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Clairmont, Albert Anthony; Katz, Daniel; Wilton, Mike – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2021
This study demonstrates the importance of Rasch Measurement Theory (RMT) in program evaluation when outcome measures need to be constructed from scratch. The paper introduces typical measure validation methods presented in program evaluation texts and discusses room for improvement. The study then illustrates how the seamless transitions from…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Measurement Techniques, Validity, Ethnography
Guarino, Cassandra M. – Education Policy Center at Michigan State University, 2013
The push for accountability in public schooling has extended to the measurement of teacher performance, accelerated by federal efforts through Race to the Top. Currently, a large number of states and districts across the country are computing measures of teacher performance based on the standardized test scores of their students and using them in…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Models, Program Descriptions
Small, Ruth V.; Arnone, Marilyn P. – Knowledge Quest, 2014
Just as with print resources, as the number of Web-based resources continues to soar, the need to evaluate them has become a critical information skill for both children and adults. This is particularly true for schools where librarians often are called on to recommend Web resources to classroom teachers, parents, and students, and to support…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Computer Software Evaluation, Measurement Techniques, Motivation
Chouinard, Jill Anne – American Journal of Evaluation, 2013
Evaluation occurs within a specific context and is influenced by the economic, political, historical, and social forces that shape that context. The culture of evaluation is thus very much embedded in the culture of accountability that currently prevails in public sector institutions, policies, and program. As such, our understanding of the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Public Sector, Participatory Research, Context Effect
Simon, Samuel H. – Music Educators Journal, 2014
In music education, current assessment trends emphasize student reflection, tracking progress over time, and formative as well as summative measures. This view of assessment requires instrumental music educators to modernize their approaches without interfering with methods that have proven to be successful. To this end, the Longitudinal Scales…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Music Education, Measurement Techniques, Evaluation Methods
Scholl, Kathleen; Olsen, Heather M. – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2014
U.S. higher education institutions are being called to question their central nature, priorities, and functions, with prominent and unprecedented attention being given to accountability and the measurement of student learning outcomes. As higher education evolves in how it assesses student learning and leisure studies and recreation departments…
Descriptors: Outcome Measures, Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Evaluation Methods
Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (NJ1), 2012
These protocols represent a working guide for planning and implementing national sample assessments in connection with the national Key Performance Measures (KPMs). The protocols are intended for agencies involved in planning or conducting national sample assessments and personnel responsible for administering associated tenders or contracts,…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Protocol Analysis, Sampling, Program Development
Pounder, Diana – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2012
This article addresses the leadership preparation line of inquiry developed in the past decade by the University Council for Educational Administration/Learning and Teaching in Educational Leadership Special Interest Group Taskforce on Evaluating Leadership Preparation Programs, and it particularly addresses the series of survey instruments…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Educational Administration, Instructional Leadership, Program Evaluation
Keeley, Page – Science and Children, 2011
Assessment serves many purposes in the elementary classroom. Formative assessment, often called assessment for learning, is characterized by its primary purpose--promoting learning. It takes place both formally and informally, is embedded in various stages of an instructional cycle, informs the teacher about appropriate next steps for instruction,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Formative Evaluation, Physical Sciences, Science Course Improvement Projects
Ashford-Rowe, Kevin H.; Holt, Marnie – Online Submission, 2011
The "emerging educational institutional decision-making matrix" is developed to allow educational institutions to adopt a rigorous and consistent methodology of determining which of the myriad of emerging educational technologies will be the most compelling for the institution, particularly ensuring that it is the educational or pedagogical but…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Educational Technology, Computer Software Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Wagoner, Richard L.; Besikof, Rudolph J. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
This article describes the Voluntary Support for Education (VSE) Survey, an instrument created by the Council for Aid to Education. Our objective is to explain VSE's potential value as a tool to inform both institutional and academic research regarding fund-raising activities at community colleges. Of particular interest is how the data available…
Descriptors: Fund Raising, Community Colleges, College Presidents, School Surveys
Isenberg, Eric; Hock, Heinrich – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2011
This report presents the value-added models that will be used to measure school and teacher effectiveness in the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) in the 2010-2011 school year. It updates the earlier technical report, "Measuring Value Added for IMPACT and TEAM in DC Public Schools." The earlier report described the methods used…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Teacher Effectiveness, School Effectiveness, Models
Pirnay-Dummer, Pablo; Ifenthaler, Dirk; Spector, J. Michael – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2010
Effective and efficient measurement of the development of skill and knowledge, especially in domains of human activity that involve complex and challenging problems, is important with regard to workplace and academic performance. However, there has been little progress in the area of practical measurement and assessment, due in part to the lack of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques, Internet, Educational Assessment
Baldwin, Christopher; Bensimon, Estela Mara; Dowd, Alicia C.; Kleiman, Lisa – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2011
Student success is at the heart of both institutional effectiveness and the community college mission, yet measuring such success at community colleges is problematic. This article highlights three efforts to grapple with this problem--a multistate work group of system- and state-level policymakers to create an improved set of student success…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Institutional Evaluation, Measurement, Measurement Techniques
Davidson, Jill – Theory Into Practice, 2009
Exhibitions are public demonstrations of mastery that occur at culminating moments, such as at the conclusion of a unit of study, the transition from one level of schooling to the next, and graduation. Exhibitions require students to speak publicly, use evidence, present engaging visual displays, and otherwise demonstrate mastery to educators,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation