A review of the literature on training evaluation is presented. An attempt is made to establish a perspective of the current status of evaluating training programs that occur in the industrial, military, educational, and governmental systems. Emphasis is placed on the traditional problem of criterion measurement and a suggested model is introduced…

A supplement to five previous bibliographies, this bibliography provides access to some of the latest research findings or developments in migrant education. Ninety-two documents and 17 journal articles published between 1969 and 1974 are cited. Part 1 contains citations and abstracts which appeared in Resources in Education (RIE) from January…

Resources in Education and the Current Index to Journals in Education were computer searched to identify documents and journal articles which discussed various methods of evaluating the effectiveness of alternative schools and also presented such evaluation studies. The bibliography covers the evaluation of alternative schools at both the…

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)

Documents in this annotated bibliography provide specific instruments and procedures for evaluation of educational programs. Several bibliographies and documents on theoretical concerns of program evaluation are also included, but the orientation of the abstracts as a whole is toward the practical, rather than the theoretical. The listing is…

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 review examines the various undergraduate study abroad programs and the problems involved in evaluating the programs for the granting of transfer credits. The five major factors influencing the credit evaluation decision are enumerated, and their importance is discussed. (MML)

This document is a compilation of articles, extracts of books or articles, and abstracts of material on performance based teacher education (PBTE). It is divided into four sections. The first section contains background material and provides definitions, rationales, and historical contexts for PBTE. The second section has material on program…

Intended for evaluators--whether trainers, psychologists, management consultants or professors--this bibliography samples findings in management training evaluation between 1953 and 1975. It contains 28 abstracts of representative articles from journals in applied psychology and personnel management. Each abstract is a one-half to one-page…

The document is a supplement to "Vocational Education; an Annotated Bibliography of Selected References, 1917-1966 (Below College)." It provides a list of materials which emphasize the evaluation of vocational education programs in secondary and postsecondary vocational education, trends in management and cost effectiveness, history of…

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…

The majority of evaluation reports abstracted in this document were completed by the Research and Evaluation Branch of the Department of Research, Evaluation, and Information Systems of the Dallas, Texas, Independent School District during the l976-77 school year. The abstracts were written to provide useful information to decision-makers and are…

This state of the art review on career education focuses on describing the different career education purposes and programs that have emerged in the last few years of growth, examining the published reactions to these by educators and laymen, and proposing, for the consideration of the staff of the School Based Career Education Program of the…

A summary report of the available literature on research in the principal components of Higher Educational Opportunity Programs, (HEOP) i.e. curriculum, instructional techniques, admissions policies, and others. This paper focuses on the discussions of HEOP's organizational format, materials, innovative educational techniques, and philosophies or…

The Formative Evaluation and Heuristic Research (FEHR) PRACTICUM, a computerized game, gives practical experience in such program evaluation tasks as problem definition, operationalizing objectives, field study, budgeting, proposal writing, data analysis, and interpretation--without the expense and time commitments required by most research. The…