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Hollenbeck, Kevin M. – National Research Center for Career and Technical Education, 2011
In recent work, the author has estimated the rate of return for several workforce development programs in the State of Washington, including secondary and postsecondary career and technical education (CTE; Hollenbeck, 2008). The returns are based on estimates of the net impact of CTE on individuals' labor market experiences and government income…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Program Effectiveness, Education Work Relationship, Technical EducationVocational Education
Glazerman, Steven M.; Potamites, Liz – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2011
There are many ways to use student test scores to evaluate schools. This paper defines and examines different estimators, including regression-based value-added indicators, average gains, and successive cohort differences in achievement levels. Given that regression-based indicators are theoretically preferred but not always feasible, we consider…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Achievement Gains, Educational Indicators
Nyhan, Paul – New America, 2014
Early education has been a growing priority for the Obama administration, and its competitive funding is spurring innovation in this field around the country. In 2013, early education journalist Paul Nyhan, author of this report, conducted case studies of four competitive grant programs that are triggering changes in early education: "Race to…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Federal Aid, Competition, Federal Programs
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Owolabi, Henry O.; Onuka, Adams O. U. – African Higher Education Review, 2010
This study obtained basic information from teachers and students on the challenges and prospects of implementing continuous assessment (CA) in the Nigerian school system. Secondary Schools in Ilorin, the capital city of Kwara State, located in the central region of Nigeria were sampled for use in the study. It employed survey research design…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Pilot Projects, Educational Assessment
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Rostlund, Ausra; Savickiene, Izabela – Quality of Higher Education, 2010
The article grounds the structure of the external evaluation of colleges at the level of the non-university higher education sector, and it reveals the problems met in this process as well as possibilities for their solution: the phenomenon of the external evaluation of colleges is discussed and its concept is presented; the external evaluation…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Evaluation Problems
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Annoni, Paola; Bruggemann, Rainer – Social Indicators Research, 2009
Partial Order Theory has been recently more and more employed in applied science to overcome the intrinsic disadvantage hidden in aggregation, if a multiple attribute system is available. Despite its numerous positive features, there are many practical cases where the interpretation of the partial order can be rather troublesome. In these cases…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Indicators, Case Studies, Measurement Techniques
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Daigneault, Pierre-Marc; Jacob, Steve – American Journal of Evaluation, 2009
While participatory evaluation (PE) constitutes an important trend in the field of evaluation, its ontology has not been systematically analyzed. As a result, the concept of PE is ambiguous and inadequately theorized. Furthermore, no existing instrument accurately measures stakeholder participation. First, this article attempts to overcome these…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Evaluation Methods, Participation, Test Construction
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Helms, Janet E. – American Psychologist, 2009
In defending tests of cognitive abilities, knowledge, or skills (CAKS) from the skepticism of their "family members, friends, and neighbors" and aiding psychologists forced to defend tests from "myth and hearsay" in their own skeptical social networks (p. 215), Sackett, Borneman, and Connelly focused on evaluating validity coefficients, racial or…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Cognitive Ability, Error of Measurement, Test Bias
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Dale, Leigh – Higher Education Review, 2012
This essay is a contribution to the literature of critique of higher education policy and management. It offers a general discussion of problems arising from the proliferation of mechanisms of audit and quality assurance within the context of concerns about dependence on quantitative measures of values. It argues that uncritical dependence on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Anxiety, Quality Assurance
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Ferrara, Steve; Svetina, Dubravka; Skucha, Sylvia; Davidson, Anne H. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2011
Items on test score scales located at and below the Proficient cut score define the content area knowledge and skills required to achieve proficiency. Alternately, examinees who perform at the Proficient level on a test can be expected to be able to demonstrate that they have mastered most of the knowledge and skills represented by the items at…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Mathematics Tests, Program Effectiveness, Inferences
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Stufflebeam, Daniel L. – Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2011
Good evaluation requires that evaluation efforts themselves be evaluated. Many things can and often do go wrong in evaluation work. Accordingly, it is necessary to check evaluations for problems such as bias, technical error, administrative difficulties, and misuse. Such checks are needed both to improve ongoing evaluation activities and to assess…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Definitions
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McNeill, Margot; Gosper, Maree; Xu, Jing – Research in Learning Technology, 2012
Assessment of higher order learning outcomes such as critical thinking, problem solving and creativity has remained a challenge for universities. While newer technologies such as social networking tools have the potential to support these intended outcomes, academics' assessment practice is slow to change. University mission statements and unit…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Online Courses, Teacher Surveys
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Tucker, Virginia M. – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2012
Distance writing programs still struggle with assessment strategies that can evaluate student writing as well as their ability to communicate about that writing with peers at a distance. This article uses Kim, Smith and Maeng's 2008 distance education program assessment scheme to evaluate a single distance writing program at Old Dominion…
Descriptors: Tests, Evaluation Methods, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Distance Education
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Porter, Theodore M. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2012
Ruscio et al. (Ruscio, Seaman, D'Oriano, Stremlo, & Mahalchik, this issue) write of a thing with which scientists and scholars are all too familiar, the assessment of published research and of its authors. The author was startled to discover how little the agenda of the paper seems to engage with factors one relies on for salary and promotion…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Data Analysis, Evaluative Thinking, Bias
Provezis, Staci J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This case study examined the intersection of collegiate-level student learning outcomes assessment with regional accreditation to understand how regional accreditation policies and practices leverage student learning outcomes efforts on US college campuses. To that end, the standards of each of the regional accreditation agencies were carefully…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Accreditation (Institutions), Student Evaluation, College Outcomes Assessment
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