This article discusses how to make process use an independent variable in evaluation practice: the purposeful means of building an organization's capacity to conduct and use evaluations in the long run. The goal of evaluation capacity building (ECB) is to strengthen and sustain effective program evaluation practices through a number of activities:…

No Child Left Behind (NCLB), with its emphasis on standards-based accountability, has put educators under considerable pressure to improve student academic outcomes. Much of the funding for after-school programs comes from education budgets and is administered by state and local education agencies. Consequently, after-school programs are often…

Successfully navigating early adolescence depends, in large part, on the availability of safe and engaging activities and supportive relationships with adults, yet many preteens have limited access to positive supports and opportunities such as high-quality after-school programs that could put them on a path to success. Funders, policymakers and…

Coalitions have key roles in helping their communities accomplish the following: (1) Track the level of literacy in the community; (2) Use that information to help identify what, and how much, literacy assistance is needed; (3) Assess the extent to which community literacy programs are meeting the need, including how well existing literacy…

Since its initiation in 2003, the College Student Western China Program has had several satisfying achievements. At the same time, however, problems exist in the project. This article gives a brief analysis of problems encountered in the project from the aspects of publicity and campaign work, plans and schedules, student participation, voluntary…

The Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) of 2009 gave states additional resources and tools aimed at improving participation in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). In 2007, five million uninsured children were eligible for Medicaid or CHIP, constituting 64 percent of all uninsured children.…

The purpose of this study was to develop a model for evaluating a professional development school program to enact an evidence-based model for a continuous cycle of program improvement. Guided by the logic model for program evaluation, we developed three survey instruments based on the professional development school standards of the National…

Based on the belief that UHF improvement is both possible and necessary, public television and commercial UHF broadcasters are getting together to work on it. (Author)

The special projects for improvement in nurse training listed here were funded by the Division of Nursing for the period June 1965 to June 1978. The list is arranged alphabetically by state, city, institution, and project. Each entry includes the following: grant code number, project period, institution name and address, project title, project…

This review of a research institute's evaluation of the national Follow Through program asserts that both the contracting office and the research institute failed to adequately specify the kind of study intended and the functions which it proposed to serve. One of several kinds of evaluation studies might have been undertaken: (1) a research…

A panel was formed for the purpose of evaluating those attributes of instructional film and instructional television programs which affect learning behavior. This is the fourth of a series of general, special, and varied reports of a project whose aim is to examine the "Conditions, Requirements, and Variables Affecting the Quality of Complex…

This document reports on the activities of educational consultants involved in the appraisal of the Evaluator Development Program. Included are (1) consultant suggestions for program improvement, (2) a tabulation of consultant responses to task items on the consultant form, (3) a list of consultants, and (4) materials used during the evaluation…