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Setting Evidence-Based Language Goals
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Goertler, Senta; Kraemer, Angelika; Schenker, Theresa – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
The purpose of this project was to identify target language benchmarks for the German program at Michigan State University (MSU) based on national and international guidelines and previous research, to assess language skills across course levels and class sections in the entire German program, and to adjust the language benchmarks as needed based…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Benchmarking, German, Language Skills
Using Student and Institutional Characteristics to Predict Graduation Rates at Community Colleges: New Developments in Performance Measures and Institutional Effectiveness
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Moosai, Susan; Walker, David A.; Floyd, Deborah L. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
Prediction models using graduation rate as the performance indicator were obtained for community colleges in California, Florida, and Michigan. The results of this study indicated that institutional graduation rate could be predicted effectively from an aggregate of student and institutional characteristics. A performance measure was computed, the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduation Rate, Institutional Evaluation, Institutional Characteristics
Telling the Statewide Testing Story . . . and Living to Tell It Again!
Roeber, Edward D.; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1980
Describes the program the Michigan department of education mounted to improve the way in which the media report the results of the Michigan Educational Assessment Program, a program that tests the basic skills of all fourth-, seventh-, and tenth-grade students each year. (IRT)
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Relations