Evaluating the performance of school principals can be challenging. As we noted in previous posts, principals’ roles are complex and multi-faceted.
This video depicts how a program improvement approach—known as Rapid-Cycle Evaluation—can provide administrators with evidence about what works to improve services.
The evaluation for class 10, 12 board exams will be done by teachers at their homes and 3,000 schools have been identified as exam centres to deliver the answer sheets to them, Union HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' said on Saturday. He said 1.5 crore answer sheets of already conducted class 10, 12 exams will be delivered to teachers.
The recent public statement by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) on the use of value-added measures has a lot of scary language about “scientific and technical limitations,” and lists requirements that they say value-added models should meet. But do these requirements represent the “very high technical bar” the AERA claims it is setting? We don’t think so.
Does high-stakes evaluation scare teachers away? And if so, which teachers? Does this help or harm students? High-stakes evaluation does affect who comes into the classroom and who stays there, and research indicates that this flux may actually be good for students.
This article discusses insights gained from the national PROMISE evaluation about the current transition system, which are relevant to current initiatives supporting youth with disabilities during the transition to adulthood.
Mathematica study will evaluate the effectiveness of the Transitional Care Model (TCM) in reducing rehospitalizations and will promote widespread use of the program in a number of health systems.
This report presents findings from a 5-year randomized control trial of a $120 million maternal and child health project in Indonesia funded by the Millennium Challenge Corporation. The project sought to improve stunting, along with a host of other pre-, postnatal, and early childhood health outcomes.
This case study discusses two federal grant initiatives and the evaluation technical assistance (ETA) provided to the grantees.
This article uses an evaluation of New Heights, a school-based program for pregnant and parenting teens in the District of Columbia Public Schools, to illustrate how maternal and child health programs can obtain rigorous evaluations at reasonable cost using extant administrative data.
This summary presents emerging findings from the national cross-site evaluation for the Regional Partnership Grant program. The program supports partnerships between providers of child welfare and social services to improve the well-being of children impacted by substance abuse.
Interview with Benjamin K. Poulose, MD MPH, author of Evaluation of Wound Photography for Remote Postoperative Assessment of Surgical Site Infections
Interview with Ivo Abraham, PhD, author of Economic Evaluation of Talimogene Laherparepvec Plus Ipilimumab Combination Therapy vs Ipilimumab Monotherapy in Patients With Advanced Unresectable Melanoma
Interview with Sam P. Most, MD, author of Evaluation of Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Rhinoplasty: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis