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Clements, Naomi; Davies, Sara; Mountford-Zimdars, Anna – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2022
Professionalising outreach and evaluation work would enhance the quality and rigour of provision, benefit widening participation students and achieve regulatory requirements (Bowes et al. [2019]. "The National Collaborative Outreach Programme End of Phase 1 report for the national formative and impact evaluations." Office for Students;…
Descriptors: Professionalism, Outreach Programs, Program Evaluation, Social Justice
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Ferrara, Donna L. – Educational Planning, 2022
This article explores issues that had to be confronted over a three-year period in terms of two New York State funded grants for which I was the evaluator. Major, critical challenges are presented, described, and discussed. Specifically, the paper addresses issues related to lack of planning at the grant design stage that resulted in challenges…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Evaluators, Grants, Expertise
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Matthew A. Kraft; Alvin Christian – American Educational Research Journal, 2022
A core motivation for the widespread teacher evaluation reforms of the past decade was the belief that these new systems would promote teacher development through high-quality feedback. We examine this theory by studying teachers' perceptions of evaluation feedback in Boston Public Schools and evaluating the district's efforts to improve feedback…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Educational Change, Public Schools
Matthew A. Kraft; Alvin Christian – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
A core motivation for the widespread teacher evaluation reforms of the last decade was the belief that these new systems would promote teacher development through high-quality feedback. We examine this theory by studying teachers' perceptions of evaluation feedback in Boston Public Schools and evaluating the district's efforts to improve feedback…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Educational Change, Public Schools
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Grantee Submission, 2019
The foster youth education program strives to increase graduation rates by improving academic performance and encouraging student retention through an innovative collaboration between tutors, social workers, and schools to provide individualized support. The pilot program was funded by U.S. Department of Education Innovation Funds, which evolving…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Graduation Rate, Academic Persistence, Program Evaluation
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Sturges, Keith M. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2015
Drawing on a qualitative study of an educational reform and its external evaluation, I describe how a well-intentioned but poorly conceptualized evaluation helped perpetuate asymmetries in the generation and use of evaluation findings. This article explores this project's failure to clarify evaluator roles, identify intended users and expected…
Descriptors: Evaluation Utilization, Stakeholders, Role, Evaluators
West Virginia Department of Education, 2017
The State Systemic Improvement Plan (SSIP), WV GRADUATION 20/20, was implemented during the 2015-2016 academic year beginning with sixty-nine (69) schools in thirty-six (36) counties representing fifty-nine (59) percent of West Virginia's high schools. During the 2016-2017 academic year the number of high schools has grown to seventy-two (72) and…
Descriptors: Statewide Planning, Strategic Planning, Educational Improvement, Educational Change
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Baird, Matthew D.; Pane, John F. – Educational Researcher, 2019
Evaluators report effects of education initiatives as standardized effect sizes, a scale that has merits but obscures interpretation of the effects' practical importance. Consequently, educators and policymakers seek more readily interpretable translations of evaluation results. One popular metric is the number of years of learning necessary to…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Program Evaluation, Educational Policy, Evaluators
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Orsini, Muhsin Michael; Wyrick, David L.; Milroy, Jeffrey J. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012
Blending high-quality and rigorous research with pure evaluation practice can often be best accomplished through thoughtful collaboration. The evaluation of a high school drug prevention program (All Stars Senior) is an example of how perceived competing purposes and methodologies can coexist to investigate formative and summative outcome…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Program Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Prevention
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Chong, Jenny; Hassin, Jeanette; Young, Robert S.; Joe, Jennie R. – Evaluation Review, 2011
Two case studies are presented to compare and contrast the challenges encountered when attempting to conduct participatory evaluations (P-Es) with tribal programs that represented two extremes of collaboration between the programs and evaluators. In one case, the P-E was successful because the principals were invested in the program, whereas in…
Descriptors: American Indians, Substance Abuse, American Indian Reservations, Federal Programs
Wingate, Lori; Smith, Corey; Westine, Carl; Gullickson, Arlen – Evaluation Resource Center for Advanced Technological Education, 2012
This fact sheet summarizes data gathered in the 2012 survey of National Science Foundation (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) grant recipients. Conducted by EvaluATE, the evaluation resource center for the ATE program located at The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University, this was the thirteenth annual survey of ATE projects…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Grants, Surveys, Research Projects
Wingate, Lori; Westine, Carl; Gullickson, Arlen – Evaluation Resource Center for Advanced Technological Education, 2011
This fact sheet summarizes data gathered in the 2011 survey of National Science Foundation (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) grant recipients. Conducted by EvaluATE, the evaluation resource center for the ATE program located at The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University, this was the twelfth annual survey of ATE projects and…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Grants, Surveys, Research Projects
Wingate, Lori; Westine, Carl; Gullickson, Arlen – Evaluation Resource Center for Advanced Technological Education, 2010
This fact sheet summarizes data gathered in the 2010 survey of National Science Foundation (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) grant recipients. Conducted by EvaluATE, the evaluation resource center for the ATE program located at The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University, this was the eleventh annual survey of ATE projects and…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Grants, Surveys, Research Projects
Wingate, Lori; Gullickson, Arlen – Evaluation Resource Center for Advanced Technological Education, 2009
This fact sheet summarizes data gathered in the 2009 survey of National Science Foundation (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) grant recipients. Conducted by The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University, this was the tenth annual survey of ATE projects and centers. Included here are statistics about the program's grantees and…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Grants, Surveys, Research Projects
Sprague, Kim; Hamilton, Jennifer; Coffey, Deb; Loadman, William; Faddis, Bonnie – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2009
Rigorous research provides information that will allow other schools and districts to select interventions that have a scientifically based track record of effectiveness. All Striving Reader grants include the mandate to evaluate literacy intervention(s) targeted to adolescents who are reading significantly below grade level. Although all studies…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Evaluators, Program Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods
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