Infusing five processes into assignments can help students hone the skills they'll need to address complex problems. The world students will enter is full of complex, unpredictable problems--and students will need sophisticated thinking skills to cope. The authors unpack five thinking processes students need to internalize through opportunities in…

Responsive evaluation honors democratic and participatory values and intends to foster dialogues among stakeholders to include their voices and enhance mutual understandings. The question explored in this article is whether and how responsive evaluation can offer a platform for moral learning ("Bildung") in the interference zone between…

Evaluation studies can provide feedback on implementation, support continuous improvement, and increase understanding of evaluation systems' impact on teaching and learning. Despite the importance of educator evaluation studies, states often need support to prioritize and fund them. Successful studies require expertise, time, and a shared…

The question: What is an IMC (instructional materials center)?" is explored and guidelines for evaluating the operation of an IMC are given. (NH)

The correct strategy for any contemplated requirements study is precisely whatever management needs at the time to make a good intuitive choice among alternate courses of action--no more and no less. (19 references) (Author)

Argues that in a planning, programing, budgeting system (PPBS), planning and programing must come first and jointly. As a result of this mix, the author contends, a new form of budgeting develops that unifies goals, programs, and costs, showing both interrelationships and cross-effects. Describes a school district's application of this form of…

The organization, programing procedures, disadvantages and advantages of Operational Educational Planning (OEP) are discussed. (NQ)

This document first outlines considerations relative to a systems approach to evaluation, and then argues for such an approach to the evaluation of information retrieval systems (ISR). The criterion of such evaluations should be the utility of the information retrieved to the user, and the ISR ought to be regarded as one of three interrelated…

The purpose of the seminar was to find some answers to, and a deeper understanding of the following questions. (1) What is the purpose or are the purposes of higher education? (2) What are the benefits of higher education to the individual and to society? (3) Can the outputs of higher education be named and measured? (4) Where is higher education…

The purpose of this project/study was to review the evaluation system presently being used to assess the effectiveness of Peace Corps training activities in Brazil and to modify rating instruments and scales in order to obtain more accurate measurement. This volume, the second of two reports resulting from the project, describes the procedures and…

This article attempted to define the systems approach and discussed how it might be applied in education. (Author/RK)

To examine selected manpower programs in the Los Angeles area, the Rand Corporation devised theoretical and empirical methods of analysis. The four different types of empirical studies which were made were a survey of employers, former youth-project enrollees, interaction between staff and enrollees, and a cost analysis of manpower projects. The…