The BRIGHT program was designed to improve the educational outcomes of children in Burkina Faso. It focused on girls in particular and was implemented in 132 rural villages throughout the 10 provinces of the country in which girls' enrollment rates were lowest. It consisted of constructing primary schools with three classrooms and implementing a…

The paper will present findings from a Social Science and Humanities Research (SSHRC) funded participatory evaluation conducted over the past four years in the Cree nation of Wemindji in Quebec, Canada. COOL (Challenging Our Own Limits) or "Nigawchiisuun" in Cree, was launched in 2003 as part of a broader program of governance…

Colorado State University (CSU) is located in Fort Collins, which is a midsize city of 134,000 situated in Northern Colorado at the western edge of the Great Plains and at the base of the Rocky Mountains. CSU's total enrollment is approximately 25,000 students. The Division of Student Affairs comprises 30 departments organized into programmatic…

This study explores the efforts at Brigham Young University to improve preservice candidates' technology integration using the Teacher Work Sample (TWS) as an assessment tool. Baseline data that was analyzed from 95 TWSs indicated that students were predominantly using technology for productivity and information presentation purposes even though…

One goal of site-based management in schools is to move decision making on policy issues closer to the point of implementation. Therefore it is important for teachers and administrators at a site to have the information and assistance necessary to make informed decisions. To help site personnel gain this information and evaluate data, a "site…

The gap between evaluation theory and practice can be closed through a concrete system for effectively evaluating a training program to ensure that it contributes to an organization's success. The Training Effectiveness Evaluation (TEE) system can be applied to any training program in industry. It consists of three major elements: (1) an…

This evaluation report describes the process by which a large urban-suburban school system evaluated a locally developed, systemwide, kindergarten through grade 12 science program and the results of the evaluation. The evaluation was based upon a set of broad evaluation questions related to three components of the science program: (1) the science…

The Program Standards Evaluation System was developed in response to evaluation requirements in the 1973 Rehabilitation Act. The system includes procedures for using standards data to monitor and evaluate vocational rehabilitation (VR) service outcomes and outputs as well as standards on key procedural issues. The system includes procedures for…

The Reflective Appraisal of Programs (RAP) approach allows county extension staff (in cooperation with volunteer leaders, specialists, and district staff) to obtain systematic evidence on results that participants perceive to have occurred in the months or years following their involvement in an extension program. Simpler than a…

This booklet briefly describes the potentials and problems of different ways of assessing the short-term impact of early childhood Title I (ECT-I) programs. It is intended for education officials and evaluators who already know something of Title I evaluation, but who may not be familiar with the special issues involved in evaluation of early…

THE DIMENSIONS OF PROGRAM EVALUATION ARE OUTLINED, SOME NON-TEST METHODS WHICH CAN BE USED ARE DESCRIBED, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF MONITORING AND CONTROLLING THE INTERVENTION ARE STRESSED. THE IMPORTANCE OF TEAMWORK BETWEEN EVALUATORS AND INTERVENTIONISTS IS ILLUSTRATED AND THE VALUE OF SUCH AN APPROACH IN FURTHERING THE CLEAR CONCEPTUALIZATION AND…

SEVERAL STUDIES OF LABORATORY TRAINING PROGRAMS IN INDUSTRY ARE ASSESSED IN TERMS OF THEIR POTENTIAL USEFULNESS (DO THEY ACCOMPLISH INTENDED CHANGES IN PARTICIPANTS THAT ARE LASTING OR SELF-REINFORCING, AND HOW DO THEY COMPARE WITH OTHER METHODS IN ACCOMPLISHING SIMILAR GOALS) AND ACTUAL CONTRIBUTION (DOES PARTICIPATION LEAD TO LASTING CHANGE IN…

Described is the development of an instrument to evaluate the relationship between expenditures and effectiveness of special education programs. It is explained that the quality indicator instrument, developed through the Delphi process and refined through item analysis, consists of 38 items in seven areas, including instructional setting,…

In order to better measure outputs in the student personnel services, an attempt was made through an all day off-campus student affairs retreat to develop a model which would identify the desired outcome, indicate the accountable area, specify the method of accomplishing the outcome, and list the techniques for measuring the accomplishments in…