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Autor/in | Adams, Kay A. |
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Titel | Federal vs. Local Control in the Evaluation of Human Resource Development Programs. |
Quelle | (1980), (10 Seiten) |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Monographie |
Schlagwörter | Stellungnahme; Educational Assessment; Educational Policy; Employment Programs; Federal Regulation; Postsecondary Education; Program Evaluation; School District Autonomy; Vocational Education Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Employment program; Employment programme; Employment programmes; Beschäftigungsprogramm; Bundeskompetenz; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; School district; School districts; Autonomy; School autonomy; Schulautonomie; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung |
Abstract | Because CETA and vocational education programs have the potential of serving the important social goals of reducing unemployment and providing the benefit of training, evaluation control at the top is essential. This control can be exerted in a manner that avoids some of the pitfalls of overcontrol through providing more alternatives and facilitating decentralized choice and sampling within this range of options. Providing more options at the national level to facilitate local choice may seem like too much work. However, a steep price for evaluations of these programs is already being paid. So, the question of what it takes to make evaluation results truely useful and used is very important. It is shortsighted to assume that evaluation data can influence national policy without being perceived as relevant, accurate, and useful at the local level. Since human resource development programs are locally implemented, federal initiations can be fairly easily blocked or side stepped at the local level. Consequently, the issue of creating an acceptable balance between federal and local control of evaluations is critical to the long range survival, improvement, and success of human resource development programs in meeting significant national problems. (Author/RL) |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |