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Alliance for Excellent Education, 2009
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) "The High Cost of High School Dropouts": New Alliance Brief Says Dropouts from the Class of 2009 Represent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Education Work Relationship, Dropouts
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Turnbull, B. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1999
Used an intervening mechanism design (H. Chen, 1990) in conjunction with structural equation modeling to test the plausibility of a model of participatory evaluation in a study involving 315 teachers participating in the British Columbia (Canada) school-accreditation program. Results support the model as an explanation of how participatory…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Evaluation Utilization, Foreign Countries, Structural Equation Models
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Turnbull, Barbara – Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation/La Revue canadienne d'evaluation de programme, 1998
A second-order factor analytic model of conceptual, instrumental, and symbolic use of evaluation information was developed and tested with 308 British Columbia school teachers. Results confirm a three-factor structure of conceptual, instrumental, and symbolic use. (SLD)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Utilization, Factor Structure
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Ekezie, Anthony I. A. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1994
A survey of 90 teachers of agriculture, 15 administrators, and 95 teacher educators indicates that evaluation and research methods have been adopted in agricultural education preparation in 9 Nigerian states. The extent to which these methods are perceived as important by education students is not clear. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administrators, Agricultural Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization
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Geva-May, Iris; Peretz, Hannah – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1991
The extent to which evaluation results answer different stakeholders' needs was explored in the evaluation of a business English course at Van Leer Institute for the Development of Executive Assistants in Tel-Aviv (Israel), using diagnostic tests. Students (n=52), teachers, curriculum team, and administrators could use the evaluation results. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administrators, Business Education, Business English, Diagnostic Tests
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Huberman, Michael – American Educational Research Journal, 1990
A multiple-case, "tracer" study was undertaken involving 11 research projects of the "Education et Vie Active" (Education and the Active Life)--a national vocational education program in Switzerland--to assess the importance of contacts between researchers and practitioners. Iterative data from interviews, observations, and…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Evaluation Utilization, Evaluators, Field Studies
Rees, Ruth – 1989
The influences within the Ontario educational system perceived by teachers, department heads, and principals as affecting their evaluation policies and practices were studied. Interviews were conducted in the 1987-88 school year as part of the Ecology of Evaluation research project conducted in Ontario and British Columbia. About 50 elementary and…
Descriptors: Administrators, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education