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Nevada Department of Education, 2008
The Program Quality Criteria include ten components designed to help validate a comprehensive career and technical education (CTE) program. Upon a self review or third party review, any program may use this instrument to determine how the program has made progress in its development. The review instrument is not designed as an evaluation tool,…
Descriptors: Program Improvement, Program Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods, Vocational Education
Heh, Peter – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The current study examined the validation and alignment of the PASA-Science by determining whether the alternate science assessment anchors linked to the regular education science anchors; whether the PASA-Science assessment items are science; whether the PASA-Science assessment items linked to the alternate science eligible content, and what…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Special Education, Science Education, Science Tests
Riggs, Matthew L.; Verdi, Michael P.; Arlin, Patricia K. – Issues in Teacher Education, 2009
In 1998, the California legislature passed Senate Bill SB 2042 which replaced the previous teacher certification legislation. The new law required that all elementary and secondary teacher certification programs in the State of California align their programs with new teaching standards. These standards included Teacher Performance Expectations…
Descriptors: Credentials, Performance Based Assessment, Performance Tests, Program Effectiveness
Arkansas Department of Education, 2009
The purpose of this document is to establish the minimum standards for approval of programs which meet the requirements of the Standards of Accreditation adopted by the State Board of Education February 22, 1984, and have been effective since June 1, 1987. Included are guidelines, which enable school districts to: (1) Establish equitable criteria…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Talent, Program Validation, School Districts
New York State Legislative Commission on Expenditure Review, Albany. – 1988
New York's Special Delinquency Prevention Program (SDPP) was started in 1978 to provide preventive services to youth who most likely might become involved in the juvenile, social services, or mental health systems. In 1987, this program funded 542 community youth programs at a cost of $14 million. This audit assesses the Division for Youth's…
Descriptors: Community Services, Delinquency Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education, Money Management
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1986
Monitoring is an ongoing and systematic activity which provides school districts, private schools, private Early Childhood Services operators, and Alberta Education with information needed to determine whether policies and programs are being implemented as planned, are meeting basic Provincial requirements, and what improvements are needed.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Smartt, Susan M.; Reschly, Daniel J. – National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality, 2007
Despite the fact that the early reading proficiency for all children has become a national mandate captured in both the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the poor performance of America's fourth graders on national examinations of reading proficiency indicates that the nation is far from…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Federal Legislation, Colleges, State Standards
New York State Legislative Commission on Expenditure Review, Albany. – 1988
The New York State Legislature provided $11.2 million to start up, renovate, improve, and/or operate child care centers on campuses of the City University of New York (CUNY) and the State University of New York (SUNY). The 60 child care centers had over 4,500 children enrolled for 1987-88, and 20 centers opened as a direct result of the state…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, College Role, Community Services, Day Care Centers