This report examines some of the issues and practices currently receiving attention in schools and colleges related to establishing an effective means of encouraging the writing competencies of young persons. Some of the suggestions include a shift in instructional approaches as far as elective and required courses are concerned; examining and…

Georgia's Needs Assessment Package, which has many sample forms, includes a procedure which helps to identify short-range and long-range educational needs. This procedure utilizes community participation which broadens the decision-making base and serves to legitimatize actual decisions. It utilizes the opinions of professional educators,…

This document defines a wide range of measures of the outcomes (results or impacts) of postsecondary education institutions and their programs and suggests procedures for acquiring the data needed for each measure. The outcome measures described are ones identified by a survey of institutional and state-level decision makers as providing the…

Presents a framework for academic staff that explains aspects of managing course design. The main activities described are planning, including setting objectives and budgeting; leading, including decision making, motivating, and communicating; organizing, including designing an organizational structure; and controlling, including developing…

Designed for use in the evaluation of Title IV Indian Education Projects (Parts A, B, and C), this handbook presents a methodology for evaluation which has been devised specifically to address the structural and substantive variations among Title IV projects in a manner which is flexible, adaptable, and practical. This handbook is designed to…