If technology can affect student learning, shouldn't it be considered in making decisions? Data-driven decision making models include data from curriculum, instruction, test scores, lunch programs, budgets, and transportation. None of the current models include anything about technology. The challenge with any type of data-driven decision making…

This article highlights various literature covering a broad range of topics that are of interest to public services librarians, from collections and user services to one's own research and professional development. Although addressing many topics, these authors have all used or advocate for solid research methods and data analysis in their works,…

Web-based resources have the potential for improving classroom instruction through access to new scholarship, diverse perspectives on historical events and current issues, and online connections to people under study. This study is based on a three-year examination of how social studies teachers make decisions on using websites to rethink their…

This book offers a comprehensive guide to evaluation as applied to management development. Part I (Chapters 1-2) discusses the following: what management is; the role of training, development, and education of managers; the purposes of evaluation (proving, improving, learning, controlling); and approaches to evaluation. Part II (Chapters 3-6)…

A Center for the Study of Evaluation (CSE) evaluation framework describes the decision to be made, appropriate evaluation activity and activity description. The topic of this third CSE Evaluation Workshop is program planning, the second stage of the four stage evaluation framework. Evaluation activities should follow an orderly and logical…

This study is an attempt to provide organized and relevant objective evidence which can be used to improve student decisions. (Author)

Authors described various theories and methods of evaluation, as well as issues of procedure. (Editor /RK)

This document deals with a common problem: the fact that "needs assessment" is often required by law and regulation, but there is little agreement on what the term means or what the process entails. The uses and definitions of the term "needs assessment" are examined and categorized along with the various methodologies which are ascribed to it.…

In an interpretive studies project conducted for the Office of Education, Dr. Dale L. Bolton of the University of Washington, Seattle, surveyed the findings of research and the hiring and placement practices of business and industry, governmental agencies, and large school systems. In his final report he examines such problems as how to approach…

An overview of educational evaluation theory in general, and its formative phase in specific, is presented. Educational evaluation is defined as are its formative and summative phases and its classifications of external and internal evaluation. Each phase and classification are discussed largely in the context of formative evaluation. In addition,…

Systems analysis, in this context, is not the process which is the necessary prelude to library automation; it is something more basic. It involves seeking out the fundamentals of a situation and applying scientific methods to their study, to find an optimal solution to the problems facing the manager. (20 references) (Author/TW)

Proposes a model through which researcher/educators can identify critical issues which confront large numbers of persons in the society, find the facts from research relevant to the issues, integrate these findings, and, restate them in language appropriate to the persons affected. Presents innovative ways of disseminating this information.…

Argues that the link between clinical supervision and teacher thought processes warrants a modification of the cycle in the form of the "isotopex"--a brief exchange at the conclusion of the observation phase that provides for evaluation in terms of preactive and interactive objectives and strategies. (Author)

Advocates data-driven decision making as a key to school improvement. Discusses how data can be used to improve education, what types of data should be collected, should teachers serve as researchers, how data can be used effectively, and what steps schools can take to improve their use of data. (VWC)

Explores the information-seeking practices of career counselors during career interviews. Outlines sensitive areas for career guidance counselors, and describes a research project that examined the types of information career counselors found pertinent. The findings, although based on very limited research, raise some issues of relevance to the…