The objective of this study was to adapt the ideas of "strong inference" in developing a design procedure which can be used in the evaluation of an instructional system in such a way as to identify and correct specific weaknesses within a system. This method allows the evaluator to consider many hypotheses as possible causes of system…

The outline, steps, prodecures, methods, and format of a planned evaluation of the United States Army's Computerized Training System (CTS) are given. The evaluation is built into the CTS project and will have both summative and formative aspects. The three main areas to which the evaluation is directed and for which specific evaluation plans are…

Measures of attitude, academic achievement, and social and personality variables were employed in a year-long evaluation of progress and outcomes of open education and traditional education groups. Data were analyzed by multivariate analysis of variance and discriminant function techniques, using means of teacher ratings as the "success"…

Career decision-making, a recently initiated program now in its design and engineering state, is described. Early interaction between the product development process and the evaluation process has served several purposes. Evaluation specialists have contributed information to be used in program development as well as tentative plans for summative…

Two versions of the Assessing the Behavior of Caregivers (ABC-I, ABC-II) Rating Checklist were developed. These instruments were designed to assess infant environments by studying actual ongoing behaviors, as opposed to idealized stated objectives of programs or psychometric criterion scores of the infants. The checklists were created to (1) be…

The twentieth Western Regional Conference on Testing Problems dealt with the issues of assessment/accountability and non-traditional programs. The following speeches were given: (1) "The New Approach of the California State Colleges" by Glenn S. Dumke; (2) "Toward Institutional Goal-Consciousness" by Richard E. Peterson; (3) "The Commission on…

Evaluated was a program utilizing aides to assist in the instruction of 40 trainable mentally retarded children in the areas of self help skills, arts and crafts, motor development, and language development. Evaluation was by an external observer for the purpose of providing program planning information. Approximately 70 questions were formulated…

A study of the "efficiency and efficacy" of evaluation practices of the Illinois Division of Vocational and Technical Education as conducted by Educational Testing Service is reported on. The study was directed toward understanding how evaluation practices of the Division, with largest emphasis upon the performance of the Three Phase System used…

Since the inception of the Arizona-Mesa Differentiated Staffing Project in June 1970, the project staff was charged with the responsibility of evaluating the effects of the changes brought about as a result of implementation in three pilot schools. It was found that experimental-design research in an ongoing social system was extremely difficult…

This report reviews and summarizes a pilot program in Tennessee to assist Negroes in obtaining administrative positions in integrated school systems within the State. Five trainees were involved in the 1-year program. The review covers activities related to developing the proposal, the program purposes, the publicity and recruitment efforts, and…

This research project focused on the development of instruments and procedures which a local secondary school evaluating group may use for conducting its own evaluation of the local program of vocational education in agriculture. The report covers Phase I of a four-phase project and presents the development and trial of instruments and procedures…

Plans for evaluation should be laid prior to implementation of a program. A hierarchy of types of program evaluation helps select the exact type of evaluation intended. This hierarchy starts with the easiest (and least useful) type of evaluation and six progressively more difficult levels of evaluation are added in cumulative fashion. The seventh…

Planned Variation was deisgned as a three-year program to assess the implementation of prominent preschool curricula in Head Start and the immediate effects of the programs. Sites used were those in which the sponsor already had a Follow Through program; the research project lacked the necessary control over site characteristics. Consultants…

Teacher educators have been plagued with the problem of devising useful instructional interventions, but often have been unable to assess the quality of their efforts because of the unavailability of satisfactory criterion measures. The application of teaching performance tests as (1) an instructional intervention, and as (2) a formative or…

Following a brief overview of the teacher education center movement in Greater Cleveland, a questionnaire evaluation system designed to evaluate the center is described. The system is designed to enable questionnaire responses from student teachers, cooperating teachers, and center coordinators to be developed into two distinct kinds of reports.…