Management by objectives process used as a system for writing end of year reports and evaluating occupational education programs. (SN)

Measures of student attitude used to determine whether changes made during the formative evaluation of a computer assisted instruction (CAI) course and a new mobile CAI delivery system were viewed as improvements by persons taking the course via the delivery system indicated that the changes generated through the formative evaluation were viewed…

A discussion of some of the causes of deficiencies in evaluation and the contention that the administrator can help improve its quality by being other than a passive participant in the evaluation process. (Author/RY)

Attempts to present a methodology for evaluating potential for supervisory positions among a group of individuals labeled disadvantaged, by means of simulation exercises. (Author/DR)

The article presents a matrix technique to evaluate how technical training prepares a person to perform defined tasks after graduation from a training program. (Author)

Computerized think tanks can reach decisions more efficiently than the standard committee meeting method. (Editor)

This article describes a new program directed toward preparing principals to function as change agents in elementary and secondary schools in Appalachia. Program evaluation procedures that include cost effectiveness analysis based on Bayesian statistics are described in detail. (JH)

Three major stages are outlined for conducting evaluations of nontraditional programs: the preoperational stage, the implementation stage, and the post-operational stage. Utilization of the model in evaluating the Master of Liberal Studies Program at the University of Maine is described. (Author/MLW)

Analysis of the assumptions underlying the stakeholder approach to evaluation combined with the limited experience in testing the approach reported in this volume, suggests that some claims are cogent and others problematical. (Author)