Discusses components of a consumer feedback system and methods for the systematic collection of information. The system used by the "Teaching-Family Model" approach to residential treatment illustrates the successful implementation of feedback. (Author)

Identifies design variables directly related to the development of computer-based instruction (CBI) and shows how those variables can be applied in the actual development of a course. The design is for a computer literacy course concerned with both content and student attitudes about that content. (Author)

A 10-site school program is evaluated, the history of community schools, local program's goals, and the method used to study each goal are described. Included also are a structural equation model of the data and discussion of the politics of the evaluation. (Author/GK)

The career "cascade" approach to career education for learning disabled students is described. The model is developed on the belief that career education must be life centered, developmental, and individually designed. (PHR)

Describes problems and needs of sexual assault victims in rural areas; discusses impediments to apprehension and conviction of rapists; and outlines a successful model for sexual assault services that has provided health, mental health, and supportive services to victims and assisted in the rural justice system. (DS)

The data from this attendance survey were used to design a model for improvement of student attendance. The crisis-intervention model with its planned sequential events provides the school with a mode of treatment to cope with these diversified crises. (Author)

Effects of the CoRT (Cognitive Research Trust) Thinking Project with slow learners in the United Kingdom is discussed. The aim of the project is to provide the framework which helps children arrive at a response to problems. (PHR)

Test report on usefulness of model that utilized collaboration between a school and community in formulation of language policy and selection of bilingual education program. Model assessed sociolinguistic parameters of the community, identified maintenance or transfer status of Spanish, and evaluated degree of ethnic homogeneity between parents…

Discussing faculty role in planning and implementing P.L. 94-142, this article presents a model for maximizing faculty leadership by becoming familiar with the law's provisions and school district policies and procedures and by establishing a committee composed of all concerned (principal, parents, teachers, support staff) to plan and evaluate the…

Eisner's educational criticism model produces a richer description of an English classroom than does Flanders' interaction analysis. (Author)

A conceptual perspective and set of principles are offered for the evaluation of special service programs in public school settings. Special service program evaluation is seen as a process of obtaining and reporting information on a program's adequacy, process, efficiency, and impact. (Author)

An administrator of an "overachieving" school is more likely than other administrators to set reading objectives and formulate evaluation procedures, promote cooperation between classroom teachers and the reading support personnel, and provide adequate instructional materials. (Author/IRT)

A program model for use in gifted classrooms focuses on achieving altered states of consciousnes in order to further develop the natural talents of children. (PHR)

The main assumptions and categories of Kohlberg's theory are outlined. New empirical studies and critical reviews are discussed, and their implications assessed. The relevance of the theory to moral education is seen as self-evident. The conditions for the efficacy of moral education programs are discussed. (Editor/SJL)

A model for change is currently being tested in a collaborative effort between a national research center and a large school district: the Research and Development Center for Teacher Education at the University of Texas at Austin and the Jefferson County, Colorado, Public School District. (Author/MLF)