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Waryas, Diane E. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2015
This chapter explores the importance of systematic evaluation of co-curricular activities directed at graduate- and professional- school students. Approaches to assessment and benefits of sound practice are presented along with the critical role that institutional researchers can play.
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Professional Education, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Blouin, David D.; Moss, Alison R. – Teaching Sociology, 2015
Twenty years ago, Pescosolido and Milkie (1995) reported that 50 percent of U.S. and Canadian sociology graduate programs offered formal teacher training. Despite pronouncements that offerings have increased substantially, no similarly thorough and direct investigation has been published since. In this time of dramatic change and increasing…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Relevance (Education), Teacher Education Programs, Sociology
Duby, Paul B.; Ganzert, Charles F.; Bonsall, David L. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2014
This chapter is a case study of one institution's effort to institutionalize a process through which student development is promoted through active engagement with the community.
Descriptors: Student Participation, Case Studies, Student Development, School Community Programs
Lee, Lung-Sheng Steven – Online Submission, 2013
Globalization in the 21st century has brought innumerable challenges and opportunities to universities and countries. Universities are primarily concerned with how to ensure the quality of their education and how to boost their local and global competitiveness. The pressure from both international competition and public accountability on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Accountability, Quality Control, Foreign Countries
McShane, Michael Q.; Kisida, Brian; Jensen, Laura I.; Wolf, Patrick J. – School Choice Demonstration Project, 2012
This report is the fifth in a series of annual reports produced by the School Choice Demonstration Project (SCDP) providing descriptive information about the schools participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP). Following a brief history of the MPCP, this year's report contains descriptive statistics about schools participating in…
Descriptors: Private Schools, School Choice, Demonstration Programs, Program Effectiveness
Booth, Eric A.; Capraro, Mary Margaret; Capraro, Robert M.; Chaudhuri, Nandita; Dyer, James; Marchbanks, Miner P., III – Journal of Developmental Education, 2014
This article provides insights from a 2-year, cross-site evaluation of state funded developmental education sites and serves as a focus article for response by those sites. Receiving grants from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB), nine sites (5 community colleges and 4 universities) implemented innovative developmental education…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Models, Developmental Programs, Public Policy
Altanopoulou, Panagiota; Dontsidou, Maria; Tselios, Nikolaos – Quality in Higher Education, 2012
In this article, 93 Greek university departments were evaluated according to their academics' h-index. A representative sample from the fields of social sciences and humanities, sciences, engineering, pharmacy and economics was adopted. In the reported study, 3354 (approximately 1 out of 3) academics serving in Greek universities were evaluated.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Sciences, Intellectual Disciplines, Humanities
Davies, Dan – Evaluation and Research in Education, 2007
This paper reports on a commissioned research project to evaluate the impact of support (mainly funding) given by the UK Government's National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) to various projects under the general heading of "science learning" over a four-year period (2000-2004). Findings emerging from the study…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Program Evaluation, Institutional Mission, Endowment Funds

Ewell, Peter T. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1989
Information use can be defined in many ways depending on a variety of organizational, personal, and presentational factors. The experience of evaluation researchers provides some guides for practice. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Conley, Valerie Martin – American Association of University Professors, 2007
The Committee on Retirement of the American Association of University Professors initiated its first retirement policies survey in 2000 to address a lack of reliable and systematically collected information on retirement policies and practices across U.S. institutions of higher education. At the end of the 1990s, there was a sense that…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Incentives, College Faculty, Change Strategies
National PTA, Chicago, IL. – 1982
Prepared for parents, this handbook aims to help them study and assess their public schools. An introduction presents the reasons parents should gather information on their schools and discusses planning the project, organizing the group, and conducting the evaluation. Next, 13 qualities of an academically effective school are listed. Nine…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Institutional Characteristics, Institutional Evaluation

Howard, Richard D.; Rogers, Brenda H. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1991
The article proposes that the key to tracking and evaluating the academic progress of college students, particularly at complex institutions, is development of a longitudinal tracking system with flexibility to support a diverse community of users and applications. Considerations for efficient maintenance and effective use of such a system are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Higher Education, Information Utilization, Institutional Characteristics
Florida Community Coll., Jacksonville. – 1989
The institutional assessment model described in this report is used by Florida Community College at Jacksonville (FCCJ) to collect current information needed to update the goals of service and instructional units, identify opportunities for improvement and growth, and assess the resources of the college. The first sections of the paper explain the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Johnson, F. Craig; Christal, Melodie E. – Association for Institutional Research, 1985
The way that a college can transform its periodic self-study process into an ongoing program is addressed, with a focus on the contribution of the institutional research office. Also considered are data elements that self-studies most often require and the way that data elements relate to judgments and interpretations made through the self-study.…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Programs, Educational Resources, Evaluation Methods
Howard Community Coll., Columbia, MD. Office of Planning and Evaluation. – 2001
Illustrates progress made at Howard Community College (HCC) in the last three years in efforts to improve student learning, instructional effectiveness, and curriculum. Information for this progress report was compiled with input from offices involved in monitoring outcomes assessment of student learning at the college. These include the office of…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), College Outcomes Assessment, Community Colleges, Curriculum Evaluation
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