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Masrek, Mohamad Noorman bin – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to evaluate the effectiveness or success of universities' portal implementation from the perspective of students as users. Adopting the model developed by Delone and McLean, portal effectiveness is defined as being composed of information quality, systems quality and service quality. In addition, the paper also…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, User Satisfaction (Information), Program Effectiveness, Questionnaires
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Ranson, Sonya L.; Boothby, John; Mazmanian, Paul E.; Alvanzo, Anika – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2007
Introduction: As the use of personal digital assistants (PDAs) grows, the value of reflection of learning and practice draws increased attention from policymakers and evaluators. To learn more about the use of PDAs in practice and learning, the present study describes use of (1) PDAs in patient care and (2) a PDA version of the Virginia Board of…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Physicians, Access to Information, Program Effectiveness
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Johnston, Keith; Murchan, Damian; Loxley, Andrew; Fitzgerald, Helen; Quinn, Micheline – Irish Educational Studies, 2007
The Regional Curriculum Support Service (RCSS) was established to provide locally based advice and support to principals and teachers in relation to the implementation of the Primary School Curriculum (1999). Drawing on data from a large-scale national evaluation, this article traces the purpose, structure and operation of the RCSS and provides…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes
Hall, Ralph – Learning Assistance Review, 2007
Peer mentoring programs are designed to address problems experienced by new students to assist them in making the transition to university study. The University of New South Wales offers such a program to new undergraduate students. Feedback on the program is obtained from participants through questionnaires and is used to identify problems and to…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Undergraduate Students, Mentors, Program Improvement
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Malm, Birgitte; Lofgren, Horst – Journal of Peace Education, 2007
DRACON (DRAma for CONflict management) is an interdisciplinary and comparative action research project aimed at improving conflict handling among adolescent schoolchildren through the use of educational drama. The main purpose of our research has been to develop an integrated programme using conflict management as the theory and practice, and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Conflict, Diaries, Conflict Resolution
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Parke, Carol S.; Lane, Suzanne – Elementary School Journal, 2007
The purpose of the study reported in this article was to provide empirical evidence of students' views about a state performance assessment and its effects in science and social studies classrooms in Maryland. We developed 2 student questionnaires, 1 for each subject, and administered them to a statewide, stratified random sample of students in…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Federal Legislation, Grade 4, Questionnaires
Shonrock, Diana D., Ed. – 1996
Libraries devote serious resources to user-education programs and need to measure their effectiveness with hard data. This guide was designed to simplify the evaluation planning process and the making of evaluation instruments. The material was developed from hundreds of survey instruments used by librarians around the country. The handbook…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Library Instruction, Library Planning
Wood, Richard J. – 1983
A study was conducted to determine the educational value and effectiveness of a one-credit library research course offered since 1981 at Slippery Rock University (SRU) in Pennsylvania. The course is based on a workbook adapted from the one used at Pennsylvania State University and students are required to complete workbook exercises and to compile…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Instruction, Library Skills
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College Composition and Communication, 1982
Designed to evaluate high school or college writing programs and writing instruction, this instrument includes six different questionnaires that provide information about the foundations of the writing program; teachers' assumptions, goals, and plans; classroom activities as observed by colleagues; the quality of writing assignments; the quality…
Descriptors: Adult Education, High Schools, Postsecondary Education, Program Content
Boss, Richard D.; Bodine, Merle W. – Technical Education News, 1975
A study, based on participant interviews and questionnaires examining the Wisconsin institutional job training programs funded under the Manpower Development and Training Act from 1962 to 1973, showed that all the individuals who participated in the programs received some benefit; those who completed the training benefited most. (AG)
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Labor Force Development, Longitudinal Studies, Program Effectiveness
National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators, Albany, NY. – 1986
Data were gathered by circulating questionnaires to each state archive, making site visits to representative archives, and holding discussions with key state archives and preservation leaders. The 2-year study concludes that no state archive currently approaches the goal of providing total preservation care for its holdings. Comprehensive and…
Descriptors: Archives, Cooperative Programs, Facility Improvement, Federal Government
Unruh, W. R.; Johnson, F. T. – 1983
This report presents results from an evaluation of a series of workshops on the role and function of the school principal, held in Alberta, Canada in 1983. The workshops were designed to assist school systems in defining the role and function of principals as a step toward developing policies for implementing changes related to the principalship.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation, Foreign Countries
Moulden, H. – 1979
This article presents the results of an experiment that was set up to determine the effectiveness of a self-directed learning method in English for Special Purposes at the "Ecole des Mines" in France. A group of students devoted two of their allotted three-and-one-half hours per week to semi-autonomous work. Through a questionnaire, the…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, English for Special Purposes, Higher Education, Independent Study
KNOLL, PETER F., JR.; STEPHENS, JOHN F. – 1968
THE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF THIS INVESTIGATION WERE TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT OF UTAH'S INSERVICE TRAINING PROGRAM, COMPARE IT WITH THAT OF OTHER STATES, DETERMINE ITS EFFECTIVENESS, AND ASCERTAIN PROBLEM AREAS AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT. DATA WERE COLLECTED BY A SURVEY OF OTHER STATE PROGRAMS, PERSONAL INTERVIEWS WITH STATE VOCATIONAL…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Program Effectiveness, Questionnaires, State Surveys
McKinney, William Lynn – 1974
Focusing primarily on test data from locally developed tests, the document presents results and an evaluation of the first year of a program developed for elementary grades at Dutemple School, Cranston, R. I. The first section discusses behavioral objectives and presents pre- and posttest results, grade by grade tabulated to show levels of…
Descriptors: Career Education, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education, Program Effectiveness
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