The Peer Evaluation Program (PEP) has been instituted by the Division of Special Education, Pennsylvania State Department of Education, to allow intermediate units an opportunity to continuously improve their programs. The advantages of the PEP system are: (1) it is a self-improvememt system of program development; (2) PEP allows local autonomy as…

Participant observation is a research and evaluation strategy in dealing with complex educational settings, organizations, and curricula is explored. Three alternative models are presented. The first is a general structural model involving three research strategies: an experimental design with pretests and posttests; a social survey with…

To attempt to assert that assessing educational need is a concept new to education would be naive. On the other hand, there is little question that this most critical component of planning and decision-making has over the years largely been left to the somewhat capricious whims of intuition and educational "guessmanship." This paper is a…

This paper discusses the use of student performance data as an input to the last phase of a needs-assessment evaluation. The weaknesses for this purpose of national pupil norms are examined and it is suggested that improved data is required to reflect the many differences that exist between schools. Specifically, two changes are proposed: the…

The ten goals of quality education formulated as the basis for the assessment program of the Pennsylvanis Department of Education are presented in detail. This section of Phase II of the Pennsylvania Plan (see TM 000 608) is intended to provide school district personnel with a rationale for measurement within each goal area and a summary of the…

This is a report of the final year of a 3-year project to develop a sequential early childhood education program to meet the unique needs of 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old migrant Mexican American children. The bilingual program's major components are instructional materials, staff development, and parent-school-community involvement. Ninety children…

Two projects that have explored the feasibility of computer-generated verbal score reports for the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills are reported. The first, the Madison Project, designed, produced, and evaluated computer-generated testing reports that were useful to teachers and informative to parents. The reports, which were narrative in format, were…

Suspecting that two-year public colleges are more committed to instructional media programs than four-year institutions and that higher educational institutions in general are lacking in commitment to media programs, the author surveyed thirty-four Kansas colleges and universities by using the Evaluative Checklist for Self-Evaluating an…

The general objective of this study is to assist in the improvement of compensatory education programs in Massachusetts through modifications of current programs based on evaluations specific enough to permit the formulation of concrete recommendations for improvement. A 10 percent sample of projects was chosen for study as theoretically…

Findings of Phase I (Pilot Program) of the Pennsylvania Assessment of Educational Quality program are presented in relation to the design of the phase, the rationale for measurement, the procedures for data collection and data processing, and the results of the first analysis of the data. Tests were given to 1413 fifth graders and 1285 eleventh…

Numerous facets of curriculum evaluation are discussed. Recent developments in evaluation, characteristics of evaluation and evaluators, and specific characteristics of curriculum evaluation are examined. Several curriculum evaluation models are studied. (DG)

A number of issues related to the development of evaluation methodology are discussed. These issues are as follows: the definition of the purpose, general strategies for the development of methodology, and methodological research. The evaluation methodology developed is for the purpose of providing data for decision making. Some specific…

The procedures used in the initial development of a Mathematics Laboratory within the Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) Mathematics Program are reported. The thesis of the report is that in the development of educational programs, especially those which are complex, attention should be directed both to the design of the program and the…

This module attempts to develop the abilities of school personnel to find out precisely what in a school situation needs to be evaluated. Its main purpose is to foster the development of relevant questions. Specifically, this module focuses on the following terminal objective: satisfactorily identify and order the evaluation priorities in a given…

This document presents a model for a program to guide teachers in effective self-evaluation. In this structured program, the teacher is expected to write course, unit, and daily lesson plans incorporating behaviorally stated objectives, which communicate his or her instructional intent. With the help of a trained observer-evaluator, the teacher is…