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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED193218 AUTHOR:
TITLE: Design of a Plan for Evaluation of the National
Institute of Education's Program to Increase the
Participation of Minorities and Women in Educational
Research and Development. Final Report.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1980
NOTE: 73 p.
ABSTRACT: The extreme variability of the 50 projects under
the NIE Program to Increase the Participation of Minorities
and Women in Educational Research and Development
necessitates an evaluation design that is flexible enough
to accomodate significant differences in project
characteristics, yet comprehensive enough to allow
meaningful aggregation of cross-project data for evaluation
at the program level. This report of a program evaluation
method that meets these two objectives is divided into two
parts. Part I includes descriptive overview data on major
project dimensions that clearly illustrate the wide
diversity of the characteristics among the 50 projects. Two
key variables, project orientation and targeted participant
population, emerged as a basis for logical sub-grouping of
projects into a classification matrix. In Part II, possible
methods and timing of data collection approaches are
outlined in depth and potential data sources are reviewed.
The section also outlines a conceptual framework that
focuses on the context and process factors influencing
project activities and potential outcomes. A final section
details a series of recommendations directed to NIE policy
makers, program-related personnel, and others interested in
the problem of increasing the participation of women and
minorities in educational research and development. (CJ)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Data-Collection; Higher-Education;
Institutional-Characteristics; Organizational-Objectives;
Participant-Characteristics; Policy-Formation; Research
Projects
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Affirmative-Action;
*Educational-Research;
*Females-; *Minority-Groups; *Program-Evaluation; *Program
Implementation
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