This evaluation report is one of 17 planned for the longitudinal pilot study of the implementation in kindergarten and grade 1 of the Comprehensive School Mathematics Program (CSMP). In this report an overview of the CSMP curriculum for grades K-3 is provided. The goals of evaluation, including specific questions concerning intrinsic merit,…

This report summarizes the activities of the 1969 Vocational Guidance Institute. Each activity lasted one week, the first being a language orientation week. Field activities filled the second week as participants toured plants, etc. During the third week each small group wrote and presented a paper on their experiences. This summary includes: (1)…

An evaluation procedure was formulated to ascertain the effectiveness of an emphasis on the clarity and interest appeal of a composition as opposed to its mechanical correctness in improving a child's written expression. A random sample of themes were submitted to a general evaluation of content by six criteria and a linguistic analysis by nine…

This study described and evaluated a 1969 community development training seminar in the province of Quebec held by the Institute Cooperatif Desjardin, including workshops on such topics as community development ("animation"), economic development, and program planning and administration. Concentrating on the nature and causes of the…

Experimental design has only limited utility inthe field of educational evaluation and, in general, the methodology of the former does not equal the methodology of the latter; in fact, experimental design plays a limited role in the total framework of educational evaluation. Experimental design does have potential utility in the areas of input and…

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the usefulness of teacher rating and observational techniques in the evaluation of a preschool program for emotionally disturbed children. Eleven children (nine boys and two girls) participated in the project occurring within the preschool program during one academic year. Teacher ratings were felt to…

PLAN is an ungraded, computer supported, individualized program of education. This paper discusses the development of this program year by year. The first two years were limited, both in curriculum and content pacing. The third year was much more comprehensive. The fourth year will involve all grades, and will have lessons which are behaviorally…

This review of research and demonstration projects includes only those projects supported by the Research and Evaluation Office. No attempt is made to relate these projects or their findings to projects supported by other agencies or institutions. Further, this review excludes all national evaluation studies, i.e., those studies utilizing national…

The Parent-Child Center (P-CC), in the central area of Portland, Oregon, has as its objective the alleviation of the problems of inaccessibility and unresponsiveness of existing helping services in the area. It is hoped that through P-CC, central area residents, low-income, non-whites, will achieve the following: (1) effective use of available…

Evaluation of the ratio of cost to benefit of instruction must play an important part in the formation of a public policy on education. However, it is doubtful if evaluation is sufficiently developed to play such a role, because evaluation is based on student responses to test items which contain an indefinite bias and cannot be accepted as…

Cost-effectiveness represents an attempt to apply one methodology to decision-making in education. Three recent trends in the behavioral and social sciences are apparent: Rationalization in the decision process, institutionalization of research in education, and the beginning of a general theory of organizational behavior. The problem posed is how…

Content and procedures are outlined separately for social work trainees and their instructors in these two parts of the Saskatchewan NewStart Life Skills Curriculum (prevocational education). The trainee guide provides a basis for learning how to develop and sustain a positive self-image, cope with home and family responsibility, use leisure time…

The National Institute of Education (NIE) funded 18 school districts to implement programs that were to result in 'holistic' change. Two kinds of data were expected --those generated to measure the impact of the Experimental Schools Program and those generated by field studies, which were discussed in other symposia. In measuring impact by the…

Current practices in intercollegiate debate encourage inadequate reasoning and the use of short cuts in debate presentations. Poor debate strategies have emerged. For example, the inclusion, by negative teams, of excessively detailed arguments in constructive speeches has caused affirmative rebuttals to be acutely simplistic or has forced…

Four applications of ordering theory analysis in the formative evaluation of an instructional program which is being developed for retarded children are described. Data from the pilot-testing of this program demonstrated two uses of ordering theory directly related to the formative evaluation of instruction: the testing of hypothesized…