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Mathematica, 2022
A growing body of research demonstrating the benefits of high quality early care and education (ECE) programs for young children, particularly those in families with low incomes, has inspired a strong commitment from both federal and state officials to improve the quality of ECE programs nationwide. Policymakers, administrators, and program and…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Program Costs, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
Inquiry-based science interventions aim to improve students' science proficiency by helping them understand scientific processes. In these interventions, students conduct hands-on investigations of science concepts and everyday phenomena, construct explanations for what they observe, consider alternative explanations, and communicate and justify…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Intervention, Teaching Methods, Inquiry
Bartik, Timothy J.; Hershbein, Brad – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2018
In the past 15 years, four-year-olds' enrollment in state-funded prekindergarten in the United States has more than doubled, with roughly one-third now enrolled. Although researchers have found that early childhood programs from decades ago had sizable benefits for students that lasted into adulthood, evidence from more recent (and less expensive)…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Enrollment Trends, Program Evaluation
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Hollands, Fiona M.; Kieffer, Michael J.; Shand, Robert; Pan, Yilin; Cheng, Henan; Levin, Henry M. – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
We review the value of cost-effectiveness analysis for evaluation and decision making with respect to educational programs and discuss its application to early reading interventions. We describe the conditions for a rigorous cost-effectiveness analysis and illustrate the challenges of applying the method in practice, providing examples of programs…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Early Reading, Reading Programs, Reading Instruction
Online Submission, 2020
Each year, Austin Independent School District Department of Research and Evaluation (DRE) staff develop a plan of work to describe the scope of work for the coming year. The plans that make up this document identify programs to be evaluated and services to be provided by DRE staff and provide the blueprints for evaluation that staff will follow…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Online Submission, 2019
Each year, Austin Independent School District Department of Research and Evaluation (DRE) staff develop a plan of work to describe the scope of work for the coming year. The plans that make up this document identify programs to be evaluated and services to be provided by DRE staff and provide the blueprints for evaluation that staff will follow…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Online Submission, 2017
Each year, Austin Independent School District Department of Research and Evaluation (DRE) staff develop a plan of work to describe the scope of work for the coming year. The plans that make up this document identify programs to be evaluated and services to be provided by DRE staff and provide the blueprints for evaluation that staff will follow…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Online Submission, 2014
Each year, Austin Independent School District Department of Research and Evaluation (DRE) staff develop a plan of work to describe the scope of work for the coming year. The plans that make up this document identify programs to be evaluated and services to be provided by DRE staff and provide the blueprints for evaluation that staff will follow…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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Ross, John A.; Barkaoui, Khaled; Scott, Garth – American Journal of Evaluation, 2007
Cost studies are program evaluations that judge program worth by relating program costs to program benefits. There are three sets of strategies: cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness, and cost-utility analysis, although the last appears infrequently. The authors searched relevant databases to identify 103 cost studies in education and then reduced the…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Improvement, Program Effectiveness, Effect Size
Online Submission, 2013
Each year, Austin Independent School District Department of Research and Evaluation (DRE) staff develop a plan of work to describe the scope of work for the coming year. The plans that make up this document identify programs to be evaluated and services to be provided by DRE staff and provide the blueprints for evaluation that staff will follow…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Online Submission, 2011
Each year, Austin Independent School District Department of Research and Evaluation (DRE) staff develop a plan of work to describe the scope of work for the coming year. The plans that make up this document identify programs to be evaluated and services to be provided by DRE staff and provide the blueprints for evaluation that staff will follow…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Planning, Strategic Planning, Program Evaluation