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A Means for Updating and Validating Mathematics Programs
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Dunlap, Laurie A. – MathAMATYC Educator, 2012
This article describes how to design program assessment for mathematics departments, in two-year and four-year colleges across the Midwest, based on a set of components that was generated from a Delphi survey. An example is provided to illustrate how this was done at a small four-year college. There is an alignment between these components and a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Program Evaluation, Program Design, Research Design
Educational Validity: Procedures to Evaluate Outcomes in Programs for Severely Handicapped Learners.
Voeltz, Luanna; Evans, Ian M. – Journal of the Association for the Severely Handicapped (JASH), 1983
Issues pertaining to the documentation of positive outcomes for severely handicapped learners as a function of their educational programs are addressed, and the value of the general evaluative concept of educational validity is emphasized. Issues related to the current overreliance on the single-subject experimental model are also discussed. (SEW)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Intervention, Outcomes of Education, Program Effectiveness
Statistical Conclusion Validity in Ex Post Facto Designs: Practicality in Evaluation.
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Lee, Barbara – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1985
ifferent evaluation models were applied to data from a high school career education program to investigate problems in statistical conclusion validity and program effectiveness judgments. If potential threats to internal validity are analyzed and protection strategies are developed, more confidence in unplanned ex post facto design using a…
Descriptors: Career Education, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, High Schools
Shaping Policies Related to Developmental Education: An Evaluation Using the Regression-Discontinuity Design
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Moss, Brian G.; Yeaton, William H. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2006
Utilizing the regression-discontinuity research design, this article explores the effectiveness of a developmental English program in a large, multicampus community college. Routinely collected data were extracted from existing records of a cohort of first-time college students followed for approximately 6 years (N = 1,473). Results are consistent…
Descriptors: Research Design, Program Evaluation, Developmental Studies Programs, Policy Formation
Developing Models for Special Education: Using a Multiple Time-Series/ Multiple Baseline Design in the ESEA IV-C Project.
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Bergquist, Constance C.; Graham, Darol L. – Evaluation Review, 1980
The Developing Models for Special Education project utilized a novel evaluation design to produce data for national validation. The results of the evaluation are presented, and the problems and benefits associated with both the theoretical model and the further use of this design are discussed. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Evaluation Methods, Learning Disabilities, Mastery Learning
Educational Accomplishment Audit: Past, Present, and Future. Proceedings of A National Symposium on Perspectives on Educational Accomplishment Auditing.
Cook, Desmond L., Ed.; Stoycheff, Peter A., Ed. – 1973
The papers comprising these proceedings discuss the nature and purpose of the Independent Educational Accomplishment Audit (IEAA), a concept born in the late 1960's to establish accountability for mandatory technical assistance programs funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act: (1) origins and rationale of the Independent Educational…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Issues Raised by the Follow Through Evaluation.
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House, Ernest R.; Hutchins, Elizabeth J. – 1977
This paper presents a discussion of issues raised in the evaluation of Project Follow Through reported by Abt Associates. The paper suggests that many of the problems inherent in the design of both the program and the evaluation stem from the underlying assumption that one educational model could be found which would best alleviate the educational…
Descriptors: Accountability, Demonstration Programs, Early Childhood Education, Educational Assessment
Study Plan for the National Assessment of Vocational Education.
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Department of Education, Washington, DC. Office of Planning, Budget, and Evaluation. – 1986
The Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984 mandates that the U.S. Department of Education conduct a National Assessment of Vocational Education. The National Assessment, designed following staff research and the input of experts who met in Washington, D.C. in September 1986, will focus on five broad areas: implementation of the Perkins…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Educational Assessment, Educational Planning, Educational Policy