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Download full textFerris, Helena A.; Collins, Mary E. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
The landscape of medical education is continuously evolving, as are the needs of the learner. The appropriate use of research and evaluation is key when assessing the need for change and instituting one's innovative endeavours. This paper demonstrates how research seeks to generate new knowledge, whereas evaluation uses information acquired from…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Evidence, Evaluation Methods, Models
Direct linkBlack, Paul – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2015
The preceding articles in this issue describe a diverse range of projects which had in common the aim of implementing or improving the practice of formative assessment, and thereby to secure some of the benefits attributed to it. This article attempts to set up a framework within which each of the different studies may be located and…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Role, Evaluation Needs
Goldhaber, Dan – Center for American Progress, 2010
The formula is simple: Highly effective teachers equal student academic success. Yet, the physics of American education is anything but. Thus, the question facing education reformers is how can teacher effectiveness be accurately measured in order to improve the teacher workforce? Given the demand for objective, quantitative measures of teacher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness, Models, Merit Pay
Peer reviewedGerber, Michael M.; Semmel, Melvyn I. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1985
A microeconomic paradigm is proposed for the evaluation of special education in schools. The special education process is described in three phases: referral to special education by the classroom teacher; special classroom program; and mainstreaming. The relationship between referral by teachers, classroom resources, and students' desirable…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs
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
Warmbrod, Catharine P., Comp.; Persavich, Jon J., Comp. – 1981
Designed for use by institutions at the postsecondary level, this program evaluation package contains instructions for planning and implementing an evaluation program, instruments for obtaining information from key sources, and procedures for their use. Covered in the individual chapters are the following topics: an overview of evaluation…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Advisory Committees, Annotated Bibliographies, Attitude Measures
McCaffrey, Daniel F.; Lockwood, J. R.; Koretz, Daniel M.; Hamilton, Laura S. – RAND Corporation, 2003
Value-added modeling (VAM) to estimate school and teacher effects is currently of considerable interest to researchers and policymakers. Recent reports suggest that VAM demonstrates the importance of teachers as a source of variance in student outcomes. Policymakers see VAM as a possible component of education reform through improved teacher…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Accountability, Inferences, Models
