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Moving the Needle on Program Quality: An Examination of the Organizational Characteristics That Drive Improvement in Expanded Learning Programs
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McCormick, Silvana – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Program evaluation can play a critical role in supporting high quality implementation of social programs to help them achieve their goal of social impact. Evaluation scholars have developed a wide range of strategies to help build programs' internal evaluation capacity in an effort to support meaningful use of evaluation. However, the evaluation…
Descriptors: Program Improvement, Institutional Characteristics, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Utilization
The Effect of Participating in Indiana's Twenty-First Century Scholars Program on College Enrollments
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Toutkoushian, Robert K.; Hossler, Don; DesJardins, Stephen L.; McCall, Brian; Gonzalez Canche, Manuel S. – Review of Higher Education, 2015
Our study adds to prior work on Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars(TFCS) program by focusing on whether participating in--rather than completing--the program affects the likelihood of students going to college and where they initially enrolled. We first employ binary and multinomial logistic regression to obtain estimates of the impact of the…
Descriptors: Student Participation, College Bound Students, Enrollment Influences, Regression (Statistics)
School Information: Phase III of Quality Assessment Program. Appendix B.
Burson, William W. – 1972
This questionnaire is used in the Educational Quality Assessment Program in the State of Pennsylvania. Designed to be filled out by school administrators, it requests information about staff size, enrollment size, library books available, hours of paraprofessionals, quality of housing in school district, number of guidance personnel, and holding…
Descriptors: Administrators, Educational Environment, Educational Quality, Evaluation Methods
Pennsylvania Department of Education Quality Assessment Teacher Questionnaire. Appendix A.
Burson, William W. – 1972
This questionnaire is used in the Educational Quality Assessment Program in the state of Pennsylvania. It includes checklists for the following kinds of information concerning teachers: locale, stability, college, mother's education, father's occupation, attitudes relating to professional recognition, career interests, salary, length of service,…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Evaluation Methods, Predictor Variables, Program Evaluation
School Information: Phase III of Quality Assessment Program. Appendix B.
Burson, William W. – 1972
This questionnaire, used in the Educational Quality Assessment Program in Pennsylvania, was designed to be filled out by school administrators. It requests information about staff size, enrollment size, library books available, hours of paraprofessionals, and quality of housing in school district. It also includes a checklist to show the extent of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Educational Environment, Educational Quality, Elementary Schools
Pennsylvania Department of Education Quality Assessment Teacher Questionnaire. Appendix A.
Burson, William W. – 1972
This questionnaire is used in the Educational Quality Assessment Program in the State of Pennsylvania. It includes checklists for the following kinds of information from teachers: locale, stability, college, mother's education, father's occupation, attitudes relating to professional recognition, career interests, salary, length of service, and…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Evaluation Methods, Predictor Variables, Program Evaluation
A Predictive Model of Retention Rate at Regional Two-Year Colleges.
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Wyman, Frank J. – Community College Review, 1997
Analyzes first-year retention rates for the 16 colleges of the South Carolina Technical College System, focusing on first-time freshmen enrolling full-time during the fall 1990 and 1991 semesters. Reveals that regional employment and the ratio of instructional and support expenditures per student to regional income per job are the most predictive…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Community Colleges, Expenditure per Student
Manual for Interpreting Secondary School Reports: 1972-73.
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Burson, William W. – 1972
A manual for assessing the effectiveness of a secondary school, taking differences in the school's resources into account, is presented. The Pennsylvania State Board of Education established the Bureau of Educational Quality Assessment which developed a measurement package in Phase I. Field tests were conducted on grade 11 students in 1968 in 100…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Objectives, Educational Quality, Evaluation Methods
Developmental Studies for Occupational Students: Post-Secondary Programs.
State Univ. of New York, Ithaca. Coll. of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell Univ. – 1977
Based on information gathered from a statewide survey and a study of six college programs, this series of monographs presents findings and suggested applications for postsecondary development programs for occupational education students. The first of nine monographs contains an overview of research results. The results are based on an examination…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Guides, Admission Criteria, Affective Behavior