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Malouf, David B.; Taymans, Juliana M. – Educational Researcher, 2016
An analysis was conducted of the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) research evidence base on the effectiveness of replicable education interventions. Most interventions were found to have little or no support from technically adequate research studies, and intervention effect sizes were of questionable magnitude to meet education policy goals. These…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Effect Size
Humphrey, Neil – SAGE Publications Ltd (CA), 2013
This important new book provides the first in-depth, authoritative and balanced examination of the critical issues pervading Social and Emotional Learning (SEL). The book highlights strengths and flaws in SEL theory and research, and sets the agenda for the next generation of inquiry. The book investigates key topics such as: (1) definitions and…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Theories, Definitions
Martin, Ian; Carey, John C. – Professional School Counseling, 2012
Many state departments of education have revised their state school counseling models to reflect the ASCA National Model for school counseling programs. Only a few states have developed statewide evaluation systems to gather information about program effectiveness and/or to promote effective local program evaluation. This qualitative study…
Descriptors: State Schools, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, State Departments of Education
Doyle, Michael; Griffin, Martyn – London Review of Education, 2012
Aimhigher was discontinued on 31 July 2011. This paper reviews the literature analysing its contribution to widening participation to higher education in the UK. Successes of Aimhigher are considered alongside its challenges; particularly the necessity to situate policy within the diverse demands of 42 areas covering England. These issues are…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Academic Aspiration, Educational Policy
Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), 2014
In a recent report entitled "All Together Now: Collaboration and Innovation for Youth Engagement,": the Commission on Youth Voting & Civic Knowledge concluded that civic education is a shared responsibility of schools and other institutions. Data suggests, however, that more work is required to provide all young people with the…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship Education, Elementary Secondary Education, High Stakes Tests
Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), 2014
Preparing the next generation of Americans to engage in their communities civically and politically is a shared responsibility. Although civic education takes place every day in homes and community centers, our nation's K-12 schools are in a unique position to nurture and reinforce the civic development of all young people. States influence their…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship Education, Elementary Secondary Education, High Stakes Tests
Ackerman, Debra J.; Coley, Richard J. – Educational Testing Service, 2012
Preschool education is increasingly being recognized as an integral part of efforts to ensure that all children enter school ready to learn and as a way to help close the achievement gaps that exist at the time children enter kindergarten. Such efforts are growing across the country. According to the most recent data, 54 different preschool…
Descriptors: Learning Readiness, Student Evaluation, Preschool Education, Young Children
Implementation of Criteria and Standards-Based Assessment: An Analysis of First-Year Learning Guides
Thomson, Rosemary – Higher Education Research and Development, 2013
Assessment expectations are communicated to students in various ways and at different points in the semester. The provision of written information in learning guides given to students at the start of semester articulates what they are to do and how well they are to perform in assessment tasks. This paper examines how assessment expectations at an…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Feedback (Response), Portfolio Assessment, Teacher Expectations of Students
Skeans, Sharon S.; Smith, Robert G. – School Administrator, 2011
Educational evaluation in too many states and school districts, if done at all across an institution, has been reduced to crunching test scores in only the subject areas and grade levels tested. While measuring student achievement in reliable and valid ways is an important part of the mission of education, it is not enough. What's also needed is a…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, School Districts, Program Descriptions
Kates, Laura R. – Bank Street College of Education, 2011
Are teachers who are faced with mandated assessments more likely or less likely to explore their students' performance in depth and use their discoveries to enrich learning? This is the story of how six first-grade teachers in New York City responded to a mandated performance assessment--and how that response compared to a set of informal,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Performance Based Assessment, Program Effectiveness, Reading Instruction
Davies, Todd Matthew – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation investigates the prevailing No Child Left Behind (NCLB) mandate as an effective platform to improve schools. The data compiled for use in this study represented 426 high schools in Pennsylvania and were retrieved from publicly accessible, state-sponsored sources. The statistical methodologies from the Pennsylvania Value-Added…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Accountability, Program Effectiveness, Federal Programs
Vilgats, Birgit; Heidmets, Mati – Higher Education Policy, 2011
This article seeks to establish what impact external quality assessment had on universities in Estonia between 1997 and 2009. It is based on a study of the analysis of experts' reports of curricula accreditation and interviews with university and programme managers, undertaken between 2007 and 2009. The study included an analysis of 12 curricula…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Expertise, Universities, Reputation
Besharov, Douglas J.; Williams, Heidi – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2012
Innovation inducement prizes have been used for centuries. In the United States, a recent federal policy change--the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010--clarified and simplified a path by which all federal agencies can offer innovation inducement prizes, thus intensifying interest in how government agencies can most effectively design…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Innovation, Incentive Grants, Rewards
Kyriakides, Leonidas; Creemers, Bert; Antoniou, Panayiotis; Demetriou, Demetris – British Educational Research Journal, 2010
This paper reports the results of a meta-analysis in which the dynamic model of educational effectiveness is used as a framework to search for school factors associated with student achievement. The methods and results of a synthesis of 67 studies are presented. Findings reveal that effective schools are able to develop policies and take actions…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Program Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Academic Achievement
Crohn, Kara; Birnbaum, Matthew – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2010
Evaluation in environmental education is fairly nascent despite decades-long attention to its importance. In setting the context for future chapters appearing in this special issue of the "Journal of Evaluation and Program Planning," attention is devoted to the political circumstances associated with retrenchment in the public sector and increased…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Democracy, Public Sector, Public Policy