This paper reports on Oregon's Database Initiative Project (DIP). In response to inconsistent financial reports and a lack of automation, a project team was assembled by Oregon's Department of Education in 1997 with the goal of providing detailed school-level data for the 1997-98 school year in 16 Oregonian school districts. Among the project's…

This handbook advocates a new approach to teacher evaluation as a cooperative effort undertaken by a group of professionals. Part 1 describes the need for changed teacher evaluation, and part 2 outlines ways to use multiple data sources, including student and parent reports, peer review of materials, student achievement results, teacher tests,…

This handbook is a basic "how-to" guide to help one's Parent Training and Information Center (PTI) or Community Parent Resource Center (CPRC) evaluate its programs. Evaluation may seem overwhelming, but a center already performs some steps of the evaluation process for the reports required by the Technical Assistance ALLIANCE for Parent Centers…

Educational Technology/Information Literacy should be considered the "fourth R" in today's educational system. After reading, writing, and arithmetic, the use of information technology is the 'reality' that faces students upon graduation and is often a barrier to entering the workforce. Only after schools begin to build high quality Educational…

The passage of the Children First Act in 1988 ushered in a new era of data collection, analysis, and reporting about the overall quality and condition of education in Louisiana. Implemented in 1990, this major piece of legislation resulted in the publication of the Progress Profiles (School Report Cards, District Composite Report, and the…

The West Virginia Higher Education Facilities Information System was formed as a method for instituting statewide standardization of space use and classification; to serve as a vehicle for statewide data acquisition; and to provide statistical data that contributes to detailed institutional planning analysis. The result thus far is the production…

This report describes research that Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (MPR) has conducted for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), to develop methods to track the use of "competitive foods" in schools over time. Competitive foods are foods from a la carte cafeteria sales, vending machines, school stores,…

This manual introduces and describes how to implement the School-PASS (School Practices for All Students' Success) Survey and planning process that allows schools to assess and improve their current services to meet the academic and social needs of new and diverse students. The manual describes a five-stage planning process and provides …

Presents the characteristics of 199 studies included in the most recent volume of dissertation abstracts with tables: categorizing the studies by type; summarizing the use of different independent variables, and design considerations; tabulating the types of measures mentioned; and presenting data analysis techniques and sampling plans. (Author/JM)

Article presented additional resources on students in two-year colleges, supplied by the ERIC Clearinghouse for Junior Colleges. (Editor/RK)

Considered the merit in student evaluation of teacher performance in the classroom as well as the reaction of faculty to being judged by their students. (RK)

Authors proposed to examine the effects of a creative reading program, Reading 360 (Clymer, et al, 1969), designed to develop creative reading skills. (Author/RK)

The Illinois Three Phase System for Statewide Evaluation of Occupational Education Programs will be operationally dependent on the Management Information System (MIS). The efficiency of the evaluation system will be greatly enhanced by the availability in the MIS. (Author/KP)

National data point up the discouraging plight of many community college students when they attempt to transfer into senior colleges and point to better means of articulation for them. (Editor)

Article presents a wealth of educational statistics affording a firm baseline for comparision between NCA and non-NCA schools. (Author/RK)