A guide and handbook for planners, developers, and evaluators of educational programs and products, this book discusses the various settings in which an evaluator commonly works and the many roles he performs. The book divides the evaluator's work into three activities: establishing perspective, planning the evaluation, and analyzing the data.…

This document briefly summarizes the Kansas Model for career education. The model is explained through comparisons with other models, and through a brief description of its two-dimensional structure of process phases on one side and four career components on the other side (self, work, leisure, resources). The process itself is a decision-making…

Many counselors, psychologists and other growth specialists functioning in institutions seek ways of improving them but are frustrated by feelings of lack of personal influence or expertise. Attempts at change are often aborted or actually programmed for failure by professionals who expect rejection of their ideas. In many instances, professionals…

A computer-assisted instructional (CAI) program at the University of Illinois is used to teach the dynamics of population growth. Socio-economic models are also developed to show the consequences of population growth upon variables such as income, productivity, and the demand for food. A one-sex population projection model allows students to…

Four papers presented by American Institutes for Research personnel review Project TALENT developments. The impending Five Year Career Data Book is introduced in David Tiedeman's paper, "A Career Data Book for the First Five Years After High School." For each of twelve career groups a descriptive statement provides information on…

The paper gives interested persons examples of how small and rural schools are providing essential guidance services. A synthesis of the literature dealing with current guidance programs and practices in these schools is presented. Suggestions are made for training guidance specialists and for providing viable innovations in counseling and…

To develop a model plan for a career education curriculum laboratory, a 2-phase study was conducted with phase one concentrating upon the state-of-the-art of curriculum development in Vocational Education Curriculum Laboratories and the production, nationally, of vocational instructional materials, and phase two starting with the study of the…

As with all new programs, the costs associated with library automation must be carefully considered before implementation. This document suggests guidelines to be followed and areas to be considered in the costing of library procedures. An existing system model has been suggested as a standard (Appendix A) and a classification of library tasks…

The basic objective of the study was to determine whether discrimination is operative in the training component of the WIN program, and to develop and utilize models for measuring its dimensions. The study concludes that no evidence of racial discrimination in WIN training allocations is observable but substantial evidence exists that women are…

The major purpose of the Georgia State Module was to demonstrate and investigate effective recruiting methods for Adult Basic Education (ABE) classes in the Appalachian Region of Georgia. In order to better understand the strengths and limitations of recruiters with differing backgrounds, this project utilized college students, lay persons,…

This workshop was held for the purpose of training selected staff members of the Ohio Module Field Unit of the Appalachian Adult Basic Education Demonstration Center (AABEDC). Twelve persons, six teachers and six paraprofessionals, were selected to participate in the workshop. While their specific jobs vary, all will be concerned with utilization…

Joreskog's general method for analysis of covariance structures was developed for estimating a model involving structures of a very general form on means, variances, and covariances of multivariate observations. This method achieves a great deal of generality and flexibility, in that it is capable of handling most standard statistical models as…

The results of the Rand study of pilot flows and the computer-operated decision model, called the PILOT model, are described. The flows of pilots within the Air Force are caused by policies that require the career-development rotation of pilots from cockpit jobs to desk jobs, the maintenance of a supplement of pilots in excess of cockpit-related…

A model of the educational system in a typical public school was constructed within the theoretical framework of a general systems theory. The model is quantified and computerized so as to provide high speed simulation. Using the model developed, one can then simulate solutions to educational problems in seconds and at modest cost. The theory…

This paper outlines a model for multigroup evaluation planning in a rural-education setting wherein the commitment to the structure necessary to evaluate a program is needed on the part of a research and development laboratory, the state departments of education, county supervisors, and the rural schools. To bridge the gap between basic research,…