The goal of this article is to contribute to the validation of a self-evaluation method, which can be used by schools to evaluate the quality of their Competence Assessment Program (CAP). The outcomes of the self-evaluations of two schools are systematically compared: a novice school with little experience in competence-based education and assessment, and an innovative school with extensive exp...

Evaluation encompasses the set of tools that are used to measure the effectiveness of public health programs by determining what works. Traditional evaluations in public health have focused on assessing the impact of specific program activities on defined outcomes. Evaluation is also a conceptual approach to the use of data—as part of a quality improvement process—in public health management. P...

Increasing demands for accountability in educational programming have resulted in increasing calls for program evaluation in educational organizations. Many organizations include conducting program evaluations as part of the job responsibilities of program staff. Cooperative Extension is a complex organization offering non-formal educational programs through land grant universities. Many Extens...

BACKGROUND Owing to the global health workforce crisis, more funding has been invested in strengthening human resources for health, particularly for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria control; however, little is known about how these investments in training are evaluated. This paper examines how frequently HIV, malaria, and TB healthcare provider training programs have been scientifically evaluated...

Lazy evaluation of functional programs incurs time and memory overheads, and restricts parallelism compared with programs that are evaluated strictly. A number of analysis techniques, such as abstract interpretation and projection analysis, have been developed to nd out information that can alleviate these overheads. This paper formalises an evaluation model, the evaluation transformer model of...

Use of learning technologies is growing in higher education. Simultaneously, educational evaluation approaches have evolved to be more and more useful for higher education decision-making. Elements of evaluation are emerging which enhance its use for judging higher education programs that include learning technologies. This article reviews several key elements by examining an example of a major...

The Evaluation of Immigration Policies This chapter summarizes the literature on the evaluation of immigration policies. It brings together two strands of the literature dealing with the evaluation of labor market programs and with the economic integration of immigrants. Next to immigrant selection and settlement policies, there are four types of interventions that aim at improving the economic...

BACKGROUND The purpose of the Community Alliance for Research Empowering Social change (CARES) training program was to (1) train community members on evidence-based public health, (2) increase their scientific literacy, and (3) develop the infrastructure for community-based participatory research (CBPR). OBJECTIVES We assessed participant knowledge and evaluated participant satisfaction of th...

Partial evaluation is a program specialization technique that allows to optimize programs for which partial input is known. We show that partial evaluation can be used with advantage to speed up as well symbolic execution of programs. Interestingly, the input required for partial evaluation comes from symbolic execution itself which makes it natural to interleave partial evaluation and symbolic...