An experimental program is described which was designed to train non-urban housewives for paid employment as paraprofessional peer counselors. A flow chart traces the origin of the project back to 1969, when the future project director recognized the mental health needs of a variety of non-urban housewives of all ages. The resulting peer counselor…

Covering the time period from July 1973 to July 1974, the report documents the first year of a project to implement career education in the Highline High School in Seattle. A career alternatives model (CAM) to provide each student with opportunities to consider all alternatives is described as a means for student development in self awareness,…

The design and evaluation of a secondary special education program is described. The program is noted to incorporate four phases: Phase-I evaluating the learning laboratory (LL) concept; Phase II-field testing the exportability of the LL concept; Phase III-providing a document explaining how to organize, staff, and operate a LL; and Phase…

The project, conducted from June 1973 to December 1974, was designed to further the development of career education activities in Rhode Island. The goals and objectives of the project were as follows: (1) a synthesis of statewide and national information regarding career education models; (2) development of three model types focusing on the…

This paper clarifies the distinction between evaluating the effectiveness of student curriculum products and evaluating the effectiveness of administrative training products. Four product evaluation designs are described and critiqued along eight interrelated dimensions: the definition of product effectiveness; criterion measures of effectiveness;…

A three-month Federally sponsored program for Spanish-speaking entrepreneurs in the San Francisco area was conducted in 1975 by Amex Systems to examine successful or exemplary education and training systems for minority entrepreneurs, develop a manual for organizing new training programs, and promote the establishment of additional programs. The…

This paper presents a flexible, open-ended, five-stage plan based on task analysis to evolve a longitudinal competency-based teacher education (CBTE) program. Stage 1 envisions broad use of group process in evolving a parameter of generic and specialized teacher competencies within which institutional programs are independently designed to provide…

This paper reports the results of the evaluation study of the Integrated Program, a special education teacher preparation model at Fitchburg State College. Course content is presented during formal learning seminars scheduled at schools in the communities. Students observe professional personnel teaching children and followup their observations…

This booklet presents the inservice model which has been developed through the combined efforts of reading specialists in the State of Missouri and is designed to aid school districts in setting up an exemplary reading program. The contents include; "Rationale of the Model for Reading Inservice," which discusses the impetus that stimulated the…

This report provides a comprehensive model of an optimum apprenticeship program, using survey and interview data to determine the essential characteristics of such a program. The model is intended to serve as a framework for constructing new programs and evaluating existing ones. Subsequent volumes will discuss survey findings in specific trade…

Program evaluation is a difficult task, but it must be attempted in order to provide the decision-makers with a basis on which to judge the effectiveness of the program and on which to recommend improvements. Realizing that difficulties may exist, such as in the unique nature of a specific program or in the lack of adequate measurements of…

Project Head Start and Project Follow Through are jointly exploring the effectiveness of 12 different educational approaches, or models, for the education of young children from poverty families. Investigations include study of (1) the effect of a continuous intervention program which begins with Head Start and extends through third grade, (2) the…

The Brookline Early Education Project (BEEP) was initiated to determine the cost effectiveness of providing comprehensive diagnostic and educational services for 285 very young children and their parents. The primary goal of the program is to bring the family, the school, and the medical profession into a working relationship early in the child's…

A needs assessment is a procedure or process that identifies the perceived or expressed needs of a school district. The process involves the use of various measurements and activities to obtain the data needed to define the gap between "what is" and "what should be." This handbook reviews four such processes or models for…

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…