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Download full textSmith, Nick L. – 1984
Based on similar studies conducted in 1978 and 1983, this paper provides information on changes in state department of education (SEA) evaluation units over a 5-year period and an update on current conditions. In brief, there appears to have been substantial reductions in the size of SEA evaluation unit staffs. While the majority of studies…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluators, Organizational Change
Caulley, Darrel N.; Smith, Nick L. – 1978
Heads of evaluation units in 21 state education agencies responded to a structured telephone interview about their unit's workload, evaluation methods, and associated problems and needs. Time committed to evaluation ranged from 10% to 100% and did not relate to staff size which ranged from 1-72. Eleven states contracted some of their evaluations.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs, Evaluators
Smith, Jana Kay; Smith, Nick L. – 1985
Data from two studies on evaluation budgeting practices are presented. In the first study, estimated budget figures are provided for formative and summative evaluations by 29 state education agency evaluators. In the second study, initial budget figures, final costs, and study characteristics are abstracted from the records of 85 evaluations…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedSmith, Nick L.; Smith, Jana K. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1985
This article discusses four basic types of cost analysis methods in educational evaluation. The results of a national survey of all evaluation units in state departments of education are reported. Evidence on the amount and types of cost analysis activities done for evaluation purposes in state education agencies is provided. (DWH)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Assessment, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Smith, Nick L.; Smith, Jana Kay – 1984
This report provides evidence on the amount and types of cost analysis activities currently done in educational evaluation. The results of three studies undertaken to document the actual use of cost methods are discussed. The first study is a review of cost studies conducted in health evaluation. The second study examines all cost studies…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Gray, Peter J.; Smith, Nick L. – 1983
Over 30 professional evaluators in five state departments of education and 5 large school districts were interviewed periodically over a 10-month period in 1982 to find out how the Education Consolidation Improvement Act of 1981 (ECIA) was affecting program evaluation activities. Preliminary findings on the impact of ECIA Chapter 1 (compensatory…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Compensatory Education, Decentralization, Educational Change
