In adult education, there are seven essential activities if evaluation is to have maximum use: understanding, specifying, describing, comparing, judging, valuing, and influencing. It is also necessary to understand the objectives being evaluated--their level (agency, program, project or course, and/or instructional) and kind (output objectives or…

This manual was conceived as a reference guide for Illinois' 18 library systems to use in their long-range planning and evaluation program. Section 1 of the manual explains the planning model: Context Input Process Product (CIPP). CIPP was selected as a coherent adaptation and modification of many previous planning and design methods: systems…

Arranged like an encyclopedia, this book, addressed to directors and sponsors of education/training programs, as well as evaluators and those studying to become evaluators, unifies and systematizes the field of evaluation by organizing its main concepts and techniques into one volume. Researched and documented articles, contributed by recognized…

Presented is a report of a joint study project of an aerospace company and California's Office of Compensatory Education. The project's goals were to (1) explore the impact of facets of compensatory education on some neighborhood problems; (2) offer a communication link between school personnel and the Office of Compensatory Education; (3) use a…

The sector approach to analysis of nation-wide learning services is a means of viewing all aspects of national development from the perspective of human resources. Such an approach requires a descriptive national profile; an analysis in terms of dynamics, output, goals, and constraints; a strategy to achieve the goals; and a plan to actualize…