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Zandniapour, Lily; Deterding, Nicole M. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2018
Tiered evidence initiatives are an important federal strategy to incentivize and accelerate the use of rigorous evidence in planning, implementing, and assessing social service investments. The Social Innovation Fund (SIF), a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service, adopted a public-private partnership approach to tiered…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Research Needs, Evidence
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Zepeda, Sally J.; Lanoue, Philip D.; Price, Noris F.; Jimenez, Albert M. – School Leadership & Management, 2014
The article examines the tensions one superintendent in the USA experienced as he evaluated principals in a high-stakes environment that had undergone numerous transformations at the central office. Using qualitative methods, primarily, shadowing techniques, observations and debriefing, the following tensions emerged and were examined in light of…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Evaluation, Educational Change, Evaluation Problems
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Black, Paul – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2015
The preceding articles in this issue describe a diverse range of projects which had in common the aim of implementing or improving the practice of formative assessment, and thereby to secure some of the benefits attributed to it. This article attempts to set up a framework within which each of the different studies may be located and…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Role, Evaluation Needs