Vocational Education. Information on the National Research Center's Grant Award Process. Report to Congressional Requesters.

Institution	General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources.
Titel	Vocational Education. Information on the National Research Center's Grant Award Process. Report to Congressional Requesters.
Quelle	(1988), (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Educational Research; Eligibility; Evaluation Criteria; Evaluation Methods; Grants; Postsecondary Education; Site Selection; Vocational Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Eignung; Grant; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung
Abstract	The process of awarding the grant for the National Center for Research in Vocational Education, as authorized by the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act, began in November 1986 with the announcement of the grant competition and culminated on January 4, 1988, with the University of California at Berkeley being selected for the 5-year grant over Northern Arizona University and Ohio State University (where the National Center had been operating under a grant that expired on January 15, 1988). To stimulate competition, the Department of Education awarded planning grants to four institutions that had applied to enter the competition for the National Center (Berkeley, Ohio State, Northern Arizona University, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University). The first three of these institution eventually completed the grant application process. Five field readers were selected by the acting assistant secretary to read and score applications on the basis of published evaluation criteria. Based on these evaluations, Ohio State received the top ranking, followed by Berkeley and Northern Arizona. About a month later, the field readers made site visits to the three applicant institutions. Ohio State and Northern Arizona provided tours of the facilities that would be used for the National Center, whereas Berkeley officials did not. Instead, they discussed their plans for the National Center facilities that would eventually be developed by subcontracting institutions. Afterward, the field readers revised their scores. This adjustment resulted in increases of 2.4, 13.2, and 9.2 points in the respective scores of Ohio State, Berkeley, and Northern Arizona. The assistant secretary then recommended that Berkeley receive the grant because it had the highest score. (MN)
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC