This notebook is designed to help educators who are currently learning to design and present inservice programs, educators who are already inservice providers but who might benefit from an overview of inservice theory, and educators who are hiring, supervising, or evaluating inservice providers. It is divided into three parts: (1) Introduction and…

Guidelines are offered to serve as a practical, adaptable model for implementation of a search, screening, and identification process for students eligible for Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) in California. The guidelines cover: catgories of identification; appropriate grade levels for identification; general procedures for search and…

The paper addresses issues concerned with increasing state interest in encouraging public institutions of higher education to demonstrate educational quality through outcomes assessment and reports on the development and implementation of Tennessee's program of performance funding. Emphasis is on guidelines contained within a 5-year performance…

Funded under the Apple Model Program for the Integration of Computers in the Preparation of Educators, the University of South Alabama began a 3-year project in 1989 to train faculty in its College of Education to incorporate hypermedia into their curriculum. HyperCard was selected as a course presentation and development tool because of its…

After a decade of slow but steady progress, the pace of development of technologies to deacidify and strengthen deteriorating books and documents has quickened significantly. These developments accentuate the need for the conservation community to scientifically evaluate the technical merits of potential processes. This draft evaluation strategy…

This General Accounting Office (GAO) report on employment competencies for youth in programs funded under title II-A of the Job Training Partnership Act describes the extent and nature of youth employment competency training systems implemented as of June 30, 1985, and assesses the adequacy of competency attainment data available to States to…

The correlations of each of the 22 tests in the Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation battery with all other tests in the battery are listed. Four fairly large samples are used, each including cases of one sex and a narrow age range. These cases come from a file of 3,555 examinees tested between June 1981 and the fall of 1982. The purpose of…

During the last 2 years (1980-82), selected schools in the Broward County School District in Florida participated in the National Sex Equity Demonstration Project (NSEDP) to create a model for demonstration of curricular materials, educational practices, and program arrangements that feature gender-fair instruction and associated educational…

This paper reports the process by which Anne Arundel County Public Schools evaluated its mathematics program. The steps are outlined by which the evaluation was initiated, designed, implemented, and reported. The procedures developed to address and implement the evaluation findings and recommendations are described. The evaluation was intitiated…

This report concerns an assessment of the quality of life in Family Housing villages at the University of Florida (UF) which was conducted in April 1986. Section I presents survey particulars such as number of respondents (N=1,551) and rate of survey return (85.7%). Section II contains Hansen's Seven-Step Model for needs assessment which was…

A study compared various types of training evaluation methods to determine which method elicited the greatest management support of the training function among corporate managers. A case study approach was used to compare four training evaluation methods: reaction, learning, behavior, and results. The study population consisted of 90 part-time…

A single self-study method for both institutional and program accreditation was developed and field-tested at New Hampshire Vocational-Technical College in an effort to increase the efficiency and lower the cost of the self-study component of the accreditation process. The first phase in the development of the self-study method involved…

Local evaluations of clinical training programs in psychology are generally conducted from a formative perspective, necessitating careful examination of the training structure, process, and results. To learn about and document the extent of local training evaluation enterprises, two national surveys that solicited general program information,…

Essential to the definition of an effective school is an operational definition of minimum academic mastery as the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and concepts that enable the student to be demonstrably successful in the next grade level in the same school or in any other school in the United States. An effective schools program, such as the one…

Intended for teachers of Reading 10 (a Canadian developmental reading course in secondary schools), this monograph provides background material as well as suggestions for implementing the program, which was designed to improve students' strategies for learning from text. The document deals with structural, philosophical, and practical aspects of…