This study reports the results of a year-long curriculum evaluation involving a university research office, lay committees, and a district faculty in an atmosphere highly charged with controversy. Studies were made of a number of components of the school, and a comprehensive community survey of attitudes was conducted. An analysis of the attitudes…

This paper presents a paradigm for designing evaluation research studies that permits examination of the effects of curriculum, instruction, and instructional materials on the learning environment as the determinants function independently, as they relate to one another, and as they interact in complex ways in the naturalistic setting. The…

This paper discusses some approaches to the evaluation of social environments of learning that extend traditional evaluation beyond what intelligence and standardized achievement tests capture as the outcomes of schooling. Students can provide an important judgement or perspective on the suitability of the social environment as shaped by…

This paper reports the results of a comprehensive curriculum evaluation of an academy founded to assist black drop-outs. Designed to determine the effects of the educational program on the student body and to lay bare the major constructs in the instructional and curriculum designs, the study employed a modified Shufflebeam curriculum evaluation…

Design and implementation of a curriculum evaluation plan for the vocational education program (occupational education under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act) of a large correctional system are described. An outside evaluator assisted in designing and conducting the first year's evaluation. The 1991-92 curriculum used was…

The results of a comprehensive curriculum evaluation of the Christian Action Ministry (CAM) Academy, which was founded to help black dropouts complete their high school education and secure college placement are reported. The CAM Academy requested the assistance of the University of Illinois in undertaking a comprehensive curriculum evaluation to…

The results are reported of a follow-up study conducted on an experimental middle school curriculum initiated by a school district as an alternative to the traditional curriculum. The outcomes of the original experiment were favorable to the experimental curriculum. An evaluation design common to true experiments where subjects are randomized for…

The purpose of this three-year evaluation was to determine the effects of a newly designed curriculum for early adolescents. From a pool of 600 applicants, students were randomly assigned to the new curriculum school and to traditional schools curriculum. A number of measures of the implementation of the curriculum and its effects on students were…

This case study recounts the attempts of two school districts to improve decision making on the adoption of a new elementary social studies curriculum by using formal evaluation methodology. The study's main objective was to develop a series of criterion referenced (mastery level) tests from a list of social studies objectives to determine whether…