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Marzano, Robert J. – Educational Leadership, 2012
States, districts, and schools all across the United States are busy developing or implementing teacher evaluation systems. One can trace this flurry of activity to a variety of reports and initiatives that highlight two failings of past efforts: (1) Teacher evaluation systems have not accurately measured teacher quality because they've failed to…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Strategies, Teacher Evaluation, Measurement Objectives
Smith, Dedrick A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation reviews the knowledge management's role in organizational maturity in project management. It draws a direct linked between organizational maturity knowledge channels both informal and then formal and organizational project management maturity. The study uses a mixed method approach through online and telephone surveys that draws…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Surveys, Program Administration, Organizational Effectiveness
Murphy, Gerald A.; Calway, Bruce A. – Industry and Higher Education, 2010
Whilst professional development (PD) is an activity required by many regulatory authorities, the value that enterprises obtain from PD is often unknown, particularly when it involves development of knowledge. This paper discusses measurement techniques and processes and provides a review of established evaluation techniques, highlighting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Business, Professional Occupations
New Leaders for New Schools (NJ1), 2010
Effective principals are those who boost academic achievement for all students, increase the effectiveness of their teaching staffs, and consistently take leadership actions shown to improve outcomes for students. Therefore principal evaluation systems should place 70% of their weight on the ability of principals to increase student achievement…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Accountability, Professional Development
Yeo, Kee Meng; Mayadas, A. Frank – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2010
The Sloan Pillars have set the standard for university-wide online learning program assessment for more than a dozen years. In this paper, the authors propose the extension of the Pillars to corporate e-learning, offering an alternative to traditional enterprise learning assessments. Claiming that conventional methods stress individual courses or…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Cost Effectiveness, Corporate Education, Educational Assessment
Lessik, Alan; Michener, Victoria – 2000
This document provides information for managers in the U. S. Agency for International Development on measuring institutional capacity, including some tools that measure the capacity of an entire organization as well as others that look at individual components or functions of an organization. The paper defines and discusses capacity assessment in…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Evaluation Methods, Institutional Characteristics, Measurement Techniques
Institute of Museum and Library Services, Washington, DC. – 2000
If museums and libraries are to compete for both public and private funds in an accountability-driven environment, they must develop evaluation practices that provide the most compelling picture of the impact of their services. The two essays in this document present clear arguments for the adoption of a specific approach to evaluation known as…
Descriptors: Accountability, Change, Evaluation Methods, Libraries

Ross, Linda – Performance Improvement, 2003
Recent work with automotive e-commerce clients led to the development of a performance analysis methodology called the Seven Performance Drivers, including: standards, incentives, capacity, knowledge and skill, measurement, feedback, and analysis. This methodology has been highly effective in introducing and implementing performance improvement.…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Improvement Programs
Kabacoff, Robert I. – International Journal of Testing, 2008
With the growth of globalization, organizations are facing an increased challenge to manage talent, improve employee engagement, develop effective teams, create succession pipelines, and increase organizational effectiveness in multinational settings. Given the need to evaluate and compare individuals from more than one country using standardized…
Descriptors: Motivation, Local Norms, Foreign Countries, Organizational Development
Martorana, S. V.; Kuhns, Eileen – 1978
The discrepancy between aspiration and achievement of institutional goals is analyzed as an important variable in monitoring an innovation through its life cycle from exploration to institutionalization. Although important, this discrepancy, or hiatus, is not sufficient to support an innovation without the concurrent presence of high aspiration…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Innovation
2000
This packet contains three papers from a symposium on feedback systems held at a conference on human resource development (HRD). The first paper, "The Role of Feedback in Management Development Training" (K. Peter Kuchinke), reports on a survey-based study that investigated the role of feedback in nine management development training…
Descriptors: Adults, Business Administration, Educational Needs, Evaluation Methods
Jarosewich, Tania; Essenmacher, Victoria L.; Lynch, Christina Olenik; Williams, Jennifer E.; Doino-Ingersoll, Jo Ann – New Directions for Evaluation, 2006
The American Evaluation Association's (AEA) Independent Consulting Topical Interest Group (IC TIG) has a membership of over eight hundred individuals who generally work as sole proprietors, in partnerships, or in small consulting firms. Well over a decade ago, the IC TIG conducted a survey of its membership (Bonnet, 1992). To gather current data…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Attitude Measures, Small Businesses, Industry
Moy, Janelle; McDonald, Rod – 2000
Recent Australian and overseas studies on evaluation of enterprises' return on training investment (ROTI) were reviewed to identify key issues in encouraging increased evaluation of training benefits by enterprises and successful approaches that may inform future "enterprise-friendly" studies of ROTI. It was concluded that more…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Business Administration, Corporate Education, Cost Effectiveness
Heneman, Robert L., Ed.; Greenberger, David B., Ed. – 2002
This document contains 14 papers on human resources (HR) and human resource management (HRM) in virtual organizations. The following papers are included: "Series Preface" (Rodger Griffeth); "Volume Preface" (Robert L. Heneman, David B. Greenberger); "The Virtual Organization: Definition, Description, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Adult Education, Adult Learning