We evaluate how the U-Links Centre for Community-Based Research (U-Links), a nonprofit organization that brokers research for community-based organizations with postsecondary institutions in Haliburton County, Ontario, has impacted this rural region of Ontario. Our approach uses contribution analysis and realist evaluation as layered tactics…

This article describes the results of a qualitative case study evaluating a research mentorship program in community care settings in Ontario, Canada. The purpose of the program was to build evaluation and research capacity among staff of community care agencies through a mentorship program. Data were collected through in-depth, semi-structured…

The study of PASS 2 (program analysis of service systems) had two aims: to investigate the internal statistical properties of the evaluation instrument and to compare the relative quality (as measured by PASS 2) of services to the mentally retarded delivered in community versus institutional settings, to different age groups, in several human…

Student perceptions of the quality of student services differ significantly from the perceptions of personnel providing services. This article reports findings of a study designed to identify where differences of perception exist. Generally, student perceptions correspond more closely to those of instructors than to those of student services…

Resources in Education was computer searched in order to identify documents which reported evaluation research carried out by forty large school districts in the United States and Canada. The citations are grouped by the name of the reporting school district. Each of the 149 references is abstracted and a subject index is provided. (MV)

Limited to documents announced in Resources in Education from April 1977 to March 1978, this annotated bibliography covers a broad spectrum of reports generated directly or indirectly by 66 large school districts in the United States and Canada. The reports include descriptions and evaluations of bilingual, early childhood, compensatory, and…

This evaluative report provides information about a remedial reading program in a Canadian school district. Various sections of the report deal with the following areas: the purpose of the evaluation project; procedures and sample; major findings according to remedial reading teachers, two groups of taxpayers, remedial reading pupils, and…

The overview of the research and evaluation activities sponsored or conducted by the larger school systems in the United States and Canada provides references to studies in areas of concern to educators today. As an index to research and evaluation efforts, this annotated bibliography will facilitate the exchange of information by local school…

This 142-item annotated bibliography, limited to documents announced in Resources in Education from April 1978 to January 1979, cites reports generated directly or indirectly by 47 large school districts in the United States and Canada. The reports include descriptions and evaluations of career education, compensatory, bilingual, special…

This report summarizes 10 recommendations made by a select committee of Deans of Education from Alberta (Canada) universities for a model for preparing teachers in the province. Comments on the expected implications of each recommendation are provided. Recommendations were made in the areas of: (1) philosophy of teacher education; (2) entry…

The status of health services components of master's degree programs in health services administration is described. Included are student coursework in related subjects such as quantitative methods, statistics, program evaluation, research design, operations research, and systems analysis, as well as student and faculty research. A general survey…

Graduate students in a program evaluation class carried out small case-study evaluations, and examined the participants' reactions to the evaluation report. The programs included an experimental high school drama course, a high school music apprenticeship program, and a sixth grade computer course on problem solving. There were three phases of…

This bilingual directory of research (1963-68) in the development of adult human resources in Canada indicates types of projects undertaken, principal objectives, institutions involved, amounts and sources of funding. It also shows which areas of research have been well covered, those with little or no coverage, and those which might be given a…

Changes within Offices of Research in Medical Education are reported, based on surveys conducted in 1979 and 1983. Thirty-nine of 53 offices responded. Most were state-supported institutions: 32 were U.S. medical schools, and 7 were Canadian schools. Office directors provided information on goals, organizational relationships, funding, effort…