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Peer reviewedFarmer, Lesley S. J. – Top of the News, 1986
Reports on a program held at the 1986 American Library Association Conference which offered a model for locating and evaluating existing research on libraries. Six guidelines for evaluating research are provided, and small group sessions which evaluated actual research and talked directly with researchers are described. (EM)
Descriptors: Conferences, Evaluation Methods, Guidelines, Library Associations
Download full textAssociation for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. – 1997
The Public Relations section of the Proceedings contains the following 13 papers: "Pluralistic Ignorance and Educators in Public Relations: Underestimating Professionalism of Our Educator Peers and of Practitioners in the Field" (Lynne M. Sallot; Glen T. Cameron; Ruth Ann Weaver-Lariscy); "Critical Conflict Issues in Public…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Editors, Employee Attitudes, Evaluation Methods
Australian Association for Research in Education, Melbourne. – 1977
Over 40 papers presented at an Australian conference on curriculum evaluation are included in this publication. Among the topics are: evaluation models; the relationship of reliability to the amount of observation; Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I evaluation; designing policy-oriented research; methodology in evaluating teacher behavior;…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Course Evaluation, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Policy
Ryan, Anthony S., Ed.; Fraser, Barry J., Ed. – 1984
This document is the third in a series of collection of papers from workshops sponsored by the Faculty of Education at the Western Australian Institute of Technology. It contains three papers from a seminar on educational evaluation held early in 1984. The papers present ideas involving the need for the evaluation of instruction within school…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Needs, Environmental Education, Evaluation Methods
Myrick, Howard A.; Keegan, Carol – 1980
The purpose of this conference was to assess the technical feasibility of obtaining qualitative ratings to measure the effectiveness of public television. The state-of-the-art in qualitative ratings is discussed in terms of a review of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's past and current qualitative research efforts, international approaches…
Descriptors: Audiences, Bibliographies, Evaluation Methods, Feedback
Flores, Kathryn Younger – 1995
This paper presents preliminary, but statistically significant, findings from a study that compares two methods of measuring instructional effectiveness: global evaluation by experts and systematic observation using the SCRIBE Ob.2 software developed at the University of Texas at Austin. Hierarchical instruction of a performance skill…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing
Hord, Shirley M., Ed.; Adams, Ronald D., Ed. – 1981
The first paper in this collection of symposium papers presents the results of a survey of nearly 800 educational institutions and provides information on institutional characteristics, institutions engaged in teacher education evaluation, scope of data collected, methods of data collection, relationship between size of program and method of data…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Decision Making, Evaluation Criteria
Peer reviewedVan House, Nancy A.; Childers, Thomas – Public Libraries, 1991
Discusses methods of evaluation that can be used to measure public library effectiveness, based on a conference sponsored by the Council on Library Resources. Topics discussed include the Public Library Effectiveness Study (PLES), quantitative and qualitative evaluation, using evaluative information for resource acquisition and resource…
Descriptors: Conferences, Evaluation Methods, Futures (of Society), Governance
Tobin, Kenneth; Fraser, Barry J. – 1985
Large scale assessments of educational progress can be useful tools to judge the effectiveness of educational programs and assessments. This document contains papers presented at the research seminar on this topic held at the Western Australian Institute of Technology in November, 1984. It is the fifth in a series of publications of papers…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Baggaley, Jon, Ed.; Janega, Patti, Ed. – 1981
An introduction by Jon Baggaley provides background information on this international conference and its participants, and introduces 10 papers which were presented. The papers are as follows: (1) "Teaching Production Research and Design: The Interface of Theory and Practice" (James M. Linton); (2) "The Impact of Television on…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Audience Analysis, Educational Television
Looking into Classrooms. Monograph in the Faculty of Education Research Seminar and Workshop Series.
Treagust, David F., Ed.; Fraser, Barry J., Ed. – 1984
There are many approaches to studying the classroom environment. This publication is a collection of papers presented at the fourth Research Seminar and Workshop at the Western Australian Institute of Technology on educational research in the classroom. The four papers contained in this document describe various approaches and perspectives to…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Methods, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education
Baggaley, Jon, Ed.; Janega, Patti, Ed. – 1982
An introduction briefly summarizes the four previous conferences in this series, identifies trends in topics addressed, and introduces the 16 presented papers in this collection. The papers are as follows: (1) "Formative Evaluation and the New Technologies" (Marjorie Cambre); (2) "Formative Evaluation of Sesame Street Using Eye…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Audience Analysis, Educational Television, Evaluation Methods
Jolly, S. Jean; And Others – 1982
This document contains five papers describing the customization of the achievement testing program for Palm Beach County (Florida) Schools. They are as follows: "Customized Achievement Testing Programs" (S. Jean Jolly); "Using the Rasch Model to Develop Curriculum-Referenced Norms" (R. Robert Rentz); "Matching Standardized…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Testing
Zukas, Miriam, Ed. – 1986
The main theme of the conference was the politics of adult education research. The following papers from the conference are included in this compilation, following the opening address (Nisbet): "Some Tension Points in Adult Education Research" (Bryant and Usher); "Key Issues in Adult Education Research" (Gerver); "Some…
Descriptors: Accountability, Action Research, Adult Education, Comparative Education
Weiss, David J., Ed. – 1980
This report is the Proceedings of the third conference of its type. Included are 23 of the 25 papers presented at the conference, discussion of these papers by invited discussants, and symposium papers by a group of leaders in adaptive testing and latent trait test theory research and applications. The papers are organized into the following…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Comparative Testing, Computer Assisted Testing
