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Download full textStake, Bernadine Evans; And Others – 1984
The National Sex Equity Demonstration Project (NSEDP) in the Broward County Schools, Florida, was created in 1979 to provide a demonstration of sex equity teaching. The two principal thrusts of the Project were to review materials to be used by regular teachers and to demonstrate how classrooms (and a whole district) could diminish discrimination…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization
Dynarski, Mark – 1994
Since 1988 five evaluations of Federal demonstration programs in education have been implemented that had random-assignment designs to measure program impacts. The implementation of two of these evaluations, the evaluation of the School Dropout Demonstration Assistance Program and that of the Alternative Schools Random Assignment Program, are…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Demonstration Programs, Dropout Programs, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedDeStefano, Lizanne – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1992
Citing the signaling and charged use distinction, examines federal expectations and need for evaluation data and extent of local capabilities to meet those expectations when secondary/transition model demonstration projects, funded by the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services, were obligated to improve amount, quality, and use of…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedDatta, Lois-ellin – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1993
Dissemination approaches of the U.S. Department of Education are explored in the context of federal efforts to recognize the best, considering relatively systematic approaches to recognition and the five vulnerable evaluation areas of (1) undefined universes; (2) noncomparable goals; (3) identifying reproducible conditions; (4) saturation; and (5)…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Educational Innovation, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedKlein, Susan Shurberg – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1993
After describing inadequacies of current U.S. Department of Education funding strategies in identifying and sharing the best of research and development, this article outlines an alternative vision centered on using evaluation to guide replication. How to overcome constraints in implementing this vision for federal education leadership is…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Educational Finance, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Office of Personnel Management. Washington, DC. Training Leadership Div. – 1979
This report summarizes the evaluation of civilian training in six Federal government agencies. A representative sample of executive, managerial, technical, clerical and scientific training programs were selected. The project's purposes were: (1) to produce useful examples of systematic training evaluation; and (2) to generate recommendations for…
Descriptors: Adults, Costs, Demonstration Programs, Evaluation Methods
Bartik, Timothy J.; Bingham, Richard D. – 1996
The question of whether economic development programs can be evaluated seems simple, but the answer is not simple because of the nature of evaluation. Determining a program's effectiveness requires the evaluator to distinguish changes due to the program from changes due to nonprogram factors. The evaluator must focus on outcomes caused by the…
Descriptors: Community Development, Comparative Analysis, Demonstration Programs, Developmental Programs
