The P.E.P. Report 1969-1973 focuses on the various findings of the Program Evaluation Project. This chapter deals with the first year development of an integrated program evaluation system for the Adult Outpatient Program, Hennepin County Mental Health Service, Minneapolis, Minnesota. This evaluation system is an extension of and expansion of the…

This unit studies enquiry as a type of educational goal and examines ways in which the teaching of enquiry is becoming a key emphasis in elementary and secondary schools. The unit's objectives focus on the definition and requirements for enquiry-focused instruction, a rationale for enquiry-focused instruction, the relations between ideas and…

A model for teaching social studies by the discovery approach is presented. The authors maintain that the temporal inquiry teaching model holds considerable promise for encouraging student enthusiasm, emphasizing higher cognitive levels, and stimulating divergent student thinking and activity. (Author/DB)

Teaching practices in a total of 273 first and third grade Follow Through classrooms were examined in relation to (1) their consistency with the goals of seven sponsors' educational models, and (2) their effects on children's performance in areas ranging from reading and arithmetic achievement to nonverbal reasoning, independence and school…

This research concerns the level of agreement among subordinates reporting to the same leader in their descriptions of his behavior. (Available from the Comparative Administration Research Institute, Graduate School of Business Administration, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242; $12.00 annually) (Author/MLF)

An adult career education model emphasizes life designing and the junctions of a "complete" adult educator. The major goal is to insure student comprehension of what they are doing in their schools and what they will seek to do upon departure from their schools. (Author/LH)

A conceptual framework containing three domains for an administrative perspective on faculty evaluation is presented. The first domain deals with faculty need satisfaction; the second centers on the instructors' work environment; and the third relates to the appropriateness of evaluation instruments. (Editor)

Describes a prototype electronic device that may be used in the classroom or in the laboratory to display pedagogical models and student articulations of target language sounds simultaneously. (Author/AM)

Discusses the appraisal interview as a technique for assessing employee performance. It first covers the organizational benefits of appraising employee job performance; then, using an appraisal behavior model as the basis, describes four ways to conduct an appraisal interview, with emphasis on the most effective. (EM)

Conventional courses in geographical data analysis have major problems of student background, statistical validity, geographical relevance, and intellectual inertia. An alternative approach, based upon the methods of data analysis advocated by Tukey, is proposed. For journal availability, see SO 506 593. (Author)

No significant sex differences are found in the mean level of either educational or occupational expectation, but the distribution of occupational choices parallels the current sex segregation of the occupational sector. Further, relative to academic achievement, females have lower expectations than males. (Author/AM)

There is at present a need to clarify the place and contribution of psychological education in the context of school-related factors contributing to pupil development. Given this need for clarification, an integrated conceptual framework for psychological education is presented and discussed. (Author)

A model is described for teaching German lyric poetry based on landscape and the analysis of oppositions, such as closed and open environments. The method works well with German Expressionism and is suited to instruction by the Socratic method. Use of the model with three poems is illustrated. (SW)

Outlines a model to aid planners of higher education in the Soviet Union. Among factors which planners should consider are: (1) size, structure, and areas of specialization of the institution; (2) teaching methods; (3) trends in scientific research; (4) materials development and financial resources; and (5) improvement in the management system.…

Describes the construction and testing of a model to evaluate effectiveness of various teaching methods in economics. The variables included students' time spent on the course and expected grade upon entering the course. (Author/AV)