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Juan D’Brot; W. Chris Brandt – Region 5 Comprehensive Center, 2024
Evaluation is a critical component of continuous improvement in education. Robust evaluations enable engaged parties to determine program and intervention impact on key outcomes, identify areas for improvement, and guide future actions. Additionally, as educational systems increasingly focus on data-driven decisionmaking, evaluation becomes even…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Educational Improvement, Program Evaluation, Educational Practices
Joseph Raymond Genovese – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this process evaluation was to evaluate how classroom teachers, campus administrators, and instructional staff differ in their perception of data usage for educational improvement in a large suburban Independent School District (ISD) in Southeast Texas. The researcher was granted permission by the superintendent of the school…
Descriptors: Data Use, Decision Making, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes
Daugherty, Lindsay – Grantee Submission, 2020
"Stackable credential programs" are designed to make it easier for students to earn multiple postsecondary certificates or degrees in a field as they advance in their careers. To examine the stacking of credentials in Ohio and inform ongoing efforts to scale stackable credential programs, the Ohio Department of Higher Education and the…
Descriptors: Data Use, Educational Improvement, Postsecondary Education, Credentials
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O'Brien, Shivaun; McNamara, Gerry; O'Hara, Joe; Brown, Martin – Professional Development in Education, 2022
This study explores the development and implementation of a professional development intervention for teachers in data-use as part of a whole school self-evaluation (SSE) process. A review of literature relating to professional development in general and data-use in particular informs the key features of the intervention which is tested in five…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Program Development, Program Implementation, Data Use
Knight, Jim – ASCD, 2021
Even under ideal conditions, teaching is tough work. Facing unrelenting pressure from administrators and parents and caught in a race against time to improve student outcomes, educators can easily become discouraged (or worse, burn out completely) without a robust coaching system in place to support them. For more than 20 years, perfecting such a…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Academic Achievement, Success, Teaching Methods
Dobrenen, Diana D. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Institutions of higher education are required by U.S. accrediting bodies to articulate their conceptual framework and develop a viable program improvement plan through a continuous reflective process of progressive problem solving that enables data-driven decision-making practices. To meet or exceed national accreditation standards for leadership,…
Descriptors: Improvement Programs, Program Evaluation, Higher Education, Educational Improvement
Yoo, Paul Youngmin; Whitaker, Anamarie A.; McCombs, Jennifer Sloan – RAND Corporation, 2019
Expanded learning intermediaries are nonprofit organizations dedicated to making after-school and summer programs better and more accessible for children and youth. They do this by coordinating efforts and resources in a given community, knitting programs together into a cohesive system, helping individual programs function at a high level, and…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, After School Programs, Summer Programs, Data Collection