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Ayers, Samuel J. – 1987
This study attempted to identify efforts to evaluate programs for gifted and talented students in 122 Texas school districts and to compare these practices with those recommended in the literature and with Texas Education Association guidelines. Areas examined included informal and formal assessment of student and teacher identification practices,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Gifted
Kirst, Michael W.; And Others – 1981
The effectiveness with which research findings are disseminated to policy makers in education, particularly at the state level, is explored in the four chapters of this report. In chapter 1, Linda J. Nelson reviews the literature and determines that policy makers do make important, but indirect, use of research. She suggests that research…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Information Dissemination
Shearon, Ronald W.; Brownlee, Irene A. – 1990
Over the past 25 years, five large-scale research studies of community college students have been conducted in North Carolina, involving cooperation between Duke University, North Carolina State University, and the North Carolina Department of Community Colleges. The different research strategies employed in these studies can be seen as taking one…
Descriptors: Action Research, Community Colleges, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods
Campbell, Paul B.; Beers, Joan S. – 1972
Twenty-six papers on evaluation, which were presented at the 1971 American Educational Research Association Convention, are summarized. The papers range from a general overview of evaluation concepts to quite specific evaluative applications. A group of reports concerning state assessment efforts in Florida and Michigan is given separate…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Decision Making, Educational Objectives, Educationally Disadvantaged
Craig, Ford M. – 1991
In an effort to determine the methods used to assess and document student achievement at two-year colleges within the Mid-Plains Technical Community College Area (MPTCCA) in Nebraska and to develop an effective assessment model for use within the MPTCCA, surveys were sent to 79 chief executive officers representing all public, two-year, technical…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Outcomes Assessment, College Role, Community Colleges
Miller, Juliet V.; Wargel, James F. – 1979
Intended for use in inservice training of vocational rehabilitation agency personnel, this facility planning guide is designed to (1) help state agencies understand the new facility planning requirements of the Rehabilitation Comprehensive Services and Developmental Disabilities Amendments of 1978, (2) provide information about a six-step planning…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Facility Planning, Facility Requirements, Facility Utilization Research