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Managing Evaluation for Program Improvement at the Wilder Foundation
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Mattessich, Paul W.; Mueller, Daniel P.; Holm-Hansen, Cheryl A. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2009
The authors tell about their heterogeneous 91 person research and evaluation unit at an operating foundation in St. Paul, Minnesota. They focus on evaluation for program improvement, one of several purposes of studies they work on. The three authors write from their different manager positions within the unit. Included are the context of the…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Improvement, Program Effectiveness, Research Administration
An Assessment of the Ways Local Grant Programs Perceive, Implement, and Utilize Program Evaluation: Local Project Evaluation Through the Looking Glass or Project Directors in Wonderland.
Hipps, Jerome A.; Friedman, Sanford I. – 1980
Directors of 39 projects funded by the federal Consumers' Education Program were interviewed about their attitudes toward federally mandated evaluation. The projects were varied, and included activities such as consumer workshops; development of curriculum, materials or policy; inservice training; consumer advocacy/counseling; and television…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Community Programs, Consumer Education, Elementary Secondary Education
An Exemplary Career Education Program in the Great Falls Public Schools (K-14). First Interim Report.
Great Falls Public Schools, MT. – 1977
Evaluation was made of the first year of a project to expand and improve existing career education program components in Great Falls (Montana) public schools using Experience Based Career Education (EBCE). Six major goals in developing procedures leading to full implementation of EBCE strategies addressed were data based implementation,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Business, Career Development, Career Education