The inpatient service is a 15-bed facility that provides comprehensive psychiatric, psychosocial and educational evaluation for children aged 4 to 16. Children are typically referred from the emergency room at the general hospital or other local hospitals.
In some cases they conduct educational evaluations solely for institutional program improvement, while in other situations similar activities are undertaken to produce generalizable knowledge of interest to others [ 2, 3].
1: Includes respondents who classified their institution as "other" * p <.05; ** p <.01 Sixty respondents (55%) were unsure if their institutions had policies in place addressing the use of educational evaluation data for scholarly dissemination.
Although there is a large literature on different approaches to educational evaluations [ 11, 12] few innovative interventions for work-based education of health professionals in developing countries have been adequately evaluated.
This could appear to the CBO as an unwelcome intrusion into its internal affairs (exceptions for such routine activities already exist in federal regulations and could be a basis for exempting CBO educational evaluations, although IRBs are not always aware of this).
In many cases, children are also seen for neuropsychological, speech/language and educational evaluations.
Mr. Culver is a speech therapist and a special-education teacher for the TheraCare Corporation, a private company in New York that performs medical and educational evaluations and provides therapy.
This article elaborates on the framework and describes implications for educational evaluation and accountability.
Results of the meta-evaluation indicate that the after-school evaluation reports located for the study demonstrated moderate compliance with The Program Evaluation Standards established by the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation but limited use of research designs that support causal conclusions and insufficient information to allow for meta-analysis of program effects.
This research adopted the Stake's Congruence Contingency Model for Educational Evaluation.
