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Download full textCorak, Kathleen A.; Wharton, Donald P. – 1992
This paper illustrates how planning, with the aid (or complicity) of institutional research, can be a revolutionary activity that facilitates change within an organization and brings the organization to a more accurate understanding of itself. It describes the use of strategic planning at Minot State University (North Dakota) to change a culture…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Agents, College Administration, Cultural Context
Gideonse, Hendrik D. – 1992
By 1978, those associated with the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) knew that serious internal and external problems existed. This paper describes the redesign of NCATE and is presented as a case study of political, organizational, and professional complexity. Data were gathered from four sources: (1) published…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Accrediting Agencies, Case Studies, Change Strategies
Utah State Office of Education, Salt Lake City. – 1994
The purpose of this report is to evaluate the Edith Bowen Laboratory School (EBLS) at Utah State University. EBLS contributes to Utah State University by assisting in the training of preservice teachers, provides a quality education for elementary school students; and incorporates the interests of three local school districts. In 1989, a master…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education, Higher Education
Van House, Nancy A.; Childers, Thomas A. – 1993
The purpose of the Public Library Effectiveness Study was to define effectiveness for the public library institution. The research was designed not to measure effectiveness or evaluate particular libraries or groups of libraries, but rather to identify the feature or features of a public library that most directly attest to its effectiveness. The…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research
Schenectady County Community Coll., Schenectady, NY. – 1993
This report is the self-study of the Associate in Occupational Studies (AOS) in Culinary Arts program offered by the Hotel, Culinary Arts, and Tourism Department at Schenectady County Community College (New York). The self-study was conducted to support the department's application for initial accreditation of the Culinary Arts program with the…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Associate Degrees, College Programs, Cooking Instruction
Peterson, Marvin W.; And Others – 1991
This self-assessment manual is intended to help institutions examine their academic management process to assess how they create and foster a climate that promotes undergraduate teaching and learning. It contains three instruments for self-administration. The "Institutional Case Study Guide" helps users analyze their institution's educational…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, College Instruction, Educational Administration
Chestnut, Erma Ruth – 1982
In 1981-82, a community needs assessment study was conducted to assist Schenectady County Community College (SCCC) in improving programs, meeting educational needs, evaluating promotional efforts, facilitating attendance, providing information to the community, evaluating program quality, and planning programs. A survey, sent to 1,173 SCCC…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Community Attitudes, Community Colleges, Community Needs
Belsches-Simmons, Grace – 1983
The Education Commission for the States' model state legislation for approval of postsecondary institutions and authorization to grant degrees is discussed with regard to three Supreme Court cases on academic freedom, as well as several recent state court cases on the regulation of teaching in private postsecondary institutions. Constitutional…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Accreditation (Institutions), Certification, Court Litigation
Manning, Thurston E. – 1986
Accrediting associations assess colleges in order to find out what has been accomplished, and to find out how it might be better accomplished. Assessment of educational outcomes can be a useful way to demonstrate the success of alternative means. However, accrediting agencies do not rely exclusively on outcome measures, since they only assess what…
Descriptors: Accrediting Agencies, Agency Role, Colleges, Educational Assessment
Kayler, Grant – 1988
The project that yielded this report developed a framework for the University of Alberta's library to guide the activities of the self-study portion of the university's Presidential Advisory Committee on Campus Review (PACCR). The framework demonstrates how the review process can be adapted to meet the particular needs of the library while…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Policy, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Grosset, Jane – 1989
This paper describes the conceptual model of retention used as the framework for research on institutional effectiveness at the Community College of Philadelphia (CCP). First, an overview of the literature on student attrition is presented, followed by a specific review of research based on Tinto's model of student attrition. This model maintains…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Dropout Research, Evaluation Methods
Heaney, Barbara – 1990
With the growing demand for accountability by legislators, outcomes assessment has become a much higher institutional priority for community colleges. According to a recent survey, two-thirds of the states have implemented formal assessment initiatives, compared to a very few states only 1 year earlier. Institutions, however, must be careful that…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Outcomes Assessment, College Planning, Community Colleges
A Model for Evaluating the Sources of Professional Esteem for Vocational Teacher Education Programs.
Camp, William G.; And Others – 1987
A model for evaluating agricultural teacher education programs was developed and tested. The quality of the program was indicated by members of the profession, who were asked to list, in rank order, the top 10 college programs and to give reasons for their rankings. Program rankings were also compared with the faculty rank of the respondents,…
Descriptors: Agricultural Colleges, Agricultural Education, College Faculty, Evaluation Criteria
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Div. of Quality Assurance. – 1986
The purpose of this project is to ensure that children enrolled in private, nonprofit schools within the geographic boundaries of the District of Columbia have equitable participation in Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) activities as compared to those enrolled in public schools. Practices have been established to fulfill the…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Discrimination, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Bunda, Mary Anne – 1988
It is important for assessment programs in higher education to provoke good internal evaluation efforts, but it is also hard to turn an assessment program into a viable evaluation program. This is because there are so many different audiences for the information being gathered about programs. Assessment as discussed in higher education literature…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods
