The booklet was developed by the Committee on Criteria for Consumer Education Programs and Materials of the American Home Economics Association as a guide for the evaluation of consumer education programs and materials and for the development of such materials. A series of rating scales are presented, with discussion and explanation, in five…

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…

This report presents the design and results of two evaluation studies of Relevant Explorations in Active Learning (REAL), an instructional resource developed in the Improving Teaching Competencies Program of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. The first study was a users' review of REAL materials and the second, a report of the tryout…

This paper describes an evaluation of the Child Development Fellowship Program at Boston Children's Hospital which was instituted to provide training to pediatricians (Fellows) in the developmental psychology of normal children. The training objectives for the program are listed briefly and the program evaluation techniques are described and…

Many new educational alternatives are being introduced and new methods of assessing their validity have become necessary. One of these new methods, Comprehensive Achievement Monitoring (CAM), designed to monitor the effects of educational innovation, may also be used to stimulate change in the classroom. Traditional classroom testing frequently…

The Vocational Education Act of 1963 (P.L. 88-210) specified that funded programs undergo periodic and regular evaluation to determine if participants are being adequately prepared for employment. A quasi-experimental method for objectively evaluating pilot programs is to use appropriate reference groups in lieu of the traditional experimental…

A series of instruments designed by the Connecticut Association for Reading Research is offered to help a school staff improve reading education by identifying school practices that need improvement. Checklist questionnaires are provided for the following sections: (1) systemwide background information, (2) individual school background…

Volume 2 of three volumes dealing with demonstration of dissemination practices on special class instruction for the mentally handicapped (utilizing master teachers as in-service educators) reports on the evaluation of project activities. A frame of reference on the overall project is provided, and data regarding the effectiveness of the model…

Three critical issues in the design and analysis of evaluation studies suggested at the conference are (1) the univariate versus multivariate dependent variable studies, (2) the choice of a response surface design over the conventional fixed model, and (3) the tendency to interpret every study as if it were being done for the first time. Taking…

This commentary takes no serious exception to Professor Lortie's conclusions about educational changes and issues in evaluation, but it examines certain assumptions. It questions the implications that each school district needs independent evaluation and that evaluation should be applied at the end of a given educational program, and asks what…

This paper is a description and discussion of aspects of the development of a competency-based teacher education (CBTE) program as a joint project of Glassboro State College and the Camden Public Schools. A list of general competencies as established at Glassboro is included in the first section of this paper. Other aspects of the CBTE program…

The document is organized into two parts. The first is designed primarily for use by Maryland Governor's Commission staff for reviewing project applications, justifying recommendations to award funds and working with applicants and project staff to satisfy evaluation requirements. A general evaluation model is laid out; this model is predicated…

The introduction to this paper defines educational evaluation, offers historical details on this facet of higher education, and presents the subject in perspective against the broad spectrum of higher education. Section 2 presents a general overview of practices and literature on teacher preparation and educational evaluation, and section 3…

The employment of judgment as an evaluation tool at the early stage of curriculum development is advantageous. The reasons why this is so are: (1) writers exhibit more readiness to change elements of the program during the early stages of curriculum development; (2) there is great economic advantage in using such an evaluation tool; and (3)…

This document is primarily composed of speeches delivered at the 1973 annual convention of the National Association of State Boards of Education. The opening speech by H. Thomas Jones, President of the Spencer Foundation, concludes that the changing age structure of our population is reducing pressures on educational institutions which, in spite…