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Clapham, Andrew – Journal of Educational Change, 2023
Educators working in museums, zoos, and botanic gardens are increasingly required to demonstrate impact. These requirements position 'performative evaluation' as the dominant model, one which also acts as a political, non-neutral, and managerial form of accountability. In contrast, 'practice evaluation' is intended to be democratic, dialogic, and…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Museums, Recreational Facilities, Gardening
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Benham-Clarke, Simon; Roberts, Georgina; Janssens, Astrid; Newlove-Delgado, Tamsin – Pastoral Care in Education, 2023
The quality of romantic relationships is associated with mental health and wellbeing throughout the life course. A number of programmes have been developed to support young people in navigating healthy relationships, and a larger role for relationship education was recently formalised in statutory guidance in England. This study aimed to…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Literature Reviews, Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries
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)
Nia LaTese Arnold-Cotchery – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This outcome-based, theory-driven program evaluation assessed the impact of a social-emotional learning (SEL) program created for 1st-year students at Weaver College. The program focused on the development of five noncognitive social-emotional skills (NCSES) identified in college persistence literature as correlates of increased retention and…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Social Emotional Learning, Outcome Based Education, Black Colleges
Vanessa Lynne McWhirt – ProQuest LLC, 2023
High employee turnover in higher education has been an issue for decades, and successfully integrating newly hired staff (NHS) into their new job and the organization can be challenging for human resources and leadership. New employee orientation and onboarding programs can assist NHS. The author of this paper conducted a Utilization-Focused…
Descriptors: Work Attitudes, Staff Orientation, Program Evaluation, Student Personnel Workers
Timothy C. Day – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The mere existence of an articulation agreement does not constitute success for any stakeholders; success should be determined through evaluation (Payne et al., 2021). Wilmington University, a private, non-sectarian university with an enrollment of more than 20,000 students located in Wilmington, Delaware, utilizes multiple types of articulation…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Stakeholders, Private Colleges, Partnerships in Education
Haley Traini; Richie Roberts; Ed Osbourne; Travis Park; Ashley Yopp – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2023
Because of discrepancies among U.S. states regarding how they assess school-based agricultural education (SBAE) teacher performance and program quality, little knowledge has existed regarding how these differences might influence critical decisions regarding hiring, pay, promotion, and dismissal. In response, the purpose of our study was to…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agriculture Teachers, Program Evaluation, State Standards
Merritt, Leslie D. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Student success programming was created to help students transition to the college environment and coursework. While many university-created programs are geared to all students, federally-funded programs and some university-created programs aim to specifically help students from marginalized populations. With Spady's (1970) and Tinto's (1975)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, School Holding Power, Student Personnel Services, Program Evaluation
West Virginia Department of Education, 2019
The State Systemic Improvement Plan (SSIP), WV GRADUATION 20/20, was implemented during the 2015-2016 academic school year beginning with sixty-nine (69) schools in thirty-six (36) counties representing fifty-nine (59) percent of West Virginia's high schools. During the 2016-2017 academic year the number of high schools has grew to seventy-two…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, State Programs, Improvement Programs, Program Implementation
McCarthy, Kathryn S.; Watanabe, Micah; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2020
The Design Implementation Framework, or DIF, is a design approach that evaluates learner and user experience at multiple points in the development of intelligent tutoring systems. In this chapter, we explore how DIF was used to make system modifications to iSTART, a game-based intelligent tutoring system for reading comprehension. Using DIF as a…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Reading Comprehension, Educational Games, Program Development
Buzzeo, Jonathan; Patel, Rakhee; Byford, Morwenna; Takala, Helena; Gay, Robert – UK Department for Education, 2020
In May 2016, Government funding of £80 million was awarded to establish five employer-led National Colleges in key growth sectors -- Creative and Cultural (NCCI), Digital Skills (Ada), Nuclear (NCfN), High Speed Rail (NCHSR) and Oil and Gas. This was alongside substantial investment from Local Authorities (LAs), Local Enterprise Partnerships…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Federal Aid
Etai Mizrav; Lisa Lachlan – Center on Great Teachers and Leaders, 2020
Underserved schools often have fewer resources and less capacity to rigorously implement improvement strategies. As a result, the districts and schools that most need support programs are often least likely to adopt and implement them successfully--a phenomenon that we call the "needs paradox." To address the needs paradox, we created…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, School Effectiveness, Disadvantaged Schools, School Districts
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VanTassel-Baska, Joyce; Hubbard, Gail Fischer – Gifted Child Today, 2019
This article presents the results of a review of eight gifted programs, using the 2010 National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) program standards as one basis for assessing the programs. Each of the six standards is reviewed in respect to the extent that programs addressed underlying indicators. Findings showed that districts met slightly…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, National Standards, School Districts, Educational Indicators
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Parker, David C.; Nelson, Peter M.; Zaslofsky, Anne F.; Kanive, Rebecca; Foegen, Anne; Kaiser, Patrick; Heisted, David – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2019
Evidence-based interventions exist for improving multiple fundamental math competencies, but delivering interventions with fidelity and within a data-driven, tiered framework is a practical challenge faced by most schools. The current study evaluated a math intervention program delivered with community-based resources via AmeriCorps. At the…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Intervention, Mathematics Education, Elementary School Students
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Shek, Daniel T. L.; Zhu, Xiaoqin; Leung, Janet T. Y.; Lee, Tak Yan; Wu, Florence K. Y. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2019
Objectives: Based on 859 student diaries, the present study evaluated a positive youth development program entitled "Tin Ka Ping (TKP) Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social programs (P.A.T.H.S.)" project implemented in mainland China during the 2015-2016 academic year. Method: To understand the perceived effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth Programs, Program Evaluation, Secondary School Students
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