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Evaluation Practices in National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates Programs
Direct linkAlyson S. Busse – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to assess and describe the status of program evaluation within the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) sites. The National Science Foundation's REU program supports thousands of undergraduates annually in hands-on, immersive research experiences under the mentorship of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods, Program Evaluation
Peer reviewedJennifer Schluer; Annika Brück-Hübner – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2025
Feedback is a key factor for learning success and has therefore been widely studied in higher education. As feedback is a highly contextualized practice serving various learner needs, researchers have utilized a plethora of feedback designs in their intervention studies. This diversity in feedback conceptualizations and pedagogical designs often…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Higher Education, Program Design, Program Effectiveness
Nick Pilcher; Kendall Richards – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2025
Study Skills in any guise are integral to Higher Education worldwide, existing to help student success. Some argue generic or bolt-on Study Skills do not help with success, others that embedded Study Skills do, but no-one advocates actually evaluating Study Skills in a context of success defined as helping with student educational gain and…
Descriptors: Study Skills, Higher Education, College Students, Learning Strategies
Download full textJean Grossman; Hannah Betesh; Blake Dohrn; Daniel Litwok; Jacob Klerman – MDRC, 2024
Job Corps is the largest and most comprehensive education and job training program in the United States for young people ages 16 to 24 who are not in school and are not working. To deepen the Job Corps program's ability to generate and use evidence to improve the labor market trajectories of eligible young people, this report discusses ways Job…
Descriptors: Job Training, Federal Programs, Program Evaluation, Educational Research
Viselli, Claudia – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Many children are attending after-school programs for various reasons, such as academic support, recreational play, and social interaction. Accompanied by high parental demands for affordable child-care, after-school program participation has increased significantly. The issue of quality care becomes important as the number of children enrolled in…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Qualitative Research
Jason Loh; Wan Har Chong; Christina Lim-Ratnam – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2024
This scoping review examines the landscape of educational evaluation research in Asia over the past decade, uncovering the methodologies, themes, and unique regional challenges within this domain. By delving into 62 articles from evaluation-centric journals, the study reveals a predominant focus on learning, teaching, and assessment, highlighting…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Program Evaluation, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
Diego Herrero-González; Víctor Manuel López-Pastor; Juan Carlos Manrique-Arribas; André Moura – European Physical Education Review, 2024
Assessment is a key element in the teaching-learning process in physical education (PE). In 2020, the Association Internationale des Écoles Supérieures d'Éducation Physique (AIESEP) published a position statement on PE assessment, in which it reviews the current state of the field and establishes the current yet forward-looking main lines of…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation
Yao, Jing; Yao, Jijun; Li, Peixuan; Xu, Yifan; Wei, Lai – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2023
The after-school program is a crucial initiative for implementing the Double Reduction policy; however, prior research has not provided conclusive evidence on whether extended school hours contribute to students' cognitive and non-cognitive development or on which types of after-school services are more beneficial for student development. This…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Students, Cognitive Ability, Ability
What Works Clearinghouse, 2022
Education decisionmakers need access to the best evidence about the effectiveness of education interventions, including practices, products, programs, and policies. It can be difficult, time consuming, and costly to access and draw conclusions from relevant studies about the effectiveness of interventions. The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC)…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Standards, Educational Research
Cooper, Amanda; MacGregor, Stephen; Shewchuk, Samantha – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2020
Research-practice-partnerships (RPPs) have arisen as a potentially powerful mechanism for school improvement; however, there is little work how to evaluate RPPs. This study investigates how four RPPs are addressing impact by (a) document analysis of metrics (N = 123) being used to assess partnerships, and (b) interviews exploring how network leads…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Partnerships in Education, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Timothy Lycurgus; Ben B. Hansen – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
Background: Efficacy trials in education often possess a motivating theory of change: how and why should the desired improvement in outcomes occur as a consequence of the intervention? In scenarios with repeated measurements, certain subgroups may be more or less likely to manifest a treatment effect; the theory of change (TOC) provides guidance…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Research, Intervention, Efficiency
Weiland, Christina; Unterman, Rebecca; Dynarski, Susan; Abenavoli, Rachel; Bloom, Howard; Braga, Breno; Faria, Ann-Marie; Greenberg, Erica H.; Jacob, Brian; Arnold Lincove, Jane; Manship, Karen; McCormick, Meghan; Miratrix, Luke; Monarrez, Tomás E.; Morris-Perez, Pamela; Shapiro, Anna; Valant, Jon; Weixler, Lindsay – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
Lottery-based identification strategies offer potential for generating the next generation of evidence on U.S. early education programs. Our collaborative network of five research teams applying this design in early education and methods experts has identified six challenges that need to be carefully considered in this next context: (1) available…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Admission (School)
Maria Paz Fernandez Smits – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation explores conceptual and methodological issues related to measuring implementation in quantitative educational research. Implementation, defined as the enactment of interventions in educational contexts, plays a pivotal role in understanding how programs operate and affect student outcomes. Despite its importance, there is…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Program Implementation, Intervention, Response to Intervention
What Works Clearinghouse, 2017
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) evaluates research studies that look at the effectiveness of education programs, products, practices, and policies, which the WWC calls "interventions." Many studies of education interventions make claims about impacts on students' outcomes. Some studies have designs that enable readers to make causal…
Descriptors: Program Design, Program Development, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Christina Weiland; Rebecca Unterman; Susan Dynarski; Rachel Abenavoli; Howard Bloom; Breno Braga; Anne-Marie Faria; Erica Greenberg; Brian A. Jacob; Jane Arnold Lincove; Karen Manship; Meghan McCormick; Luke Miratrix; Tomás E. Monarrez; Pamela Morris-Perez; Anna Shapiro; Jon Valant; Lindsay Weixler – Grantee Submission, 2024
Lottery-based identification strategies offer potential for generating the next generation of evidence on U.S. early education programs. The authors' collaborative network of five research teams applying this design in early education settings and methods experts has identified six challenges that need to be carefully considered in this next…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Admission (School)
