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Friedman, Daniel B. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2012
"The First-Year Seminar: Designing, Implementing, and Assessing Courses to Support Student Learning and Success," a five-volume series, is designed to assist educators who are interested in launching a first-year seminar or revamping an existing program. Each volume examines a different aspect of first-year seminar design or…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Instructional Design, Instructional Development, Curriculum Implementation
Chavez, Oscar; Papick, Ira; Ross, Dan J.; Grouws, Douglas A. – Online Submission, 2010
The purpose of this paper was to describe the process of development of assessment instruments for the Comparing Options in Secondary Mathematics: Investigating Curriculum (COSMIC) project. The COSMIC project was a three-year longitudinal comparative study focusing on evaluating high school students' mathematics learning from two distinct…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Achievement, Interrater Reliability, Scoring Rubrics
Johanson, George A.; Doston, Glenn – 1994
Analyses of questionnaire data from a program evaluation indicate that the two dichotomous items "Would you recommend this to a friend?" and "Would you choose to do this again?" are not as interchangeable as might be expected from the survey literature. As part of the evaluation of a university program, a survey of graduates…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Data Analysis, Graduate Surveys, Higher Education
Burstein, Leigh; Miller, M. David – 1981
Instructional and program relevance of measures of student performance and use of standardized achievement tests, as measures of the quality of a student's educational experiences, are discussed. This focus is consonant with current emphasis on linking testing and instruction and on systemic efforts at program and instructional improvement.…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Data Analysis, Elementary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
Jolly, S. Jean – 1983
A procedure was developed to combine subsets of curriculum-relevant items from a norm-referenced achievement test (NRT) with items comprising a locally-developed supplementary test in order to produce objective-referenced test (ORT) data for program evaluation. The study was designed to determine whether the ORTs were valid instruments for program…
Descriptors: Administrators, Criterion Referenced Tests, Data Analysis, Evaluation Methods
Smith, Christopher A.; And Others – 1987
Based on two manuals developed by Goodwill as part of their staff training series on program review, this program evaluation manual is designed to help facility administrators implement and improve their service delivery. The book contains an introduction and nine chapters. The introduction defines program evaluation, provides a rationale and uses…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Delivery Systems, Evaluation Methods
Gressard, Clarice P.; Loyd, Brenda H. – 1985
The effectiveness of multiple matrix sampling was examined in a study of 495 students' attitudes toward a computer education program. A post hoc analysis of variance was used, with the class as the unit of analysis. The Computer Attitude Scale, a 30-item rating scale, was used to measure attitudes toward learning about and working with computers.…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Attitude Measures, Class Size, Classroom Research