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Shannon, Lisa M.; Walker, Robert; Blevins, Michele – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2009
This paper presents information on re-developing an outcome evaluation for a state-funded program providing service coordination utilizing wraparound to youth with severe emotional disturbance (SED) and their families. Originally funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Kentucky IMPACT program has existed statewide since 1990. Changing…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Severe Disabilities
Williams, Jeffrey M.; Landry, Susan H.; Anthony, Jason L.; Swank, Paul R. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2009
The primary study objective was to develop a statewide system that made use of information about the pre-kindergarten program in combination with kindergarten reading and social outcome measures in order to inform parents about the ability of early childhood programs to prepare children for formal schooling. In order to carry out this objective,…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Web Sites, Certification, Program Evaluation
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Buchmiller, Archie A. – 1973
A summary of legislation concerning educational accountability reveals that 13 States hope to find greater accountability in testing or assessment programs, 7 in planning, programming, budgeting systems, 4 in uniform accounting system, 8 in the evaluation of professional employees, 2 in management information systems, and 1 in performance…
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Tests, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Methods
Shafer, Michael S.; Lewellen, Denver – 1999
This paper describes the use of both quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate a project designed to define a state system of care for meeting the needs of people with concurrent disorders of mental illness and substance abuse. The evaluation was intended to develop a feedback system to provide program implementers with information about…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Evaluation Methods, Feedback, Mental Disorders
Packard, Richard D.; Dereshiwsky, Mary I. – 1988
In 1984, Arizona governmental officials began studying a social problem plaguing both the state and country for many years: "Does a teacher incentive program enhance the profession and student achievement?" Research and evaluation has been underway for over 3 years and is focusing on the parameters of a model which will be reported to policy…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Ladders, Elementary Secondary Education, Prediction
Epler, Charles A. – 1972
As part of Tennessee's educational needs assessment strategy, a study was conducted to determine parental perceptions of educational needs. In 1971, 3,150 copies of two forms (randomly distributed) of the School Assessment Questionnaire for Parents were distributed to the parents in six target school systems. Data were analyzed using the Sigma-9…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Parent Attitudes, Program Evaluation, Public Education
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Wisler, Carl, Ed. – New Directions for Evaluation, 1996
The extent to which evaluation and auditing have converged on procedures in recent years and the extent to which they remain different are examined in the five chapters of this special issue. Different emphases, the question of collaboration with the subjects of inquiry, and issues of routinized performance are explored. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cooperation, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research, Evaluation Utilization
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Gueron, Judith M. – New Directions for Evaluation, 1997
Rigorous evaluations of welfare-to-work programs have had a major impact on the formation of policy in the area of welfare reform, but it is not clear whether the high level of evaluation, especially with regard to randomized experiments, and impact can continue. Evaluators must strive for research methodologies that provide results for policy…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Policy Formation, Program Evaluation, Public Policy
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Hill, Richard; And Others – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1977
This review of a previous article (TM 503 836), concludes that: (1) the evaluation methodology was straightforward; (2) simpler data analysis would have yielded the same conclusions; and (3) exclusion of many experimental schools from data analysis and use of post hoc matching and covariance produced misleading results. (CP)
Descriptors: Bias, Data Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Primary Education
Hawkins, Evelyn K.; And Others – 1996
The Evaluation of Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) systems was designed to provide the U.S. Department of Labor information on how states are designing, implementing, and operating their worker profiling and reemployment services systems for dislocated workers and to compare the effectiveness of different state approaches to…
Descriptors: Adults, Dislocated Workers, Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods
Holdzkom, David; And Others – 1989
Educators in North Carolina, recognizing a need to develop a more objective, performance-based teacher evaluation system, determined that evaluation of teachers should have both formative and summative outcomes and should focus on improvement of teacher skills. The Teacher Performance Appraisal System (TPAS), a companion to the North Carolina…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Research, Evaluators, Longitudinal Studies
Norton, Daniel P.; Watley, Donivan J. – 1972
The Illinois Three Phase System should be temporarily retained as an administrative tool to be used in relationships between the Division of Vocational and Technical Education and local education agencies. But it is clear that such a system, with its scope directed toward local school districts, with its lack of outcome assessment, and with its…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Followup Studies, Performance Tests, Program Evaluation
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Baker, Eva L. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1977
It is difficult to base evaluations on concepts irrelevant to state policy making. Evaluation of a multiproject program requires both time and differentiation of method. Data from the California Early Childhood Program illustrate process variables for program component analysis, and research questions for intraprogram comparison. (CP)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
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St. John, Edward P. – Research in Higher Education, 1999
A study piloted a new approach to assessing the effects of changes in funding for state grant programs on college assistance. Analysis of Washington's state grant program indicates that an increase in state funds for need-based grants in 1993-1994 resulted in improved within-year persistence in public four-year universities. It is concluded that…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Grants, Higher Education, Program Effectiveness
Kearns, Donna – 1990
This guide is designed to assist Missouri school district personnel in conducting follow-up studies of special education graduates. The guide outlines the questions that need to be addressed prior to conducting a follow-up study as well as the procedures to complete such a project. Sample follow-up questionnaires are included for districts to…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Graduate Surveys, Guidelines, High School Graduates
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