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Jochums, Brenda L. – 1981
The research reported includes a profile of all sixty ThinkAbout programs with respect to demographic balance, personal/social behaviors portrayed by major characters, and value-laden content. The profile is a summation across a 5-stage content analysis which was integrated with other formative evaluation techniques in the three year ThinkAbout…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Television, Evaluation Methods
Agency for Instructional Television, Bloomington, IN. – 1977
A 10-minute videotape program that reviews library skills was evaluated with 8 fifth and sixth grade classes in the St. Louis area to determine both the effectiveness of the program itself and the method of formative program evaluation. The program used videotaped slides to present program ideas. Questions focused on whether students who viewed…
Descriptors: Educational Television, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation, Intermediate Grades
Callanan, Charles – 1980
The formative evaluation carried out indicated that helpful information and suggestions can be procured by a process evaluation developed on an on-going basis and that constructive feedback for possible program changes can be initiated almost from the very first day. Attempts to relate summative evaluation results to program patterns proved to be…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation
Download full textSkiba, Russell; And Others – 1982
Twenty pairs of students from seven special education resource rooms (elementary and intermediate grades) were assessed on the structure of the instruction they received. Their reading achievement was measured three times during the year. The instructional programs for 10 experimental students were to be based on their teachers' use of continuous…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disabilities, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
Jochums, Brenda; And Others – 1979
The development of content analysis instruments sensitive to the instructional, social, and value-laden content of a television series, was necessary because of formative evaluation needs to establish the congruity of the actual program content with the intended content and to assess the hidden curriculum. Because issues ranged widely, four…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Check Lists, Content Analysis, Data Collection
Coan, Donald L.; And Others – 1977
Field tests on an interpersonal skills instructional program, the Heartsmart Adventures, were conducted for the formative and summative evaluation in 14 classrooms in 7 schools of 394 students in grade 4 classes. The results indicate that the Heartsmart program is likely to provide an appealing, educationally relevant and worthwhile experience to…
Descriptors: Ethnic Bias, Evaluation Methods, Field Studies, Formative Evaluation
Taylor, Patty – 1991
The California Art Education Association conducted a portfolio assessment pilot project to provide visual arts educators with examples of classroom practice to serve as a foundation for further development of performance/portfolio assessment. Key issues addressed during this project included the purposes of assessment portfolios for students and…
Descriptors: Art Education, Creative Thinking, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedClark, H. Clifford; Nelson, Marvin N. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1991
Presents the elementary-level formative evaluation method of functional diagnosis that gives students immediate feedback on completed assignments. Gives three examples of the method as observed in the classrooms of master teachers: putting red dots next to problems needing attention; paired learning, and student answer keys. (MDH)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Diagnostic Teaching, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education
Lai, Morris K. – 1984
This quantitative/qualitative evaluation of an 80-hour course integrating the SCOPE Computer Program in Mathematics and Science into the curriculum for students, grades 6-12, was conducted to: (1) provide immediate feedback to facilitate improvement of the program; (2) determine course effects; and (3) provide practitioners with an effective…
Descriptors: Action Research, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Core Curriculum
Kourilsky, Marilyn L. – 1974
This publication presents a set of successfully field-tested teaching procedures for helping children in grades 3-6 generate a working economic system in their classroom. The developer believes that children will learn economic concepts through real, as opposed to vicarious, experience by playing active, rather than passive, roles in learning…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Concept Teaching, Decision Making Skills, Economics Education
Shrum, Judith L. – 1985
Evaluation of a French and Spanish second language program in grades four through seven of a rural school system has begun with a formative evaluation for the first three years and will conclude with a one-year summative evaluation. The research questions focus on four concerns: (1) school personnel and parent perceptions of the program during its…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Classroom Techniques, Educational Objectives
Herman, Joan – 1987
The Multilevel Evaluation Systems project was field tested in grades 4 and 5 classrooms in five districts of the University of Pennsylvania's School Council. Multilevel evaluation coordinates multiple sources of information (about student characteristics, school context, school and instructional processes, and a range of student outcomes) with…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Data Collection, Databases, Educational Assessment
Harty, Harold; And Others – 1986
The evaluation report by Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation (Columbus, Indiana) describes findings concerning what works and what does not work in the Academic Challenge Program, a gifted and talented education program at the elementary and middle school levels. A corollary purpose of the report is to share the evaluation plan itself,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Affective Objectives, Critical Thinking
