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Direct linkRobinson, Lauren; Dudensing, Rebekka; Granovsky, Nancy L. – Journal of Extension, 2016
Program evaluation often suffers due to time constraints, imperfect instruments, incomplete data, and the need to report standardized metrics. This article about the evaluation process for the Wi$eUp financial education program showcases the difficulties inherent in evaluation and suggests best practices for assessing program effectiveness. We…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research, Error of Measurement, Money Management
Smith, Gerald F. – Journal of Management Education, 2014
The development of student thinking skills is a major goal of business education. As with other such goals, student outcomes assessment must be undertaken to measure goal achievement. Thinking is difficult to teach; it is also difficult to assess. The purpose of this article is to improve management educators' understanding of student thinking…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Thinking Skills, College Students, Student Evaluation
Dale, Leigh – Higher Education Review, 2012
This essay is a contribution to the literature of critique of higher education policy and management. It offers a general discussion of problems arising from the proliferation of mechanisms of audit and quality assurance within the context of concerns about dependence on quantitative measures of values. It argues that uncritical dependence on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Anxiety, Quality Assurance
Download full textTrinity Univ., San Antonio, TX. Center for Educational Leadership. – 1993
Determining the limits of accountability and how schools should be assessed is one of the most difficult problems in education. The state of Texas has attempted accountability by rewarding some schools and punishing others without justification. The school superintendents of Bexar County (Texas) and the Center for Educational Leadership at Trinity…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedYsseldyke, Jim; Bielinski, John – Exceptional Children, 2002
A study compared the effects of different methods of analyzing trends to illustrate how failure to account for change in classification will lead to misinterpretation of data on the performance of students with disabilities. Data from five years of assessment in Texas is used to illustrate effects of classification changes. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Classification, Data Collection
Clark, Catherine P. – 1993
Compensatory education describes the special programs and services provided to students who are not succeeding in school and who do not qualify for special education. Educators define these students as "at risk"--at risk of school failure and a difficult transition to productive adult life. A recent study of compensatory education by the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
