In higher educational settings, the academic program review process allows academic units to solicit feedback, make data-driven decisions regarding effectiveness and sustainability, and report to stakeholders. In order to discover trends and best practices in the current state of academic program review in higher education, examined was a sample…

This study focused on exploring Illinois community college faculty development coordinators' perceptions about how they are implementing faculty technology professional development programs and providing technical support for part-time faculty in the Illinois community college systems. Also examined were part-time faculty perceptions of the degree…

Junior college self-appraisal techniques should involve research and should be conducted within the academic, vocational, and adult education programs of the college. This report considers appraisal of specific areas, such as admissions, counseling and student personnel services, placement in classes, and program planning and evaluation. Sixteen…

Evaluation in its true concept should be a process for collecting information to make better decisions. The author discusses in detail four planning stages to evaluate programs. The first stage of the process is to ascertain the decision areas of concern. In the second stage, the evaluator must select the appropriate information-gathering…

Comparative evaluation programs developed at the state or national level tend to promote uniformity in course content and method of presentation, and may overemphasize learning in the cognitive domain. An alternative to preserve local variety and innovation, yet provide the same degree of accountability is described. (JO)

The development and field testing of a model used to evaluate the vocational education programs in a metropolitan community college system are reported; it can also be implemented on vocational programs at other institutions. (Author/JKS)

Background/Context: Although the importance of facilitating transfer from community colleges to 4-year institutions is almost universally accepted, there is little consensus on how to measure transfer success or evaluate policies aimed at assisting students in making this educational transition. Despite the increasing attention on transfer in…

Recent concern about academic quality and costs has resulted in growing criticism of the transfer function of the community college. This criticism has arisen, in part, from the evaluations of university-based researchers who have argued that a very small percentage of community college students succeed in transferring to four-year institutions…

While the values derived from institutional self-evaluation efforts are fairly well understood, external evaluation is an important process in aiding an institution in the achievement of its goals; it supplements and complements, but does not supplant self-evaluation. Common functions of the external evaluation component of the Advanced…

Stresses the importance of evaluating occupational programs on a regular basis. Offers a brief explanation of the approaches to program evaluation taken at the Dallas County Community College District (TX), South Puget Sound Community College (WA), and Triton College (IL). Offers a list of references on program evaluation. (CBC)

An educator, a businessman and a student speak out about DVTE's occupational education program evaluation system. (Editor)

The author argues for development of community profiles to serve as the basis for value decisions and a system of participation accounting to evaluate the progress of the community services program. (Author/RN)

Presents an analysis of local vocational education evaluation practices in one state. The investigation identified what evaluation activities had been conducted, who was involved, reasons for conducting evaluations, and the perceived barriers to conducting local evaluations. (Author)

This paper derives its foundation from recent concepts of accountability in education. Accountability presupposes a determination of the goals (i.e. the mission) of the educational component and what constitutes the achievement of those goals (i.e. evaluation). The basic design for the evaluation program described here is the self-study approach…

Provides abstracts of eight selected ERIC documents, each of which presents a model for community college program evaluation and includes a rationale and procedures for conducting the evaluation. (JG)