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Download full textCoyle-Williams, Maureen; Maddy-Bernstein, Carolyn – TASPP Brief, 1991
This brief describes new requirements for vocational education program improvement and evaluation mandated by the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act of 1990. Recommendations to enhance the impact of program improvement and evaluation activities are included. The first two sections discuss developing new state…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Disabilities, Evaluation Methods
Wallace, Teri, Ed.; And Others – IMPACT, 1993
This theme issue addresses current trends and new developments in ensuring that individuals with disabilities have meaningful employment opportunities, especially in the context of recent federal legislation. Stressed throughout is the importance of collaboration among professionals, individuals with disabilities, and family members in achieving…
Descriptors: Adults, Cooperative Programs, Disabilities, Educational Legislation
JTPA Issues, 1990
Achieving good quality in Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) training is hampered by the lack of a common definition of quality. Five ideas have been consistent in definitions: targeting programs; long-term, in-depth training; basic education; work skills training; and supportive services and guidance. A definition must include suggestions on how…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Basic Skills, Change Strategies
The ERIC Review, 1991
"The ERIC Review" announces research results, publications, and new programs relevant to each issue's theme topic. This second issue contains three principal articles: "Issues in Adult Literacy Education," by JoAnn Crandall and Susan Imel; "Emergent Literacy: An Early Reading and Writing Concept," by Carl B. Smith;…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Emergent Literacy, Family Literacy
Peer reviewedWye, Christopher G., Ed.; Sonnichsen, Richard C., Ed. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1992
Sixteen articles describe the status of program evaluation in the federal government by showing how evaluation is organized in the government. A review of evaluation in the legislative and executive branches is followed by a review of the major organizations producing evaluation work. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Evaluation, Change, Cost Effectiveness
Larsen, Stephen, Ed. – Exceptional Education Quarterly, 1980
The issue of Exceptional Education Quarterly addresses several major issues affecting the measurement of exceptionality in the schools. (SB)
Descriptors: Administration, Competence, Culture Fair Tests, Disabilities
JTPA Issues, 1990
The first three steps to developing a program that is both effective and efficient are participant selection, recruitment, and assignment. They require thinking about the populations to be targeted, considering how to open the door to the population and how to get the population in the door, and determining the services that are needed. The Job…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Educational Quality, Employment Programs
Liaison Bulletin, 1996
This newsletter theme issue presents highlights from the "Seventeenth Annual Report to Congress" on the implementation, impact, and effectiveness of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). It presents 19 tables and 1 figure reproduced from the annual report. The issue covers: (1) funding for IDEA Part B and Chapter 1 of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Intervention, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Burry, James – Evaluation Comment, 1979
Two topics are discussed in this publication: evaluation needs in bilingual education, and desegregation and the rights of Hispanic students. Evaluation needs in bilingual education were identified from three sources; a review of federal and state legislation for the design and evaluation of bilingual education, including program implementation…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingual Teachers, Desegregation Litigation
Bourland, Eric, Ed. – NICHCY Transition Summary, 1996
This issue consists of a collection of articles that focus on the types of skills and programs that youth with disabilities need to travel independently. Articles include: (1) "An Introduction to Travel Training" (Margaret M. Groce) discusses the support for travel training provided by the Americans with Disabilities Act and the…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Adult Basic Education, Child Rearing, Civil Rights Legislation
Schrader, William B., Ed. – New Directions for Testing and Measurement, 1979
This conference was organized around four policy concerns: (1) the needs of handicapped, gifted, and bilingual students; (2) the use of test results to allocate federal compensatory education funds; (3) the validity of minimum competency testing; and (4) the demand for increasingly sophisticated evaluations. Garry L. McDaniels discussed the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Accountability, Bilingual Students, Compensatory Education
