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Koedel, Cory; Parsons, Eric – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2021
The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) is a policy change to the federally administered National School Lunch Program that allows schools serving low-income populations to classify all students as eligible for free meals, regardless of individual circumstances. This has implications for the use of free and reduced-price meal (FRM) data to proxy…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Eligibility, Lunch Programs, National Programs
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Gersten, Russell; Jayanthi, Madhavi; Dimino, Joseph – Exceptional Children, 2017
The report of the national response to intervention (RTI) evaluation study, conducted during 2011-2012, was released in November 2015. Anyone who has read the lengthy report can attest to its complexity and the design used in the study. Both these factors can influence the interpretation of the results from this evaluation. In this commentary, we…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, National Programs, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Hoffman, Lee – Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2012
ED"Facts" is an initiative of the U. S. Department of Education to base education policy on reliable performance data provided by state education agencies. Among its many data items, ED"Facts" houses school-level counts of students disaggregated by state-defined student economic status, typically free and reduced-price lunch…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Lunch Programs, National Programs, Economically Disadvantaged
National Assessment Governing Board, 2012
For more than four decades the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has tracked the achievement of U.S. students in major academic subjects. This national resource is the only assessment that states and now many urban districts can look to as an objective yardstick of their performance over time, relative to national benchmarks, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Collection, Information Needs, Needs Assessment
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Wang, Greg G.; Swanson, Richard A. – Human Resource Development Review, 2008
Recent human resource development (HRD) literature focuses attention on national HRD (NHRD) research and represents problems in both HRD identity and research methodology. Based on a review of development economics and international development literature, this study analyzes the existing NHRD literature with respect to the theory development…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Labor Force Development, Human Resources, Research Problems
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Campbell, Anne; McNamara, Olwen; Furlong, John; Lewis, Sarah F.; Howson, John – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2007
This article reviews the processes, issues and dilemmas involved in evaluation research undertaken in the context of changing and evolving government policy in education. The article is grounded in an evaluation of the National Partnership Project (NPP), the team conducted on behalf of England's Teacher Training Agency (TTA) in 2004-2005. It will…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Partnerships in Education, Evaluation Research