualitative inquiry, and quasi-experimental design. The current study was to show the results of using the method of…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Program Evaluation, Intervention, Faculty Development
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Hughes-Scholes, Carolyn H.; Gatt, Sarah L.; Davis, Kate; Mahar, Nicole; Gavidia-Payne, Susana – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2016
The aim of the current pilot study was to evaluate the implementation of a "routines-based early childhood intervention" (RBECI) model by Australian Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) professionals. The RBECI model consisted of four key components: (a) Routines-Based Interviews (RBIs), (b) participation-based goals, (c) home visits, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention, Program Implementation
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Tom-Lawyer, Oris Oritsebemigho – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This paper examines the perceptions of English language lecturers from three colleges of education on the factors that inhibit the implementation process of the revised English Language Nigeria Certificate Education Curriculum. The study which is underpinned by the CIPP Evaluation model is part of a larger study on the evaluation of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language), Certification
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