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Download full textJackson, Michelle R. – 1994
The Prevention Training Institute has been developed to pilot a new strategy to assist inner-city service providers to further recognize and act on their own empowerment. Service providers must have the necessary capacities to incorporate new directions. These include knowledge of the current research, access to resources, and an understanding of…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Drug Education, Inner City, Intervention
Reed, Dorothy D.; Franks, Melvin G. – 1989
Educational research is designed to generate valid and reliable information needed by decision-makers. The issue of research utilization is of utmost importance, especially as it relates to the federal government; however, much of the research has not found its way into the policymaking process. This issue precipitated a survey of 141 Mid-South…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Educational Researchers
Beins, Bernard C. – 1991
The Barnum Effect was generated to teach students about the ethics of deception in research and the feelings of subjects who are deceived. The Barnum Effect occurs when individuals are duped into believing invalid results of psychological tests. People are most accepting when given favorable feedback about themselves. They interpret evaluations as…
Descriptors: College Students, Deception, Ethical Instruction, Ethics
Kinnick, Mary K., Ed. – 1982
Based on the experience of developing and implementing a cooperative study of the economic impact of Oregon's community colleges, this guidebook describes the process of conducting the study in order to assist institutions planning to undertake similar investigations. In Part I, the purpose, focus, and scope of the Oregon study are reviewed, and…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Economic Research, Educational Economics
Lillibridge, Fred – 1990
In an effort to review the effectiveness and the impact of the Office of Institutional Research (OIR) at El Paso Community College (EPCC) and to identify and report any significant problems with the quality of service being provided to the college president and other key policy and decision makers, an evaluation plan and survey test instrument…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Administration, Community Colleges, Evaluation Criteria
Weiss, Iris R. – 1986
A number of issues involved in the large-scale assessment of science and mathematics education were illustrated during the conduct of two national surveys: the 1977 National Survey of Science, Mathematics, and Social Studies Education and the 1985 National Survey, Science and Mathematics Education. Development of the survey questionnaires started…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
