This
data file, collected through the Integrated Postsecondary Education
Data Collection (IPEDS) makes available data on enrollment
for all post secondary institutions in the 50 states, District
of Columbia, and outlying areas that are eligible to participate
in Title IV federal financial aid programs.
This
CD contains data from the 1995-96 and 1996-97 Integrated
Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
surveys for approximately 10,000 post secondary institutions.
The
Condition of Education describes the current status
and recent progress of education in the United States. This newest
edition is now available as a web enabled application
to allow for easy viewing and downloading of information.
Evaluation
of distance education programs is one the most important
aspects of managing a successful project.
Evaluation data are the most sought after information by a
number of stakeholders including funding agencies,
students, parents, policy makers, and
public officials.
Evaluation
programs start with:
Posing
the right questions for the study,
Developing
a data collection plan,
Analyzing
the results, and
Reporting
the results to the program stakeholders
Program evaluation is a professional undertaking, and
is best handled by experienced professionals.
In
addition, when evaluation is conducted by a third
party the objectivity, and integrity of its
results are more dependable.
Evaluating Distance Education Courses
Course evaluations
are conducted to find information about quality of:
Instruction
and pedagogical integrity of the course;
Technology
and implementation of the course delivery system;
Managing
of the course, and;
Supporting
students.
There
are hundreds of evaluation instruments for assessing quality
of distance courses.
Remember,
evaluation instruments that have been validated
will provide reliable data.
Validatedinstruments have been tried in test runs on target
subjects to see if critical factors are held up when
actual data is collected.
The
instrument presented here was developed and validated by Dr.
Paul Biner at Ball State University. It provides reliable
data for video-based telecourses. The instrument is presented
here by permission.
Highlights
From
Secretary Riley's Annual Back-to-School Address
The
American High School in the 21st Century
Today,
I want to start a national dialogue on the American high
school
& make a set of recommendations to get that conversation
going....
Many
experts have noted the American high school is one
of the most
enduring & unchanging institutions in our society.
Even
as the
world is changed all around them, the majority of our nation'shigh
schools
seem to be caught in a time warp from long ago...
Yet
today, we still seem to be using America's high schools as
"sorting
machines," tagging & labeling young people
as successful, run
of the mill, or low achievers. We need all of our young
people learning
to high standards in what Alan Greenspan has called the
new
"economy of ideas."
Eric
Clearninghouse for Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
is an excellent source of information for learning more about
program evaluation. http://ericae.net/
Building
Learning Communities in Cyberspace : Effective Strategies
for the Online Classroom (The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult
Education Series) by Rena M. Palloff, Keith Pratt
Dancing
With the Devil : Information Technology and the New Competition
in Higher Education (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education
Series) by
Richard N. Katz (Editor)
Experts
in distance education libraries and information databases
discussed the changing nature of knowledge management
and available technologies and examined how COL and its
Information Resource Center (http://www.col.org
/irc/irc.htm)
can best meet the needs of stakeholders around the Commonwealth.
The results
of the discussions were recently posted on the web,
and can be accessed here.
Distance-Educator.com
› Evaluators Channel
