The report evaluates and describes a series of 18 regional inservice training workshops designed for school psychologists working with visually impaired students. The project's background is described in terms of the need for school psychologists to be trained to work with the specific problems manifested by visually impaired public school…

A leader's guide for the workshop on the overview of bilingual program evaluation is presented, accompanied by a participant's handbook and a workshop text. The evaluation overview workshop is the first of five 4-hour evaluation workshops designed to meet the basic information needs of teachers and administrators with little knowledge of…

The first part of the leader's guide for the workshop on bilingual program evaluation design is presented. The two-part guide is accompanied by a participant's handbook and a workshop text. The evaluation design workshop is the second of five 4-hour workshops designed to meet the basic information needs of teachers and administrators with little…

The second part of the leader's guide for the workshop on bilingual program evaluation design is presented. The two-part guide is accompanied by a participant's handbook and a workshop text. The evaluation design workshop is the second of five 4-hour workshops designed to meet the basic information needs of teachers, administrators, evaluators,…

Presents the College Outcome Measurement Project which can (1) measure certain adult competencies achieved through a liberal education; (2) provide a means for program evaluation; and (3) assist individual students to identify relative strengths and weaknesses in their own array of adult functioning competences. (CT)

This article picks up the debate on the requirements of materials criticism and provides an extensive critique of the Philosophy for Children program, contributing both a description of the program material and a basis for further discussion and exchange on the issue of materials criticism. (Author/MLF)

Two individualized writing programs, useful for mainstreaming learning disabled students into the English classroom were field tested among 100 seventh and eighth grade students in four school districts. The document reports on the results of "Mission WRITE," the design of "Touchstone WRITE," and the strategies used in teaching…

The purpose of this paper is to describe and to evaluate an in-service workshop in family life education presented by the author in Calgary, Alberta, and to identify some of the implications of this experience for other in-service education for family life educators. (Author)

Intended for reading teachers and others involved in the testing or placement of students, this paper describes the development and evaluation of a prescribed individualized reading program. Following an introduction to the program (which allows students to progress through each reading level at their own pace), the second and third sections of…

Discussed is the design, development, and evaluation of a self-paced college program in statistics which used computer assisted instruction. The program permitted a great deal of individual attention to weak students and freed the strong student to whip through the acquisition of the tools necessary to plan and conduct research. (RM)

This report discusses the structures, procedures, outcomes, and evaluation of the Tier One Project (TOP), which was conducted at Los Medanos College from July 1981 to February 1983 to develop general education courses embodying humanities concerns. Background to the project is provided first, delineating TOP's objectives of examining general…

This leader's manual for a workshop on planning bilingual student assessment describes the workshop, presents information necessary to provide instruction leading to workshop exercises, and provides step-by-step instructions for conducting the workshop. The workshop leader should become familiar with this manual as well as with the workshop text…

A general list of suggestions for effective library instruction and library instruction projects in a variety of disciplines are presented in this guide. Developed in a faculty and academic staff development seminar, the Library within the Curriculum Project, these projects illustrate diverse aproaches to library instruction with the common goal…

A 3 year project was initiated to develop, implement, and evaluate a program for training personnel to work with visually handicapped/multiply handicapped children. The ecological systems model proposed by N. Hobbs was examined as the primary consideration in the development of the program. Teachers under the project were prepared for roles which…

This report describes and evaluates the K-12 driver and traffic safety education program at the Des Moines (Iowa) public schools. Four perspectives are evaluated: context, input, process, and product. The school district's mission, the program's philosophy, and the supervisor's viewpoint are outlined. The current program and its course content is…