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SIEGEL, GILBERT B.; SULLIVAN, DONALD M. – 1967
NEW AIR POLLUTION CONTROL PROGRAMS HAVE RESULTED FROM THE "CLEAN AIR ACT" PASSED BY CONGRESS IN DECEMBER 1963. THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DEVELOPED A TRAINING MODEL, CALLED "MAPCORE," WHICH PROVIDES A SEMISTRUCTURED ENVIRONMENT, IS PRACTICAL AND REALISTIC IN APPROACH, PROVIDES OPPORTUNITY FOR HIGH CREATIVITY,…
Descriptors: Administrators, Air Pollution, Case Studies, Controlled Environment
Billimoria, Roshan R., Ed. – 1978
Inspiried by a United Nations effort to establish a worldwide university, the four and one-half year project carried out in Thy (Denmark) is explained in this final report, from its historical beginnings in 1973 to its official completion in 1978. Dedicated to the solution of problems which could be considered universal, the project goals are…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Development, Community Education, Energy Conservation
Huber, Jake, Ed.; And Others – 1976
Regional Interstate Planning Project (RIPP) participants meet periodically at conferences Sponsored by ten Rocky Mountain area state departments of education to discuss issues of general concern. A meeting was held July 21-23, 1976 in Denver, Colorado, to consider various means of effecting the educational future through evaluation. Excerpts from…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Data Analysis, Decision Making, Educational Programs
Marson, Arthur A.; And Others – 1977
A one-year cost benefit analysis study was conducted by a consortium of technical institutes, and two cost benefit models were developed and refined for evaluating benefits and costs of full-time vocational technical programs and aidable, noncredit adult education courses. The models were tested on a sample of nine full-time vocational technical…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Research, Educational Finance
Hall, Helen C.; And Others – 1979
A project was designed to develop a methodology to identify, select, and disseminate information on innovations in occupational education programs of Oregon community colleges that were developed and implemented without the use of vocational research and exemplary fundings. A methodology for identifying, selecting, and disseminating information…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Check Lists, Community Colleges, Decision Making
Melaragno, Ralph J.; Newmark, Gerald – 1968
In order to bridge the gap between educational research and practice, a study was concluded to identify specific reading skills which posed particularly difficult problems for Mexican American first grade children, but apparently caused little difficulty for their Anglo counterparts. Seventeen words emerged as being particularly difficult for the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, English (Second Language), Grade 1, Individualized Reading
Bergquist, William H.; Phillips, Steven R. – 1977
The handbook reflects diverse approaches to faculty development gained through direct contact with more than 200 colleges and universities. It contains theoretical background and exercises, instruments, and handouts on such topics as: models for faculty development, faculty motivation, portfolio evaluation, instructional development, course…
Descriptors: Career Planning, College Faculty, Course Organization, Faculty Development
Kay, Patricia M., Ed. – 1974
Provided are some of the proceedings of a conference on assessment of competency based teacher education (CBTE) programs in special education. Presentations by conference participants cover the following topics: research findings regarding evaluation and validation in performance based teacher education (Robert S. Soar); the New York state…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Competency Based Teacher Education, Conference Reports, Evaluation Methods
Christensen, Paul; And Others – 1975
Far West School (FWS) is an experienced-based, career-oriented, alternative secondary program. It uses the entire community as a learning resource to enable students to acquire skills and knowledge necessary to adopt and find satisfaction in adult roles. In the evaluation, important hypotheses were that relative to comparison students, FWS…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Education, Cooperative Education, High School Students
Rippey, Robert M. – 1975
Because discrepancies between individual needs and institutional roles are so often neglected in planning educational change, attention to this dimension may prove worthwhile. Evaluators who have omitted the evaluation of the effects of educational innovation on the total system--not just the students--may find it productive to assume this…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Change, Evaluation Methods
Portland Public Schools, OR.
The document offers recommendations for a planned approach to the development and appraisal of a career-oriented marketing cluster program. The suggested appraisal instrument may be used for self-evaluation or group evaluation. Information on career education in Oregon, the career cluster concept, and the model marketing program concept precedes…
Descriptors: Career Education, Cluster Grouping, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs
Kester, Donald L. – 1974
The Division of Program Evaluation and Research of the Los Angeles County Superintendent's Office provides program evaluation consultation services to all local educational agencies (grades K-14) in Los Angeles County. The three program evaluation services that are described are: (1) Educational Program Evaluation Planning Assistance, (2)…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Consultants, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment
Cline, Marvin G.; And Others – 1975
This volume presents monographs relating to the second annual report of the National Evaluation of Follow Through. Monograph 1 is concerned with site-by-site analyses of academic achievement scores for children after two years in the same Follow Through program. Conclusions dealing with first grade vs. kindergarten effects, site effects, and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Characteristics, Comparative Analysis, Educational Environment
Doeringer, Peter B.; And Others – 1969
In the 18-month study of the concentrated employment program in Boston, preliminary analysis indicated that program analysis was not possible without first examining the operation of the low-wage labor market. Accordingly, an exploration was made of the dynamic relationship between manpower programs and the economic and social environment in which…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Disadvantaged, Educational Background, Employment Patterns
Eidell, Terry L.; Nagle, John M. – 1970
This document reports the Center's current thinking about PPBS and data-based educational planning. In the introduction, PPBS is defined, the usual conceptualization of PPBS is outlined, current pressure to adopt PPBS in public education is discussed, and current efforts at such implementation are reviewed. The second part deals with basic…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection, Databases, Decision Making
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