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Marjorie Cohen; Steve Klein; Cherise Moore – Career and Technical Education Research Network, 2020
As the education and workforce development community looks more and more to CTE to help ensure students are both college and career ready, understanding and using CTE data and research becomes increasingly important. This is the first in a series of six practitioner training modules developed as part of the Career & Technical Education (CTE)…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Units of Study, Data Use, Training Objectives
Steve Klein; Cherise Moore – Career and Technical Education Research Network, 2021
With research as a guide, designing CTE programs that promote equity and help close the opportunity gap is achievable. This is the fifth in a series of six practitioner training modules developed as part of the Career & Technical Education (CTE) Research Network Lead. Designed for CTE practitioners and state agency staff, these modules are…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Research Utilization
Marjorie Cohen; Steve Klein; Cherise Moore – Career and Technical Education Research Network, 2020
Continuous improvement, a structured process for using data and research to improve educational programming, is an important component in creating and maintaining successful CTE programs. For practitioners to engage in continuous improvement--and to use data and research to go beyond accountability--they need to maintain an effective data…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Research, Data Use, Research Utilization
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Akers, Lauren; Resch, Alexandra; Berk, Jillian – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2014
This guide for district and school leaders shows how to recognize opportunities to embed randomized controlled trials (RCTs) into planned policies or programs. Opportunistic RCTs can generate strong evidence for informing education decisions--with minimal added cost and disruption. The guide also outlines the key steps to conduct RCTs and responds…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Research, Guides, Program Evaluation
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Kekahio, Wendy; Baker, Myriam – Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2013
Using data strategically to guide decisions and actions can have a positive effect on education practices and processes. This facilitation guide shows education data teams how to move beyond simply reporting data to applying data to direct strategic action. Using guiding questions, suggested activities, and activity forms, this guide provides…
Descriptors: Research Utilization, Data Analysis, Strategic Planning, Decision Making
National Council of Teachers of English, 2015
The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) represents teachers and researchers of composition and communication in all possible genres, media, contexts, and exigencies; for the purpose of these guidelines, "writers" and "writing" will be all-encompassing, and the term "researcher" will refer to…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Ethics, Research Methodology, Communications
Bickel, Robert – Guilford Publications, 2007
This book provides a uniquely accessible introduction to multilevel modeling, a powerful tool for analyzing relationships between an individual level dependent variable, such as student reading achievement, and individual-level and contextual explanatory factors, such as gender and neighborhood quality. Helping readers build on the statistical…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Social Sciences, Statistical Analysis, Structural Equation Models
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Brinkman, Paul T.; Teeter, Deborah J. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1987
Institutional comparison groups can be selected in several ways, depending on the comparison issue. The method chosen involves both technical and political considerations. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Higher Education
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Boruch, Robert F.; Wortman, Paul M. – 1983
The Project on Secondary Analysis directed its attention to methodology and policy issues, focusing on reanalysis of existing data (1979-82)--surveys, program evaluations, etc.--as a vehicle for learning how to improve methods of obtaining and analyzing data, designing program evaluations, and constructing policy to enhance the quality and utility…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization
Johnson, Terry – 1986
This guide is intended to assist states and service delivery areas (SDAs) in addressing the new oversight responsibilities and opportunities stipulated by the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) with respect to implementing net impact evaluations. The following topics are covered in the individual chapters: the objectives and major provisions of…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Processing
Goldsamt, Milton R.; And Others – 1983
Third in a series, the monograph summarizes the key evaluation issues, design approaches, and statistical techniques used in conducting the 1980-1983 impact evaluation of Indian Education Act Title IV Part A programs. The monograph describes the major problems in evaluating the program to determine the degree of its positive contribution to…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods
Lehman, Christine B.; And Others – 1986
The purpose of this guide is to provide local Head Start program decision-makers with a tool that will be useful in developing needs assessments appropriate to their communities, whether urban or rural. Although the guide focused on community needs assessments for planning mainstream services for children with handicapping conditions, its…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Community Surveys, Data Collection, Data Interpretation
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Clagett, Craig; Kerr, Helen – Planning for Higher Education, 1993
Successful college enrollment management requires information about the institution's image, effectiveness of recruiting activities, role of financial aid, student persistence, and alumni success. Enrollment managers must review the literature, develop a performance monitoring system, construct longitudinal cohort tracking files, identify student…
Descriptors: College Admission, College Planning, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Middaugh, Michael F.; And Others – 1994
This book provides conceptual and practical strategies for the data and information collection and analysis needs of a diverse group of institutions, ranging from small rural community colleges to large urban research institutions. The model framework is designed for use by any size or type of institution and gives a broad overview of various…
Descriptors: Audits (Verification), Colleges, Data Analysis, Data Collection
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McPherson, Maggie; Nunes, Miguel Baptista – International Journal of Educational Management, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report on a research project that identified organisational critical success factors (CSFs) for e-learning implementation in higher education (HE). These CSFs can be used as a theoretical foundation upon which to base decision-making and strategic thinking about e-learning. Design/methodology/approach: The…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Focus Groups, Data Analysis, Success
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