Program Evaluation

Interesting Links

One of the best demonstrations of evaluation data (other than Hans Rosling's):

Brain science challenges the logic models we use in most educational settings.

These links provide fodder for 'logic models:'

See also: Other Resources for Program Evaluation

My favorite books at Amazon, on Living, Learning, and Teaching

Success Stories

Why did they work?

High-Performance is not High-Dollar

Kids Build Soyben-Fueled Sports Car

High-school students at risk for dropping out find direction at Georgia factory

Russian programmers beat top American schools

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

MSU Pathfinders Program

MSU Pathfinder program honored for innovative student support (2003)

MSU 'Pathfinder' program creating path to student success (2006)

Margo Elementary School, Weslaco I.S.D. (Weslaco, Texas)

Effective Practices for Hispanic Students in Washington State: Lessons Learned from Texas Schools

Wright's Law: A Unique Teacher Imparts Real Life Lessons

The school's performance.

Planned Innovations

Southwire (GA) hires people to learn. High-school students at risk for dropping out find direction at Georgia factory

The Kalamazoo Promise

The Posse Foundation

Opening Up New "Posse"-bilities (play the videos!)

Exploring the Possibilities

Lafayette College President on Posse

Fixing Problems - Practice

Using Six Sigma to Improve Mississippi's Sportsman's Licensing and Boat Registration Process

Million-Dollar Murray, by Malcolm Gladwell

Compare Gladwell's "hockey stick" to the pattern for corporal punishment in an Alabama school system.

Correlates of Excellent Schools (Mystery Solved!)

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's lecture on learning conditions and "flow."

A few of my favorite books at Amazon

Defining Problems

What's wrong?

Mapping the impact of services on criminal behavior. (1 MB pdf file)

Analyzing school performance and dropout patterns.

Explaining Failures

Why did it go wrong?

Do Performance Measures Improve Performance?

It's not the kids, it's the school, or, why are poor, black kids scoring lower in Huntsville than in Mobile?

Finding Answers

What works? What's the best theory?

What Makes a Solution? Lessons and Findings from Solutions for America by The Pew Partnership for Civic Change

What Works Clearing House (U.S. Department of Education)

National Center for Dropout Prevention (Clemson)

Models for Student Success through Workforce Development and Community College Partnerships

Reviews of Collections of Programs, Curricula, Practices, and Tools: Evaluated According to Evidence (UNC)

National Institute for Early Education Research (Rutgers)

Southern Regional Education Board

Open for Debate

Consider incentives carefully.

Teacher performance pay alone does not raise student test scores

High-powered incentives linked to teacher evaluations drive improvements in teacher performance

How Much Can Children Teach Themselves?

Flipping the classroom.