This document praises the Comprehensive Preschool Education and Child Day-Care Act and advocates an equally comprehensive collateral program of research and evaluation. In order to avoid delay in starting preschool and child care programs, the research undertaken should be of the kind called evaluative research in which program and research are in…

The problem of educational evaluation, the various types of evaluation, and the different kinds of models of evaluation systems are discussed in some detail. The educational needs of the students, staff, community, and the Philadelphia Title I schools, as agreed by members of the evaluation team, are listed. A taxonomy of Title I evaluation is…

The purposes of this Newsletter are: to summarize the Consortium's recent experience with the Curriculum Materials Analysis System (CMAS); to report the activities of others using CMAS; and to describe available analyses of curriculum materials, including their prices. Most of the analyses were done by teachers and supervisors in work groups…

The terms evaluation, assessment, and appraisal are often used interchangeably in research on schools and pupils. Guidelines for their use and some of the similarities and differences in their meanings are explicated. The concept of evaluation is narrowed to refer to use of information on pupil behavior. Four separate components of…

Lack of support, both in funds and in philosophic commitment, is responsible for the limited extent of educational research and development throughout the nation. More convincing results of educational research and more adequate dissemination of findings are needed to enable the educational community to use those findings as the basis for positive…

Funded by both public and private agencies, Sesame Street, produced by the Children's Television Workshop, is an experimental series of television programs for 3- to 5-year-olds. The program is considered a complement and supplement to early education since 4/5 of the nation's young children do not attend preschool, but do have television sets at…

Educational evaluation and design are discussed. Five essential steps in evaluation are: (1) define educational objectives in behavioral terms, (2) translate the objective into descriptions of behavior, (3) identify situations in which the designated behavior can be observed, (4) establish an interpretative device which can measure the desired…

An evaluation model is presented for educational decision makers with evaluation defined as "the process of ascertaining the decision areas of concern, selecting appropriate information, and collecting and analyzing information in order to report summary data useful to decision-makers in selecting among alternatives." Areas in special need of…

The purpose of the evaluation is to inform the Leadership Training Institute (LTI) staff how well they performed their responsibilities during 1972-73. The procedures for gathering information on which the evaluation is based include: (1) a personal interview with each LTI staff member; (2) personal interview with appropriate Bureau of Libraries…

An outcome of a study of adult basic education programs initiated three years ago by the Columbia University Center of Adult Education, the evaluation guide with its step-by-step instructions can be used for both formative and summative evaluations of adult basic education programs. Background research involved in this publication included direct…

A guide and handbook for planners, developers, and evaluators of educational programs and products, this book discusses the various settings in which an evaluator commonly works and the many roles he performs. The book divides the evaluator's work into three activities: establishing perspective, planning the evaluation, and analyzing the data.…

Evaluation materials and instructional content relevant to the IVD process for 1973-74 are presented. Section 1 of this report is an analysis of on-site experience of the validators in the employment of the Validator Self-Analysis Forms. Section 2 is Scientific Management Associates Educational Systems Division (SMA/ESD) evaluation of the 10…

Guidelines for evaluating postsecondary career education programs in Maryland are provided. The basis for the evaluation system self-study design is a model developed by Malcolm Provus and described in "Educational Evaluation: New Roles, New Means, The Sixty-eight Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part II." The…

Four instruments to be used in developing school library and media programs are included in this package. Two questionnaires, addressed to students, teachers, administrators, and library staff, inventory current services and determine service priorities. Seventeen charts for data collection and a 20-page costing matrix are provided. Instructions…

Some 3,000 proposals submitted for Research Grants in Education and Small Grants, two of the major topic areas in the 1973 Field Initiated Studies (FIS) program of the National Institute of Education (NIE), are analyzed in this report to identify research features which seemed to receive priority emphasis and to describe some of the methodological…