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Peer reviewedNye, F. Ivan – Family Relations, 1982
Proposes a model through which researcher/educators can identify critical issues which confront large numbers of persons in the society, find the facts from research relevant to the issues, integrate these findings, and, restate them in language appropriate to the persons affected. Presents innovative ways of disseminating this information.…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Decision Making, Information Dissemination, Literature Reviews
Peer reviewedWolf, Robert L. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1979
The Judicial Evaluation Method (JEM) is useful for aiding decision-making bodies to formulate policies. Broad public participation in complex issues is provided by JEM. (The conceptualization, policy formulation stages, and participant roles are identified; and the model is applied in two case studies). (MH)
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Court Role, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Hayman, John; And Others – 1979
The cross-levels hypothesis is presented as an explanation for program evaluation failures. It states that the usefulness of evaluation data as feedback for decision making varies inversely with the number of organizational levels between the action the data describe, and the decisions they are intended to influence. To be useful for decision…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Vacc, Nicholas A., Ed.; Bardon, Jack I., Ed. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1982
Contains 16 articles presenting issues and practices concerning assessment and appraisal as they relate to counselors. Addresses specific areas of concern to counselors and provides commentaries differing in style and emphasis. Includes discussions of issues and an integration of many practices and procedures. (RC)
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Counselor Evaluation, Counselor Training, Data Collection
Peer reviewedCrovello, Theodore J. – American Biology Teacher, 1982
Discusses the use of computers for nine different tasks in biological education: information retrieval, data accumulation, data analysis, simulation and systems analysis, decision making, experimental control, course review, computer-managed instruction, and word processing. (PEB)
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, College Science, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction
Moyer, Kerry L. – 1978
Four evaluation methods for determining educational policy are objectivism; subjectivism; emotive-imperative; and instrumentalism. For the objectivist, the rationale for undertaking an evaluation is based on empirical verification or non-verification of claims of existing policies or activities. Secondly, the objectivist is interested in…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Change Strategies, Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Schemes
Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Office of Technology Assessment. – 1991
This report provides a summarized version of a larger study conducted by the Office of Technology Assessment concerning the choices that Congress and the executive branch must make in supporting U.S. science and engineering. The summary first discusses the report's origins; trends in federal research funding; and a look at federally funded…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Decision Making, Engineering Education, Engineering Technology
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Office of Technology Assessment. – 1991
This report analyzes what the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) identifies as four pressing challenges for the Federal Research System in resource allocation and funding for research in the 1990s: (1) setting priorities in funding; (2) understanding trends in research expenditures; (3) preparing human resources for the future research work…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Decision Making, Engineering Education, Engineering Technology
