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Download full textMissouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education, Jefferson City. – 1987
Assessment projects at Missouri's institutions of higher education are summarized. At the request of the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education, each institution prepared a description that included information on the number of students involved, expected outcomes, and specifically related expenditures. In Missouri, assessment is…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Finance, Educational Objectives, Expenditures
Berg, Ernest H. – 1987
A survey was conducted by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges to assess the impact of accreditation on institutional members of the association. Questionnaires were mailed to the chief executive officers (CEO's) of all public and private two-year colleges in the…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Administrator Attitudes, College Faculty, Community Colleges
Miller, Richard I., Ed. – 1988
This collection of essays by community college administrators and faculty was developed to help administrators initiate better policies and procedures for evaluating students, full- and part-time faculty, administrators, programs, student services, external relations, and the institutions themselves. The volume contains: (1) "The Role of…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Community Colleges, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Alaska State Commission on Postsecondary Education, Juneau. – 1984
A review of the University of Alaska's operating and capital budget submission for fiscal year 1986 is presented, directed at the educational and programmatic impact of the budget request. Five recommendations endorsed by the Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education are analyzed. Additional contents include: summary information for the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Budgets, College Credits, College Programs
Kimball, Roland – 1989
This report is the fourth of a series on cultivating excellence in education for the purpose of training and retraining school leaders of the 1990s. The role of school administrators in program evaluation and the purposes of program evaluation form the content of this four-part report. Part 1 establishes the context for program evaluation within a…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Educational Assessment
Head, Ronald B. – 1989
Between June 1987 and June 1989, Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC) undertook several activities to assess student outcomes in accordance with the college's 1987 plan for student assessment. Specific measures included determining entering student characteristics, college transfer education outcomes, occupational/technical education…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Employer Attitudes, General Education
Allen, G. Jack; Andrews, Grover J. – 1980
Results and recommendations of an in-depth study of education offered at 25 military installations are presented. Information is provided on study goals and the research design, and strengths/weaknesses of the study. A summary of site visitation findings is presented, along with conclusions concerning: institutional purpose and goals, organization…
Descriptors: Accrediting Agencies, Ancillary School Services, Armed Forces, Case Studies
Steuart, T. Al; Rathburn, C. B., III – 1982
The project described in this report was conducted to identify what information about program characteristics was considered most useful by administrators in Florida's community college system in making decisions about program quality and to produce profiles of program characteristics to facilitate the decision-making process. Chapter I contains…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Programs, Community Colleges, Decision Making
Winter, David G.; And Others – 1981
The results of several cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of students at liberal arts colleges and other postsecondary institutions are reported to demonstrate that liberal arts education has beneficial effects not produced by any other kind of training. Chapters include: approaches to evaluating liberal education; measuring cognitive,…
Descriptors: College Graduates, College Role, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment
Gage, N. L.; And Others – 1980
The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) established a task force to investigate the impact of its activities in two areas, research and development and field development. In the first part of this report, the task force and its work are discussed, and the central issues that the task force is concerned with are defined. In Part Two,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics
Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior Coll., Perkinston. – 1981
In spring 1980, follow-ups were conducted of students who graduated from Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College (MGCJC) during the spring 1979 term and students who did not return to MGCJC but who did not graduate. These studies were conducted in conjunction with all state junior colleges. During spring 1979, 838 students graduated from the four…
Descriptors: College Graduates, College Transfer Students, Dropouts, Education Work Relationship
Priest, Bill J. – 1980
A perspective on quality in higher education suggests that standards and assumptions about quality that have been traditionally accepted for upper level colleges are not applicable to community colleges. It is proposed that quality standards be established for community colleges to reflect their unique mission and goals. The most distinctive…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Admission, College Role, Community Colleges
Manning, Thurston E. – 1978
A summary of the Inservice Education Program Seminars for State Leaders in Postsecondary Education, sponsored by the Education Commission of the States (ECS) and the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, is presented. Themes that occurred in the discussions, recommendations of an American Institutes for Research (AIR) report…
Descriptors: Accountability, Accrediting Agencies, Agency Role, Consumer Protection
Smith, Hayden R., Ed. – Networker, 1978
This publication's theme, "Institutional Change," is broadly examined in fourteen articles that range from research and opinion to allegory and satire. A student teacher, a dean, and a state education director are among the authors. Articles concern: 1) key elements of change; 2) relationships between local, county, state, and federal educational…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation
Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1977
Results of the Office of Education's Bureau of Higher and Continuing Education's inspection of Howard University's Graduate School and the Ph.D. program are presented. The inspection was performed by conducting a survey of the administrative staff, the faculty, and student body, and by examining relevant facilities, laboratories, equipment,…
Descriptors: College Admission, Curriculum Evaluation, Departments, Doctoral Programs
