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Desimone, Laura M.; Hill, Kirsten Lee – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2017
We use data from a randomized controlled trial of a middle school science intervention to explore the causal mechanisms by which the intervention produced previously documented gains in student achievement. Our study finds that implementation fidelity, operationalized as a measure of the frequency of implementation of the cognitive science…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Middle School Students, Secondary School Science, Science Instruction
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Gallini, Joan K.; Bell, Margaret E. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1983
The use of structural equation modelling in curriculum evaluation is discussed in two stages: first, a process model for curriculum evaluation from instructional theory is derived; second, the structural equation model derived from the process analysis and its applications to curriculum evaluation are described. (BW)
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation, Models
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Caulley, Darrel N.; Dowdy, Irene – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1986
This study consists of two parts: (1) a discussion of legal education, which uses the Socratic method of pedagogy and the study of case histories, and (2) an examination of aspects of legal education that might be used as a model for educating evaluators. (Author/JAZ)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Evaluators
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Fairweather, James S.; Rhoads, Robert A. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1995
Information from the 1987-1988 National Survey of Postsecondary Faculty are used to produce a model of teaching and the faculty role that examines two teaching-related outcomes: (1) percentage of time spent on teaching and instruction and (2) preferred amount of teaching. Policy implications are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, Higher Education