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Direct linkRoss, John A.; Scott, Garth; Sibbald, Tim M. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2012
We evaluated the cost-effectiveness of Struggling Schools, a user-generated approach to Comprehensive School Reform implemented in 100 low achieving schools serving disadvantaged students in a Canadian province. The results show that while Struggling Schools had a statistically significant positive effect on Grade 3 Reading achievement, d = 0.48…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Reading Achievement, Grade 3, Low Achievement
Download full textvan Ackeren, Isabell; Block, Rainer; Klein, E. Dominique; Kuhn, Svenja M. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2012
In this article we present results from a study investigating the impact of three state exit exam systems on teaching and learning in college-preparatory schools. The study compares one state with a traditionally more centralized exam regime, one state that is more de-centralized and one state that has recently switched to more centralized…
Descriptors: Testing, Academic Achievement, Exit Examinations, Program Effectiveness
Vockley, Martha; Lang, Vockley – Council of Chief State School Officers, 2009
Since 1969, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has been the common yardstick for measuring the progress of students' education over time across the country. Teachers, principals, parents, policymakers, and researchers all use NAEP results to assess progress and develop ways to improve education in America. To make the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Schools of Education, Test Items, Student Evaluation
Lindfelt, Bengt, Ed. – 1996
In accordance with provincial educational regulations, Quebec's community colleges have adopted "politiques institutionnelles d'evaluation des apprentissages" (PIEA), or institutional policies of the evaluation of learning. This report provides a synthesis of evaluations of the PIEA conducted by the province's Commission on the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Quality, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Conseil des Colleges, Quebec (Quebec). – 1993
This two-part report by the Commission on Evaluation of Quebec's Council of Colleges focuses on the progress of the province's colleges in developing and implementing legislatively mandated policies concerning the evaluation of learning. Chapter 1 identifies the 107 of 112 colleges with written policies meeting the criteria established by the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Quality, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
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This guide was developed as a tool for group leaders to help people in their organizations participate in local discussions about literacy quality and evaluation in Ontario, Canada, as part of the Literacy Quality Standards and Evaluation Project. The guide is organized in seven sections that cover the following topics: definition of literacy;…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Community Programs
Conseil des Colleges, Quebec (Quebec). – 1992
This two-part report by the Commission on Evaluation of the Council of Colleges in Quebec focuses on the progress of the province's colleges in developing and implementing legislatively mandated policies concerning the evaluation of apprenticeships. Chapter 1 identifies the 95 colleges with policies meeting the criteria established by the…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Community Colleges, Educational Quality, Evaluation Criteria
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1986
Monitoring is an ongoing and systematic activity which provides school districts, private schools, private Early Childhood Services operators, and Alberta Education with information needed to determine whether policies and programs are being implemented as planned, are meeting basic Provincial requirements, and what improvements are needed.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Provincial and Territorial Government Responses to Behaviorally Disordered Students in Canada--1988.
Peer reviewedDworet, Donald H.; Rathgeber, Arthur J. – Behavioral Disorders, 1990
This study describes current provincial/territorial responses to behaviorally disordered students in Canada, comparing this perspective to a 1981 study. Topics examined include definition, prevalence, services available, standards, mainstreaming, program effectiveness, funding, and teacher training requirements. Recommended actions by…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Delivery Systems, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedGraham, Jim; Barnett, Ronald – Oxford Review of Education, 1996
Attempts to make some sense of the Byzantine matrix of governing agencies, accreditation boards, and the objectives and goals of teacher education programs in England. Significant ideological differences exist between the academic accrediting boards and the governing agencies. Discusses the implications of this for higher education and educational…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accrediting Agencies, Educational Administration, Educational Assessment
Nossen, Robert J., Ed. – PAACE-SETTER, 1984
The bulk of this issue consists of five articles providing insight into various phases of adult continuing education. "The Meliorist Position as a Philosophic Base for Adult Education" (Gordon Clay Godbey) examines these questions about meliorism: should we accept as natural improvement of the human condition, the constant wars, the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
