This paper examines a group project module on the final year of an Information Technology degree programme at St. Martin's College, now the University of Cumbria. The paper outlines the nature and purpose of the module and then discusses a research project that has been scrutinising different aspects of the work. It offers some further reflections…

Reports the results of a three-stage evaluation of "Monetary Economics," an undergraduate credit course offered to external or distance students of the University of Queensland in 1979 and 1980. Twenty-eight references are listed. (Author/LLS)

This report evaluates an ongoing competency-based teacher education project involving two local colleges and two school districts. Following indepth interviews with selected project personnel, 1 66-item questionnaire was constructed covering the following six basic areas of concern: (a) program orientation, (b) program objectives, (c)…

This study used the Bayesian Theorem and cost/effectiveness analysis to measure the short and long range effectiveness and minimum costs of individualized instructional units constructed by educational development officers for use with low-income students at four North Carolina technical institutes designated as developing institutions. Students…

The teaching module contains questionnaires, a form for combining questionnaire responses, and seven data sheets dealing with costs and benefits of rearing children in the United States. Intended for use by students from junior high school through college, the materials encourage students to clarify their attitudes toward parenthood, help them…

This module is one of a series of learning modules designed to help vocational education administrators to improve their skills. The module addresses two types of information-gathering or inquiry skills that will help an administrator collect information for decision making: (1) developing and using questionnaires and structured interview…

This document presents a training module designed to help adult literacy program providers in New York and elsewhere to use the principles of social marketing to improve recruitment and retention in adult education programming. Literacy program providers are taught to view the social marketing process as a process of exchange between themselves as…

To determine the role of vocational education in enhancing private sector productivity in the Sedalia, Missouri area, the feasibility of a program to assist business and industry in productivity awareness, assessment, and improvement was evaluated. Based on data from six area business and industry representatives who agreed to complete a survey…