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Brookhart, Susan M. – ASCD, 2015
In this book, best-selling author Susan M. Brookhart helps teachers and administrators understand the critical elements and nuances of assessment data and how that information can best be used to inform improvement efforts in the school or district. Readers will learn: (1) What different kinds of data can--and cannot--tell us about student…
Descriptors: Data, Decision Making, Student Evaluation, Data Analysis
Piety, Philip J. – Teachers College Press, 2013
For better or worse, many educational decisions that were once handled on a personal level by teachers or administrators now increasingly rely upon data and information. To be successful in this era, educators need to understand this broad sociotechnical revolution and how it is realigning traditional roles and responsibilities. In this book, the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Policy, Evidence, Information Systems
Schmidt, Richard E.; And Others – 1979
Evaluability assessment is a descriptive and analytic process intended to produce a reasoned basis for proceeding with an evaluation of use to both management and policymakers. It was jointly developed by the members of the program evaluation group of the Urban Institute between 1968 and 1978. The approach begins by obtaining management's…
Descriptors: Administrators, Data Collection, Decision Making, Expectation
Lehming, Rolf, Ed.; Kane, Michael, Ed. – 1981
This book deals with studies of how new ideas, materials, or technologies can be used to improve elementary and secondary schools. Ernest House examines knowledge use in educational innovation from the technological perspective, which sees teaching as a technique that can be analyzed by subdividing it into its components; the political…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Cherns, A. B.; And Others – 1974
Within the context of UNESCO publications concerning science development, this first survey of country studies on Belgium, Chile, Egypt, Hungary, Nigeria and Sri Lanka gives information on the present state and organizational structure of social sciences. Evaluations of achievements which should contribute to the development of research and…
Descriptors: Careers, Comparative Analysis, Financial Support, Government Role
California Media and Library Educators Association. – 1994
This handbook is designed to help classroom teachers, library media specialists, and others who wish to integrate information literacy into their curriculum. It provides models and strategies which encourage children and young adults to find, analyze, create, and use information as they become productive citizens. The following topics are…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Curriculum Development, Educational Planning, Educational Strategies