Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 2 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 15 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 39 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 130 |
Descriptor
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
Location
California | 8 |
United States | 8 |
Canada | 7 |
Minnesota | 5 |
New York | 4 |
Australia | 3 |
France | 3 |
Georgia | 3 |
Kentucky | 3 |
North Carolina | 3 |
Virginia | 3 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Does not meet standards | 1 |
Hewawitharana, Sridharshi C.; Kao, Janice; Rider, Carolyn D.; Talmage, Evan; Costello, Sadie; Webb, Karen; Gosliner, Wendi; Woodward-Lopez, Gail – American Journal of Evaluation, 2022
Schools are a critical setting for improving child nutrition and food security and preventing obesity in the United States. The U.S. Department of Agriculture mandates that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program--Education, known as CalFresh Healthy Living (CFHL) in California, implements obesity prevention efforts that utilize…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Obesity, Prevention, Health Promotion
Barker, Joanne – Australian Universities' Review, 2022
The Australian Government's Endeavour international scholarship program had strategic interests in international education at its core, but uneven and strategically incompatible outcomes emerged over the 16 years of its existence. An unexpected outcome was the dominance of the small Himalayan nation of Bhutan as a substantial beneficiary of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Relations, International Programs, Educational Policy
Bell, Stephen H.; Stapleton, David C.; Wood, Michelle; Gubits, Daniel – American Journal of Evaluation, 2023
A randomized experiment that measures the impact of a social policy in a sample of the population reveals whether the policy will work on average with universal application. An experiment that includes only the subset of the population that volunteers for the intervention generates narrower "proof-of-concept" evidence of whether the…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Policy Formation, Federal Programs, Social Services
Clarke, Gretchen S.; Douglas, Elizabeth B.; House, Marnie J.; Hudgins, Kristen E. G.; Campos, Sofia; Vaughn, Elizabeth E. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2022
This article describes our experience of conducting a 5-year, culturally responsive evaluation of a federal program with Indigenous communities. It describes how we adapted tenets from "participatory evaluation models" to ensure cultural relevance and empowerment. We provide recommendations for evaluators engaged in similar efforts. The…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Indigenous Populations, Cultural Relevance, Program Evaluation
Kelty, Noel E.; Wakabayashi, Tomoko – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: In recent years, several initiatives have been put into place both federally and state-wide to expand access to high-quality early education programs. At the center of these efforts are the tools that measure program or classroom quality. The present study compares the psychometrics of two such tools used in Michigan, the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Preschool Education, Social Services, Low Income Students
Litwok, Daniel; Peck, Laura R.; Walton, Douglas – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
This article estimates earnings impacts for those who completed long-term college credentials (degrees or college certificates requiring a year or more of study) and those who did not in an experimental evaluation of a federally-funded sectoral job training program. The experimental evaluation found no overall impact of the program on earnings,…
Descriptors: College Students, Allied Health Occupations Education, Credentials, Job Training
de Alteriis, Martin – American Journal of Evaluation, 2020
This article examines factors that could have influenced whether evaluations of U.S. government--funded foreign assistance programs completed in 2015 had considered unintended consequences. Logit regression models indicate that the odds of considering unintended consequences were increased when all or most of seven standard data collection methods…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, International Programs, Program Evaluation, Influences
Martin Fislake; Jana Schumacher – Design and Technology Education, 2024
In March 2018, metal construction kits were distributed to all elementary schools in Rhineland-Palatinate as part of the project called "Technikkiste" [translation from German: technology box] to promote STEM education. At the end of the year 2018, three more expansion sets followed. So far, no requests have been made to schools, even…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Education, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Curriculum
Marisa Lally – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2024
This article combines archival research and critical discourse analysis to examine 33 evaluation and report documents that evaluate the effectiveness of the Fulbright Program from 1958-2023. Specifically, the study employs argumentation analysis to understand the underlying ideological strategies used to discursively construct the Fulbright…
Descriptors: International Relations, Political Attitudes, Intellectual Disciplines, Educational History
Caskey, Mary; Christiansen, Bonnie; Hakes, Stephanie; Held, Patti; Hyunjun, Kim; De La Rosa Mateo, Carolina – Journal of Extension, 2019
Reporting requirements for capturing data on the delivery of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) have evolved. University of Minnesota (U of M) Extension developed the SNAP Education Evaluation and Database System (SEEDS) to capture unduplicated participant information for SNAP-Ed programming conducted by U of M Extension…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Program Evaluation, Databases, Data Collection
Abercrombie, Julia; Pann, James; Shin, Faith; Taylor, Elizabeth; Brisendine, Anne E.; Swanson-Holm, Rachell; James, Cristina; Viehweg, Stephan; Chödrön, Gail – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2022
Many children with developmental disabilities are not identified before age 3 years of age, preventing them from being able to fully benefit from early intervention services. Early childhood educators, particularly those in Early Head Start (EHS) programs, are important partners in the early identification of children with developmental delays.…
Descriptors: Developmental Delays, Disability Identification, Child Development, Early Intervention
Vega, Blanca Elizabeth – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand how I--and many other students--became first-generation college students (FGCSs) by exploring the rise and retraction of TRIO. Originally, TRIO was a set of three college access and retention programs created in the 1960s to address the needs of a population designated as academically and…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Poverty Programs
Mintrop, Rick; Pryor, Laura; Ordenes, Miguel – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2018
Evaluators frequently confront situations in which local programs struggle to meet the expectations and requirements specified by the external program funder. How can evaluators meaningfully evaluate programs (for both the funder and grantee) in situations in which the external program logic clashes with local complexities? This paper discusses…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Systems Approach, Evaluation Methods, Merit Pay
Alexis, Torrey D.; Unruh, Deborah; Wang, Wanyi; Dave, Jayna M.; Miketinas, Derek C.; Chen, Tzu-An; Moore, Carolyn E. – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: To determine the impact of a new food scholarship program on nutrient intake and dietary quality. Participants: College students (n = 49), female (78%), single (76%), average age 28 years, and white (49%). Methods: Fruits, vegetables, dairy, meat products and nonperishable foods were distributed twice a month. A one-group pretest…
Descriptors: Food, Nutrition, Health Behavior, Program Evaluation
Jens E. Jespersen; Cara D. Bosler; Ruth S. Slocum; Jennifer Hays-Grudo; Jerry Root; Laura Hubbs-Tait; Amanda Sheffield Morris – Journal of Human Sciences & Extension, 2023
Super Parents is a group-based, Extension-led parenting program developed to enhance the parent-child relationship. Implemented by trained Head Start staff using the train-the-trainer model, this effort is achieved by teaching positive parenting practices, increasing parents' knowledge of child development, instructing parents in activities and…
Descriptors: Parents, Group Activities, Parenting Skills, Extension Education