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Download full textLigon, Glynn; Baenen, Nancy R. – 1990
GENESYS is the GENeric Evaluation SYStem of the Office of Research and Evaluation, Austin (Texas) Independent School District. It is a method of streamlining data collection and evaluation for a variety of projects. GENESYS gathers data from the school system's data bases and reports the following information (characteristics and outcomes) on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Computer Uses in Education, Credits
Schuyler, Nancy Baenen; Ligon, Glynn – 1984
The Austin Independent School District (AISD) is now in its third year of study on the effects of a new retention policy adopted in 1981-82. Reviewing the results of the first two years led to the conclusion that traditional methods of studying retention might not be the most appropriate. These evaluations have primarily focused on the impact of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Ligon, Glynn; Mangino, Evangelina – 1991
Issues related to achieving adequate national norms are reviewed, and a new methodology is proposed that would work to provide a true measure of national achievement levels on an annual basis and would enable reporting results in current-year norms. Statistical methodology and technology could combine to create a national norming process that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Uses in Education, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Ligon, Glynn; Wilkinson, David – 1985
A variety of methods are used by the Austin (Texas) Independent School District to report the results of student achievement testing. These techniques were developed to alleviate some of the problems that occurred previously: (1) a school's average score represents very few of its students because large numbers of students score very high or very…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests
Ligon, Glynn; Jackson, Elaine E. – 1988
The perceptions of teachers about students' lack of success were studied, and the groundwork was laid for the future study of the effectiveness of a policy of warning students and parents of impending failure. The primary sources of data were teacher-coded reasons for failure, given on notices (progress reports) to secondary school students in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Policy
Ligon, Glynn; And Others – 1974
Designed to establish a comprehensive program of bilingual education in Spanish and English in schools with high concentrations of Spanish dominant Mexican American students, the project aimed to: increase the achievement levels of minority students in the communication skills areas; provide for their special learning needs through a staff with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Classroom Observation Techniques, Comparative Analysis
Ligon, Glynn – 1985
The Austin, Texas,Independent School District's Department of Management Information has developed a set of guidelines for responding to requests for information about the schools, as well as requests for research subjects. Procedures for handling external requests have been grouped into five categories. (1) Research: applications must be approved…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Guides, Board of Education Policy, Classroom Research
