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Yates, Brian T. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2012
The value of a program can be understood as referring not only to outcomes, but also to how those outcomes compare to the types and amounts of resources expended to produce the outcomes. Major potential mistakes and biases in assessing the worth of resources consumed, as well as the value of outcomes produced, are explored. Most of these occur…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Cost Effectiveness, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Problems
Kong, Younghee Jessie – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of the study was to compare the practices used by HRD professionals to evaluate web-based and classroom-based training programs within seven Korean companies. This study used four components of evaluation to examine how HRD professionals evaluated web-based and classroom-based training programs in their organizations and compared the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation, Online Courses, Input Output Analysis
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Larson, Richard C.; Kaplan, Edward H. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1981
Evaluation is discussed as an information-gathering process. Currently popular evaluation programs are reviewed in relation to decision making and various approaches that seem to contribute to the decision utility of evaluation (e.g. classical approaches, Bayesian approaches, adaptive designs, and model-based evaluations) are described. (Author/AL)
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation
Loucks, Susan F.; Hall, Gene E. – 1977
An analysis and review of the activities in the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory Regional Exchange (SEDL/RX) is presented, and the following questions spoken to: 1) How has the SEDL/RX evolved and developed? 2) What are the major activities at the SEDL/RX? 3) How do the Advisory Board members perceive the SEDL/RX and what do they see…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation, Information Networks, Input Output Analysis
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. – 1979
The monitoring process and the role of monitoring in mental health center decision making are discussed in relation to information systems. Monitoring requires an information system based on the center's annual plan for programs and budgets. This system must contain at least minimal data on client movement, services, staff activity, and costs. The…
Descriptors: Case Records, Computer Oriented Programs, Decision Making, Feedback
Cooley, William W. – 1971
This evaluative research is concerned with specific educational programs which attempt to adapt instruction to individual differences. Attention is limited to the Frick School, a large urban Pittsburgh school in which the Learning Research and Development Center develops its new educational programs, and to the Follow-Through network where these…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Research, Criterion Referenced Tests, Curriculum Development