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Peer reviewedSebring, Penny A.; Boruch, Robert F. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1983
The utility of the federally funded National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is often unclear, and critics have claimed that NAEP is not used. This paper summarizes an exploratory study of evidence against these claims, including that data are most useful to audiences with a national perspective. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Utilization, Information Utilization
Francis, J. Bruce; And Others – 1978
An evaluation was undertaken of a National Teaching Improvement Project that was designed to encourage the general improvement of undergraduate teaching. The evaluation also sought to determine the effectiveness of mass distribution as a dissemination device to improve college teaching. During the first two years of the three-year project, four…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Criteria
Download full textSmith, M. Cecil; Sheehan-Holt, Janet K. – 2000
A study focused on researchers' use of the English-Language Background Questionnaire (EBQ) portion of the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS), the results of which were released in 1993. Data were gathered by surveying NALS data users about how they have used the EBQ data, their perspectives on the strengths and weaknesses of the EBQ, and their…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Citizen Participation, Content Analysis
