Search for Success: Toward Policy on Educational EvaluationPamphlet asserting the need for a research policy to ensure efficient utilization of educational evaluation research by educational policy-makers in the USA - discusses the potential role of educational project evaluation in determining resource allocation priorities, etc., and includes recommendations. |
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Page 34 - House resources for information, including the Congressional Research Service, the General Accounting Office, and the Office of Technology Assessment...
Page 2 - Federal programs in education has proceeded on an ad hoc, improvisational basis with little provision for the conditions necessary to ensure adequate quality or valid use of the evidence produced by evaluation research.
Page 2 - ... and bettering the ways in which our government plans, organizes, and uses evaluation research.
Page 2 - Despite the increasing expenditures, need, and significance for mustering the kind of evidence sought by evaluation research, both the quality and the use of such evidence has been quite disappointing.