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Sabatino, David A. – 1974
The ninth part of a 10-part series, this report was compiled by the Educational Development Center at Wilkes College. The series deals with various aspects of the treatment of delinquents and is intended as a summary of research findings in each of the areas treated. Each report was prepared by a scholar-practitioner and is presented in a way that…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Decision Making, Delinquency, Delinquent Rehabilitation
Miller, Juliet V.; Wargel, James F. – 1978
This collection of program evaluation studies is designed to help program evaluation staff in state agencies improve their current program education strategies. It alerts staff members to procedures being used in other state agencies, as well as provides further information about the current status of state rehabilitation agency program…
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation, Guides
Download full textLittle Prints, 2002
Providing the early childhood (EC) community with a timely, actionable information about the Illinois State Board of Education's early learning initiative, "Little Prints" is a newsletter highlighting best practices among EC programs, representing the interests of and issues of EC professionals engaged in the education and care of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Early Childhood Education, Educational Technology, Evaluation Methods
Preece, Laurel, Ed. – ERIC/EECE Newsletter, 1999
This document consists of the two 1999 issues of the newsletter of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education (ERIC/EECE). Each issue contains a feature article and one or more short articles on topics related to early childhood education, calls for papers, announcements about Internet resources, news items about and lists…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, Day Care
Peer reviewedScheirer, Mary Ann – New Directions for Evaluation, 1996
This eight chapters of this special issue introduce the use of a template to specify program components as a new tool for program evaluation. The template articulates the components needed for program delivery and provides a systematic method for assessing program implementation. (SLD)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation
Peer reviewedWatson, Ken, Ed.; And Others – Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation/La Revue canadienne d'evaluation de programme, 1997
The seven articles in this edition show that cost-benefit analysis is emerging from the confusion of the 1980s and is probably going to become the central tool of program evaluation in the future. The modern approach involves incorporating probability distributions into the cost-benefit analysis. None of the articles are specifically…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Economic Impact, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedFournier, Deborah M., Ed. – New Directions for Evaluation, 1995
The seven chapters of this special issue explore problems in how to better understand the reasoning process that is used to establish evaluative conclusions. The many unanswered questions about reasoning should stimulate further investigation of the meaning of sound evaluative reasoning. (SLD)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Data Interpretation, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedBausell, R. Barker, Ed. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1995
The six articles of this issue discuss the place of meta-analysis in the health professions and present two state-of-the-art meta-analyses using a variety of innovative methodologies, statistics, and secondary analytic procedures. A survey conducted for this issue and its sequel explores interventions to facilitate meta-analysis. (SLD)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Health
Peer reviewedHenry, Gary T., Ed.; Julnes, George, Ed.; Mark, Melvin M., Ed. – New Directions for Evaluation, 1998
The five articles of this sourcebook, organized around the five-component framework for evaluation described by W. Shadish, T. Cook, and L. Leviton (1991), present a new theory of realist evaluation that captures the sensemaking contributions of postpositivism and the sensitivity to values from the constructivist traditions. (SLD)
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Models
Peer reviewedSechrest, Lee, Ed. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1993
Two chapters of this issue consider critical multiplism as a research strategy with links to meta analysis and generalizability theory. The unifying perspective it can provide for quantitative and qualitative evaluation is discussed. The third chapter explores meta analysis as a way to improve causal inferences in nonexperimental data. (SLD)
Descriptors: Causal Models, Evaluation Methods, Generalizability Theory, Inferences
Mar, Harvey – DB-LINK, 1996
This fact sheet answers frequently asked questions about psychological evaluations for infants, children, and adults who are deaf-blind. It also considers how to use psychological evaluation quality indicators and identifies desired outcomes to maximize benefits to the student. Questions addressed include: (1) what skills and abilities are…
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Scannell, William – Insights on Educational Policy and Practice, 1988
Effective leadership is more than the ability to demonstrate specific skills. The validity of early effective principal and leadership trait research has been questioned by recent studies. School improvement formulas that are narrowly focused on basic skills could easily lead to more demanding treatment of students. Recent studies show that…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Qualifications, Elementary Secondary Education
McRobbie, Joan – Knowledge Brief, 1992
What educators around the country are finding out as they work with portfolios is reviewed, focusing on the classroom. Portfolios are purposeful, collaborative, self-reflective collections of student work generated during the process of instruction. Although they can be used in any academic discipline, portfolios are widely used in English and…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Illovsky, M., Ed. – IACD Quarterly, 1992
This document consists of the four issues of the "IACD Quarterly" published in 1992. Articles in this volume include: (1) "A Multicultural Approach to Assertiveness Training" (Wilma Henry and Mary Ann Jones); (2) "Life-Skills: Research and Application" (Michael Illovsky); (3) "'A Model for Grief Counseling:…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Black Family, Career Counseling, Counseling
Massy, William F. – Capital Ideas, 1991
Among the many reasons why college and university costs are rising are factors internal to the institutions which hold down productivity. Most efforts to improve productivity usually fail because they do not introduce new energy or information from the outside. In order to improve productivity, formal, non-quantitative evaluation should include a…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, College Administration, Costs, Evaluation Methods
