A process assessment was conducted to determine the effectiveness of the procedure used by the Bureau of Occupational and Adult Education, U.S. Office of Education (USOE), in conducting State Management Evaluation Reviews for Compliance (MERC) with Federal legislation and regulations governing public vocational and adult education programs. The…

A comprehensive three-level program evaluation plan assesses overall impact of early intervention programs through assessment of children's progress toward developmental milestones; quarterly child progress through administration of a program-relevant, criterion-referenced tool; and weekly child progress toward specific instructional objectives by…

In the late 1990s the Texas Education Agency advocated the transformation of all counseling services into developmental guidance programs. This document describes the process undertaken and the lessons learned when evaluating a small, rural school district in north Texas in order to begin this model transformation. The purpose of the study was to…

Examines several systems developed to evaluate state vocational education programs, notes evaluation requirements of the Education Amendments of 1976, Title II, and presents results from a survey of state evaluation systems. Includes implications of the current emphasis on evaluation of three groups: state staff, business education teachers, and…

A method of designing and evaluating internship and cooperative education programs between colleges and industry is presented. The approach accomplishes college objectives of academic progress and positive community relations while allowing the student to develop skills and marketability. The principles presented have application to many…

The advertising program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) has at least 12 measures of program assessment, which serve as a basis for discussion rather than as a prescription for an effective assessment program. The program assessment methods are accrediting, internal program review, teaching evaluations, a university survey of…

Evaluations of the Botswana National Literacy Program (BNLP) are reviewed, with emphasis on one internal and one external evaluation. The BNLP may be one of the most extensively evaluated national literacy programs ever conducted, with a program staff intensively trained in evaluation. One lesson of the repeated evaluations of the BNLP is that a…

Analysing Training Evaluation of the Worth of Training (TEOT) data collected in Successive Intervals Scaling procedures makes possible a more realistic assessment of input TEOT data, and enables training executives to improve their decision making at very low cost. (SA)

The evolution of the social indicators movement is described, focusing particularly upon the split between those who hold that indicators are statistical time series for the measurement of social change and those who look to social indicators for evaluations of government programs. In addition to discussing these two positions and their impact on…

This manual briefly reviews the major guidelines for a Title I evaluation plan using the norm-referenced evaluation model, Model A-1. Designed to help local school district personnel responsible for Title I evaluation activities, the manual can be used as a quick check of present evaluation activities or as a planning guide for future activities.…

The focus of this report is the Direct Instruction Supervision Code, developed to assess the degree of implementation of the Direct Instruction Follow Through Model. Most of this paper deals with the development, reliability, concurrent validity, and criterion-related validity of the code, which is a classroom observation instrument. The report…

This paper argues that measuring the degree of implementation is important if causative statements about effects of an innovation are to be made. It identifies four classes of problems which impede such measurement: the purpose problem, the local adaptability probelm, the scalor problem, and the innovation completeness problem. An understanding of…

A generalized evaluation model (GEM) has been developed to evaluate primary prevention program impact. The GEM model views primary prevention dynamically; delineating four structural components (program, organization, target population, system) and four developmental stages (initiation, establishment, integration, continuation). The interaction of…

This booklet has been prepared to guide the implementation, operation, and evaluation of the field tests of the Creating a Career program. This field test guide describes the preparation needed for a field test, (acquiring materials, choosing the instructor, registration, scheduling the field test, preparing the classroom, orientation of other…

The paper distinguishes between short-term and long-term evaluation designs and discusses the usefulness of long-term designs for the assessment of the effects of career education programs directly and for the validation of short-term designs for the evaluation of these programs. (Author)