The program Effective Schooling in Rural Africa was developed by the Basic Education Cluster of the World Bank in response to concerns about poor quality schooling in rural Africa. This report draws on a multi-agency working group meeting held in June 2000 and on subsequent work to outline some key elements of the information base for quality…

The New Jersey Commission on Higher Education releases this report annually on systemwide accountability. The data are collected from the system's 9 state colleges and universities, 3 public research universities, 19 community colleges, and 25 private higher education institutions. The key findings of this year's report include: (1) full-time…

This report describes achievements of the Accelerated School Project, a cooperative effort between two Florida school districts and the Florida A&M University to provide intensive educational services to at risk elementary students. The accelerated school approach focuses on transforming the entire school to produce high academic achievement…

In the fall of 1998, the Education Trust constructed and administered a survey of 1,200 schools that had been identified by the states as their top-scoring or most improved schools with poverty levels over 50%. The 366 elementary and secondary schools that responded to the survey serve student populations that are largely poor in urban and rural…

This report provides the methodology, results, and highlights of a survey developed to assess general education satisfaction of graduates as well as to collect data essential to Nevada's Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC) Performance Indicators. The Graduate Outcomes Survey is an annual questionnaire distributed to all TMCC students…

This summary assessment report evaluates the progress being made by the Virginia's 23 community colleges in two areas: the performance of remedial students and those students who transfer to four-year institutions. In addition, it discusses the performance of recent high school graduates who enroll in remedial courses. Each college submitted a…

This report reviews the evaluation process of the 1995 community college assessment reports for the Virginia Community College System (VCCS). It provides evaluation results, which found that the 18 colleges, even within limited resources and major restructuring, were able to demonstrate satisfactory progress as shown by assessment results and the…

The report includes a review of the State Board of Education's benchmarks during the last 30 years and describes the policy development of seven institutional effectiveness measures. Progress reports from each of the major areas served by Alabama's community, junior and technical colleges are covered, including: occupational, vocational and career…

This dissertation surveys, analyzes and reports the comparison of direct departmental costs associated with the technical core curriculum of emergency medical technology programs at nine public two-year community colleges for the academic years of 1989-90, 1990-91, and 1991-92. Data were collected using The Emergency Medical Training Technology…

National math assessment data from 3,112 eighth-grade students in 123 schools were used to determine whether location (rural versus nonrural) affects student achievement when related student and school-level factors are taken into account. Findings indicate that rural schools outperformed nonrural schools in math achievement and that the…

This report summarizes assessment activities and indicators of institutional effectiveness at Trident Technical College for 1998-99. The college measures institutional effectiveness through Goal Attainment Scaling, a flexible measurement process designed to develop criteria for assessing each program, student service, and academic unit. The…

A March 2000 education summit brought together educators, parents, and community leaders to discuss key issues in the education of American Indian and Alaska Native students who attend school in urban areas. This summary report provides an overview of the main points discussed in a keynote address and four panel discussions. The keynote address by…

This work provides school change leaders with tools, techniques, tips, examples, illustrations, and stories about promoting school change. Tools provided include histograms, surveys, run charts, weighted voting, force-field analysis, decision matrices, and many others. Chapter 1, "Introduction," applies a matrix for asking questions…

Professional development is the cornerstone of school transformation. The first part of this two-part paper describes the professional development experiences of several hundred teachers and administrators in schools implementing New American Schools (NAS) designs and discusses the links between these professional development experiences and key…

This document is one of a series of guides to self-evaluation which builds on the advice given in the publication "How good is our school?" (2002 edition). This guide should be used to evaluate the quality of educational provision for bilingual learners, principally those who are learning English as an additional language (throughout the…