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Evaluating Principal-Preparation Programs Based on Placement Rates: Problems and Prospects for Policymakers
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Fuller, Edward J.; Hollingworth, Liz – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2016
Recent calls to hold preparation programs accountable for outcomes have led states to develop and adopt preparation program accountability systems. A primary feature of these systems is a focus on outcomes such as placement rates, retention rates, and graduates' effectiveness in improving K-12 student achievement. Yet, little research has examined…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Education, Job Placement, Program Evaluation
Program Quality in Leadership Preparation Programs: An Assessment Tool
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Campanotta, Linda; Simpson, Patricia; Newton, Jodi – Education, 2018
The leadership of school principals is widely considered to have a strong influence on the quality of teaching and learning in schools. University-based leadership preparation programs have the responsibility for preparing candidates to serve as school principals and in other leadership capacities. This qualitative study of educational leadership…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Program Effectiveness, Educational Quality, Program Evaluation
Evaluation of Speech Communication Trends
Meredith, Gerald M – Percept Mot Skills, 1970
Descriptors: College Programs, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Problems, Feedback
Towson Educational Research Training Program. Final Report.
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Hallam, Kenneth J. – 1967
The 1966-67 Towson Undergraduate Research Training Program consisted of: (1) three 4-credit hour courses in the basic concepts of measurement, experimental design, and data analysis; (2) a 4-credit hour course in the research literature of education; (3) a 6-credit hour research practicum in the summer session; and (4) a colloquium series,…
Descriptors: College Programs, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Research
Quality Control/Assurance in Post Secondary Education: An Outcomes Approach. AIR 1988 Annual Forum Paper.
Birch, Derek W.; Johnson, F. Craig – 1988
A study was conducted using quality control and quality assurance models to examine student outcomes. The purpose was to investigate current quality control and quality assurance practices in six colleges, to evaluate the relationship between quantitative effectiveness measures and qualitative outcomes measure and to assess the readiness of each…
Descriptors: College Programs, Course Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy
Research on Program Quality.
Blackburn, Robert T.; Conrad, Clifton F. – 1982
Program evaluation research, including reputational studies and studies based on objective indicators, and research on the quantitative correlates of program quality are reviewed. Reputational studies, which have dominated research on program quality in higher education, emphasize peer evaluation. Some major reputational studies of graduate…
Descriptors: College Programs, Educational Quality, Evaluation Criteria, Graduate Study
Evaluating Programs in Higher Education: A Conceptual Process.
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Slimmer, Virginia M. – Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 1983
A model for evaluation of ongoing college programs is presented that integrates six instruments for assessing constituent groups' satisfactions or dissatisfactions: a current student satisfaction survey, graduate survey, administrators' perception survey, transfer reason survey, questionnaire on the program's strengths and weaknesses and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Programs, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making