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Download full textTexas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Austin. Div. of Community and Technical Colleges. – 1994
In May 1993, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board formed the Task Force on Institutional Effectiveness (TFIE) to develop a state-level evaluation and continuous improvement plan for community and technical college (CTC) workforce education and academic programs. This report presents the plan for utilizing data collected on CTC's in three…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Community Colleges, Educational Assessment, Educational Quality
Hand, Carol A.; Prather, James E. – 1990
The purpose of this study was to relate college-level or univeristy-level student performance to high school effectiveness, which was measured in terms of the college performance of a high school's graduates, after controlling for students' academic aptitude. Unusually effective schools were identified by examining the residuals of a multiple…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, College Freshmen, Educational Quality
Council Bluffs Community School District, IA. – 1987
This summary outline presents performance evaluation procedures of the 1986-87 administrator accountability plan adopted by the Council Bluffs Community Schools, Iowa. Procedures ensure that a cooperative evaluation plan is established, there is continuity between evaluation cycles, guidance and assistance are provided, and due process is…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Responsibility, Board of Education Policy
Smyth, W. John – 1984
Through the process of clinical supervision, systematic approaches permit effective change by the collaborative analysis of teaching. This guide's first section, "Beginnings," describes the process of clinical supervision. Emphasis is upon teachers working collaboratively to discover implicit teaching messages and to assimilate new…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Education
King, Christopher T. – 1988
Concern for performance management has increased sharply in recent decades in both the public and private sectors. This has been particularly true in the management of state and federally funded human resource development programs. Legislative purpose, level of use, the role of performance standards, appropriate measures of performance, target…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Educational Policy, Employment Programs, Government Role
Phipps, Ron; McDaniel, Cleve – 1988
An ongoing study was initiated to provide a reliable means of defining and measuring factors affecting students' performance as they move from high school to college, including the reasons why some are more able than others to excel and/or persist. The study provides public high schools, colleges, universities and the Missouri Coordinating Board…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, College Students
Southeast Community Coll., Lincoln, NE. – 1983
Developed by high school teachers and junior college instructors in cooperation with representatives of business and industry, these materials are designed to help students move from class to class, from secondary to postsecondary education, and from school to employment. The materials consist of student outcomes; competencies for job or advanced…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Behavioral Objectives, Building Trades, Competence
Hughes, M. Jeffry; Segall, Alexander – 1988
This study investigated the community adjustment of individuals with mental retardation who were former residents of the Manitoba Development Centre (MDC) in Canada. The study explored the combined effects of personal factors, residential factors, and neighborhood attitudes on community adjustment, to identify the best set of predictors of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attitudes toward Disabilities, Community Programs, Daily Living Skills
College Entrance Examination Board, New York, NY. – 1977
After two years of investigation, a panel appointed to advise the College Entrance Examination Board and Educational Testing Service on the recent change in Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores concluded that the 14-year score decline is a complex phenomenon, yielding neither simple explanations nor easy solutions. As a result of looking at the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations, Educational Change
Jackson, Rex – 1976
Data are presented concerning the numbers of students taking the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT) and the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT), and their mean scores for the period 1959 through l976. The implications of these results in relation to changes in the candidate group…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations, Educational Problems
Willis, Joe D.; Layne, Benjamin H. – 1982
It was hypothesized that motivation (power, achievement, or fear of failure) scores would be important variables in predicting coaches' and students' ratings of competitiveness and skill. Female high school students in basketball, tennis, and track and field used a self-peer measurement technique to rate competitiveness and skill. Coaches' ratings…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Athletes, Athletic Coaches, Competition
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1978
Results of a survey using a criterion referenced test of mathematics for a large sample of sixth and eleventh grade students throughout Texas are reported in detail. Details of the sampling design and of the test development are reported elsewhere. Results are reported in terms of the percent of students correctly answering three out of four items…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Arithmetic, Behavioral Objectives
Holmes, Mark – 1977
Statistical data and comments describe the results of the 1977 eighth grade testing program in Ontario, Canada. The tests were: Mathematics (in French and English), Problem Solving (in French and English); Science (in English only), Attitudes, French Comprehension, and Written English. Table 1 presents the numbers of students, by school district,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, English, Foreign Countries
Charters, Alexander N. – 1978
To have an impact in the adult education field, adult educators must improve their competencies through professional development. Although adult education academic programs exist, many agencies hiring adult educators do not require this background and frequently are unaware that the field exists. The Coalition of Adult Education Organizations has…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Agency Role, Educational Resources, Entry Workers
JOHNSON, KIRK A.; AND OTHERS – 1967
IN THIS STUDY, THE THIRD IN A SERIES EVALUATING PROGRAMED AND CONVENTIONAL INSTRUCTION IN THE SCHOOLS OF THE NAVAL AIR TECHNICAL TRAINING COMMAND, A COMPARISON WAS MADE BETWEEN TWO VERSIONS OF THE AIRBORNE RADIO CODE OPERATOR (ARCO) COURSE. IN THE CONVENTIONAL VERSION, MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS PROCEDURES WERE TAUGHT BY MEANS OF LECTURE DISCUSSION…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Communications, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Lecture Method
