Training issues can be examined from at least two perspectives: the structural level (macro-level) and the micro-level. Structural issues in the delivery of training include the following: absent or uneven corporate commitment, inadequate expenditures by businesses, degrees awarded by schools that do not guarantee skill mastery, poaching of…

This document reports on Virginia's progress toward the development of model child care programs in rural communities. An introduction providing background information is followed by a discussion of the project model, project goals, quality child day care in Caroline County, and the methodology of the project evaluation. Subsequent discussion…

The Computer Writing Skills for Limited English Proficient Students (Project COMPUGRAFIA.LEP), bilingual special education classes totalling 375 Spanish-speaking students at 10 elementary schools in the Bronx, is evaluated. The project proposed to assist site teachers in developing appropriate lesson plans and effective teaching techniques and…

The New York City Staff Development Program for Bilingual/English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) Teachers and School Building Supervisors was designed to provide public school personnel working with limited English proficient children in grades five through eight with an overview of issues pertinent to the instruction of this population. The program…

The themes that emerge from a review of the literature on continuing education (CE) in the health professions fail either to describe the CE phenomenon adequately or to explain the disappointing results reported from CE evaluation studies. This represents a simplistic and incomplete view of CE and the effects of CE experiences. The major objective…

The study summarizes discussions and conclusions of the Regional Workshop on Monitoring and Evaluation of Rural Development Projects in East Africa (Nairobi, Kenya, April 1979), whose purpose was to share lessons learned from field experiences in managing information for rural development. An initial section summarizes information in papers…

A project was conducted to assess and improve existing field experiences to prepare future industrial arts teachers in Texas. The following activities were accomplished during the project: determination of current field experiences available to industrial arts preparation students in Texas schools; identification of model industrial arts teacher…

This document, one of 12 guides that have been developed to facilitate evaluation by and for local education agency (LEA) personnel in Illinois, covers student follow-up and employer follow-up surveys--activities designed to collect data for use in decisions regarding nearly every aspect of the program. State guidelines for the locally-developed…

This module is intended to help guidance personnel in a variety of educational and agency settings increase their skills in assessing desired outcomes, current status, and needs of program clients as well as skills to assess the environmental conditions that influence those needs. The module is one of a series of competency-based guidance program…

Evaluation of prior learning for the External Degree Program at Florida International University is described. Efforts in the following areas are presented: (1) implementation and evaluation of the competency-based assessment tool, (2) integration of the assessment process with other processes of the External Degree Program and the entire…

This paper examines the historical and philosophical underpinnings of independent living programs and presents strategies for evaluating such programs. Discussed first are issues in evaluating independent living programs. The evolution of independent living services and the mission and goals of independent living are outlined. Described next are…

A project was conducted to design and implement an educational delivery system that incorporated both assessment and instructional services for adult basic education (ABE) exceptional learners in an urban adult learning center in New Jersey. Two areas were considered of priority in developing the project design: the development of an assessment…

This guide is designed to help administrators, program coordinators, and teachers of bilingual children devise more effective ways of helping children learn. The role of evaluation in program planning and execution is described and some general factors to be considered when planning and evaluating bilingual education programs are reviewed. The…

Project Information Packages (PIPs), kits containing directions for the replication of exemplary remedial programs, were field tested in a number of school districts. Based on curriculum analysis and site visits PIPs were found to induce projects which were adequate copies of what was packaged; however, what was packaged was not sufficient to…

This report studies the procedures and effectiveness of evaluation sections in projects approved under the ESEA Title III Projects to Advance Creativity in Education (PACE) program and makes recommendations for their improvement. Nineteen special consultants reviewed the evaluation sections of a random sample of 379 PACE proposals submitted in…