The "Developmental Screening Guidebook" is designed as a reference guide on how to best support healthy growth and development of children throughout key developmental intervals and identify children who may benefit from specialized support. Early childhood program staff, service providers, health care systems, families, and communities…

This guidebook is designed as a reference guide on how to best support healthy growth and development of children throughout key developmental intervals and identify children who may benefit from specialized support. Early childhood program staff, service providers, health care systems, families, and communities all play important roles in…

In Phillip Schlechty's best-selling book "Working on the Work", he outlined a motivational framework for improving student performance by improving the quality of schools designed for students. "Engaging Students" offers a next-step resource in which Schlechty incorporates what he's learned from the field and from the hundreds of workshops he and…

Three evaluation packets which can serve as guidelines for evaluation models are illustrated in this document. These packages were designed originally for occupational educators, but editing can make these packets and evaluation forms applicable to any area in which secondary and post-secondary teachers attend an inservice workshop or training…

Maintains that more valid student evaluations of teacher performance on the college level will result if evaluation questionnaires reflect specific teaching situations and student cohorts. The Echo technique (which is based on reflecting evaluative comments in the student's own words) is suggested as a means of producing more valid evaluations.…

This document enables the would be evaluator to witness the evolution of an evaluation form through successive stages of development. Each stage of development is documented by examples and explanations. The subjects of the discussion are: participants' evaluation of inservice teacher workshops, observers' evaluation of participants at the…

An outcome of a study of adult basic education programs initiated three years ago by the Columbia University Center of Adult Education, the evaluation guide with its step-by-step instructions can be used for both formative and summative evaluations of adult basic education programs. Background research involved in this publication included direct…

Guidelines for evaluating postsecondary career education programs in Maryland are provided. The basis for the evaluation system self-study design is a model developed by Malcolm Provus and described in "Educational Evaluation: New Roles, New Means, The Sixty-eight Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part II." The…

Four instruments to be used in developing school library and media programs are included in this package. Two questionnaires, addressed to students, teachers, administrators, and library staff, inventory current services and determine service priorities. Seventeen charts for data collection and a 20-page costing matrix are provided. Instructions…

The Sports Institute for Research through Change Agent Research (SIR/CAR) assists organizations to identify: (1) ultimate goals; (2) the conflicts or obstacles that prevent an organization from reaching its goals; (3) the important tasks of the organization; (4) the individuals and groups that make the organization unique; (5) the influence of the…

This manual for social agency personnel provides specific guidelines on the use and interpretation of an interview questionnaire to be used in the selection of foster parents for children aged 6-12. The 81-item questionnaire, designed for use with applicant families early in the home evaluation process, includes questions about child rearing…

The documented case history is an account of how three teachers handled a prepackaged career education component for grades K-3. The article is divided into three sections: (1) the career education materials they received; (2) their reactions to these materials; and (3) a few guidelines. The materials present formulated objectives, considerations,…

"Modeling Mathematics Teaching Excellence" is a professional development process designed to enable mathematics departments to conduct an assessment of how well their program is meeting the needs of their early adolescent students. It is a modified edition of the Mathematics Assessment Process for the Middle Grades (MAP), a year-long…

The facilitator's guide introduces and explains an inservice program for administrators in career education. Consisting of eight additional modules, the program presents the administrator with an opportunity to examine career education, its implications for educational programs, and the various administrative functions affecting its…

Presents W. Edwards Deming's Total Quality Management method and advocates its adoption in libraries. The 14 points that form the basis of Deming's philosophy are discussed in the context of the library setting. A flow chart of the reference process and user survey questions are included. (MES)