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An Evaluation Framework for Sustaining the Impact of Educational Development
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Hashimoto, Kazuaki; Pillay, Hitendra; Hudson, Peter – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2010
Notwithstanding significant efforts by international aid agencies, aid ineffectiveness became apparent in 1990s as the impact of continued development intervention did not endure the expected outcomes. Conventional monitoring and evaluation by those agencies is critiqued for focusing on measuring project outcomes and giving little attention to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Program Evaluation, Formative Evaluation
Visibly Learning: Teachers' Assessment Practices for Students with High and Very High Needs
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Bourke, Roseanna; Mentis, Mandia; Todd, Liz – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2011
This paper examines the assessment practices of teachers working with students with special educational needs in New Zealand primary and secondary regular and special schools. A national survey was used to identify current assessment practices used by teachers working with students designated, through a resourcing policy, as having high and very…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Formative Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Assistive Technology
Can Economic Development Programs Be Evaluated?
Bartik, Timothy J.; Bingham, Richard D. – 1996
The question of whether economic development programs can be evaluated seems simple, but the answer is not simple because of the nature of evaluation. Determining a program's effectiveness requires the evaluator to distinguish changes due to the program from changes due to nonprogram factors. The evaluator must focus on outcomes caused by the…
Descriptors: Community Development, Comparative Analysis, Demonstration Programs, Developmental Programs
Evaluation of School-Linked Services.
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Gomby, Deanna S.; Larson, Carol S. – Future of Children, 1992
Reviews types of evaluation that may be applied to school-linked services; and discusses the needs for a range of evaluative strategies for program providers, policymakers, and funders. For some programs evaluation will be primarily descriptive, whereas for others a carefully designed outcome evaluation will be possible. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Delivery Systems, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
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Cox, Gary B., Ed. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1994
The nine articles of this special section focus on the role of evaluation in the reform of the mental health system in Washington. The reform process is described from its inception through its design to the dissemination and utilization of evaluation results. The final article considers implications for statewide evaluations. (SLD)
Descriptors: Change, Community Health Services, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Delivery Systems
Critical Pathways to School Readiness: Implications for First 5 Ventura County Strategic Planning, Funding and Evaluation
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Thompson, Lisa; Tullis, Ericka; Franke, Todd; Halfon, Neal – UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, 2005
The UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities (CHCFC) has developed the School Readiness Critical Pathways (SRCPs) as an evidence-based conceptual model that links related outcomes and strategies. This helps to organize an array of broad and diffuse evidence regarding the strategies that produce school readiness outcomes for…
Descriptors: Young Children, Strategic Planning, School Readiness, Models