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Download full textBanta, Trudy W. – 1984
This report describes a project undertaken at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) between January 1, 1982 and March 31, 1984, which was designed to increase the use in program assessment and in program improvement of information derived from measures of: (1) student achievement in general education; (2) student achievement in the major…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Outcomes Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization
Banta, Trudy W.; And Others – 1980
The Tennessee Nutrition Education and Training (NET) program is part of a U.S. Department of Agriculture effort to develop a coordinated nutrition education program for children from preschool through grade 12. In its first year of operation, the Tennessee NET program conducted summer nutrition education workshops for elementary teachers and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs
Banta, Trudy W.; And Others – 1981
The Tennessee Nutrition Education and Training (NET) program is part of a U.S. Department of Agriculture effort to develop a coordinated nutrition education program for children from preschool through grade 12. For this second-year evaluation, researchers associated with the University of Tennessee collected data for the evaluation of program…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Banta, Trudy W. – 1975
Evaluation questionnaires were administered to more than 92 percent of the professional staff associated with the Knox County Extended School Year (ESY) Program during the summer and fall of 1974 and to more than half of the students enrolled in the summer quinmester, along with a random sample of 10 percent of the students enrolled in October…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment
Peer reviewedBanta, Trudy W.; Kuh, George D. – Change, 1998
College faculty do not know enough about the current generation of college students, what they seek in college, how they spend time, what they expect of faculty and themselves. To accomplish the college's objectives for students' intellectual and personal development, they need the cooperation of student personnel workers, who work with students…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Expectation, Higher Education
Banta, Trudy W.; And Others – 1982
The Bureau of Educational Research and Service at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) conducted the 1981-82 evaluation of the Tennessee Nutrition Education and Training Program. Instruments developed, field tested, and revised by the UTK team were used to assess the nutrition knowledge, attitudes, practices, and perceptions of students…
Descriptors: Eating Habits, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Food Standards
Banta, Trudy W.; And Others – 1976
The Knox County extended school year (ESY) program emphasized K-12 curriculum improvement. During the trial of the ESY scheduling and curriculum changes, there was an increase in English and social studies scores at the high school, an increase at all levels in the extent to which students perceived that individualization of instruction was taking…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Banta, Trudy W.; And Others – 1976
A three-year trial of a voluntary quinmester plan for extending the school year began in June 1974 in five Knox County, Tennessee, schools. Curriculum revision, K-12, was the principal thrust of the ESY (Extended School Year) project, but administrators also hoped to relieve overcrowding in the schools and to effect more efficient use of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Cost Effectiveness, Curriculum Development
