Author gives thourough treatment to alternatives evaluation purposes and problems. (Editor)

Combining high-speed calculation, a plotter, and engineeering expertise produces a subdivision design more efficiently and less expensively than manual computations. The final product is also easier for the developer to understand and use. (Author)

What criteria should we use in assessing college courses? The author considers we should go further than mere cost effectiveness. (Editor)

A need for evaluation standards for elementary and secondary counselors and guidance programs exists. Guidelines for evaluation should answer the questions: a) what is the purpose of evaluation; b) how should the evaluation be made and by whom, and c) what specific phases of evaluation should be encouraged by counselors. (CG)

Author describes current controversy in England over whether or not personnel trainers should be qualified by standard examinations. He also notes growing consensus" that personnel and training staffs there are behind the times, below standards in other professions and not applying behavioral sciences to industry as fully as possible.…

Six issues in the evaluation of gifted programs are considered: the purpose of evaluation, difficulties in defining student objectives in behavioral terms, potentially unrealistic and inappropriate expectations for the program, lack of valid measurement instruments, and lack of appropriate evaluation designs. (CL)

The purposes of this article are, first, to argue that analyses based on level of treatment implementation can lead to biased estimates of treatment effects, and second, to discuss alternatives to this approach. (PN)

The Minnesota Institute studied the assessment of LD (learning disability) children, including such topics as characteristics of referred children and of those found eligible for special education placement, methods of planning instructional interventions, evaluations of the extent to which children profited from instruction, and of effectiveness…

The method by which the SECTOR project evaluates instructional software takes into account the specific needs of the users and conditions of implementation. It specifies the skills of the evaluating team, the process by which courseware is evaluated, and the reasons why checklist-reviews are not considered satisfactory. (EAO)

A model for program evaluation that was originally designed for use by educational evaluators has been found useful for the evaluation of health care delivery programs. The model provides the basis for comprehensive evaluation and could serve as a useful tool for nurse administrators in the ongoing evaluation of programs they supervise. (Author)

A problem for program evaluators involves a search for ways to maximize internal validity and inferential power of research designs while being able to assess long-term effects of social programs. A multimethodological research strategy combining a delayed control group true experiment with a multiple time series and switching replications design…

Describes the derivation of, and rationale for, the methods used to evaluate a new clinical curriculum at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in London. Thirty-three references are appended. (LLS)