The instrument was designed for an assessment program to assist schools and institutions in determining specific needs of their vocational programs and to provide the North Dakota State Board for Vocational Education with accountability data for use in program development. The form is divided into 12 sections to facilitate identification of…

This Local Education Agency (LEA) Self Analysis Instrument for ESEA Title I is one of the products developed and validated by the SEA (State Educational Agencies) Management of Compensatory Education, a multistate project funded through ESEA Title V-505. An additional product of the project was a LEA Process Model said to support the…

The author looks at three years of effort to measure the effectiveness of the career education curriculum in Ohio. The final analysis revealed that test items should be developed by examining instructional processes rather than stated goals and objectives, to better measure change and reflect what is taking place. (BP)

This State Education Agency (SEA) Self Analysis Instrument for ESEA Title I is one of the products developed and validated by the SEA (State Educational Agencies) Management of Compensatory Education, a multistate project funded through ESEA Title V-505. An additional product of the project was a SEA Process Model said to support the…

This final report of the State Educational Agencies (SEA) Management of Compensatory Education Project was funded by ESEA Title V-505 and developed in cooperation with ESEA Title I. Seven states participated in this three-year, four-phase collective endeavor, agreeing to develop and field test an approach toward improving the management of…

A technique to measure the quality of agricultural extension programs by the clientele was developed and tested. The study was conducted in three major steps. First, unstructured interviews of forty-eight farmers and agribusiness persons in seven Ohio counties were conducted to identify those factors they considered when evaluating their county's…

This is part of a series of modules intended to present guidelines to teachers for evaluation of secondary science programs. It contains the directions for use and the report form. (SA)

Developed by Wisconsin's K-12 Career Education consortium, this kit of career education assessment and evaluation instruments is divided into eight sections. Section 1 provides helpful notes on using the kit and covers the following topics: program development, types of evaluation, organization of the instruments, modification of the instruments,…

The assessment instrument for office education programs is a five-point rating scale for determining how well student needs are met in typewriting, shorthand, and office practice courses. Detailed criteria are listed to be rated on the scale, which can also be used to indicate that the criterion statement does not apply. General areas for which…

This is part of a series of four modules intended to present guidelines to representatives from a community for evaluation of their school's secondary science programs. This module encourages the representatives to review, ponder, and evaluate the science curriculum in their schools for their children and students and then: (1) decide what it is…

A third-party evaluation was conducted as part of a Georgia State University project to provide the Georgia State Office of Vocational Education with the preliminary materials and procedures necessary to further test a state coordinated evaluation system of secondary and postsecondary vocational education programs. Following an orientation meeting…

The practice of analyzing all available project children in as large a group as possible is considered not to be justifiable when distinct subgroups of pupils are represented. Instead, the approach suggested here determines the test score gain a pupil achieves from the beginning to the end of the year, with all of the pupil gain scores of a single…

This paper focuses on a review of data collected from the second wave of a three wave longitudinal study (Head Start Planned Variations-HSPV) designed to assess the relative impacts of a variety of preschool curricula. Head Start children formerly in the HSPV program were tested when they entered selected Follow Through schools and throughout…

This report reviews the progress made by the New York State Education Department and local school districts in developing and implementing a comprehensive student evaluation program for elementary and secondary education. With the assistance of local school district personnel and technical consultants, the department concentrated its efforts on…

This is part of a series of four modules intended to present guidelines for self-assessment of secondary science teachers. This module describes two main purposes for the assessment of interactions. The first is to determine the degree and characteristics of rapport between students and teachers. The second is to show the degree of correlation…