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Quality in Early Childhood Care and Education Settings: A Compendium of Measures
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Flood, Mirjam; Weinstein, Debra; Halle, Tamara; Martin, Laurie; Tout, Kathryn; Wandner, Laura; Vick, Jessica; Sherman, Juli; Hair, Elizabeth – Child Trends, 2007
Quality measures were originally developed for research aimed at describing the settings that children spend time in and identifying the characteristics of these environments that contribute to children's development. They were also developed to guide improvements in practice. Increasingly, however, measures of quality are being used for further…
Descriptors: Validity, Reliability, Child Care, Educational Quality
Standards for Title VII Evaluations: Accommodation for Reality Constraints.
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Yap, Kim Onn – 1984
Two separate sets of minimum standards designed to guide the evaluation of bilingual projects are proposed. The first set relates to the process in which the evaluation activities are conducted. They include: validity of assessment procedures, validity and reliability of evaluation instruments, representativeness of findings, use of procedures for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
CONTROLLING THE QUALITY OF TRAINING.
SMITH, ROBERT G., JR. – 1965
THE NEED FOR A QUALITY CONTROL SYSTEM IN A MILITARY TRAINING PROGRAM AND THE METHODS OF ESTABLISHING SUCH A UNIT ARE DESCRIBED AND EVALUATED IN THIS REPORT. THE PURPOSE OF QUALITY CONTROL IS TO INSURE A SATISFACTORY STANDARD OF COMPETENCE AMONG THE STUDENTS WHO GRADUATE, TO MAINTAIN THIS QUALITY BY A CONTINUOUS MONITORING PROCESS, AND TO IMPROVE…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Grading, Military Training, Multiple Choice Tests
Moderation and Assessment Project--South West. A Presentation of a Model for Moderating Pupils' Work That Is Teacher Assessed, Developed in England, UK.
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Radnor, Hilary – 1993
The Moderation and Assessment Project, South West, was an outgrowth of the Technical and Vocational Educational Initiative of the government of the United Kingdom that attempted to develop more courses with vocational relevance for adolescents. Growing from research projects under the Moderation and Assessment project, a new model of moderation is…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods
Dilemmas in Quality Assessment
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Patry, Jean-Luc; Gastager, Angela – Quality of Higher Education, 2004
A taxonomy of potential values conflicts in evaluations is presented. Basis is the distinction of types of conflict (aims vs. means conflicts; qualitative vs. quantitative conflicts). Six areas of values are discussed: the ethical, methodical, social and interactive, legal, economic, and personal values. The taxonomy of conflicts between these…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Classification, Values, Conflict
Quality Assessment of University Studies: Attitude of Academic Community
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Valiuskeviciute, Audrone; Druskyte, Ruta; Mikutaviciene, Inga – Quality of Higher Education, 2004
The article presents the research on study quality state at three Lithuanian universities. The research was performed during the spring semester in 2003. Research participants were 669 students, 227 teachers, 126 administration officers and 359 graduates. The outcomes of the research did not aim at revealing the state of study quality in a…
Descriptors: Educational Research, College Students, College Graduates, Administrators