An Electrical Engineering Summer Academy for Pre-College Students was held at the University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, during the summers of 2007 and 2008. The Academy participants included students having just completed 7th to 11th grade and teachers from middle school through high school. The students and teachers participated in team-building,…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate two recent examples of the New Zealand Ministry of Education's approach to reducing the persistent disparities in achievement between students of different social and ethnic groups. The first example is cluster-based school improvement, and the second is the development of national standards for…

This second annual report of the Minority Women Employment Program (MWEP), a consolidation and expansion of earlier black women employment programs, provides a description of project objectives, procedures, and results and draws conclusions and recommendations. The period covered is September 1975, to August 1976. Chapter 1 documents the need for…

A project funded by a Women's Educational Equity Act grant provided women greater access to and awareness of nontraditional career opportunities and gave successful Kansas City, Missouri, professional women greater visibility in the community. The three components were (1) an internship program during which a woman intern was placed under…

The approach in this book focuses on the process involved in the area of concern recognized as community development. The first three chapters give background on the village community and the farmstead community. The remaining 11 chapters are given to developing an understanding of community development and its dynamics. The bibliography lists the…

The vision of continuing professional education should be reframed to place development of expertise and improvement of professional practice at the core. Providers would offer market-driven services that include education, evaluation, and consultation. (SK)

The article discusses theoretical and practical considerations for planning evaluation of postemployment training of handicapped professionals who are undergoing rehabilitation. (Author)

This study was conducted to provide information for the Ontario Ministry of Education about the 1990-91 graduating class of candidates from teacher education institutions in Ontario. Subjects were 5,080 English-language and 417 French-language teacher education graduates. A longitudinal survey was taken in three stages over a period of two years.…

These proceedings include four papers on the status of evaluation Michael Scriven ("Evaluation: The State of the Science") examines the general picture of evaluation, identifies a number of trends in the field, and presents several new evaluation concepts. Included are discussions of "responsibility evaluation,""value…

The National Center for Educational Communication (NCEC) contracted with Rand to develop a range of potential objectives and structures for the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) system that could render it more effective in the future. The Rand study team surveyed the scope and sources of education literature and studied the…

The scarcity of women in engineering prompted the design of this program which moves eligible women into engineering with 12 months of intensive course work. Qualifications for entry included a college degree with emphasis in math or science, underemployed or employed in non-degree related work. Evaluation activities included program monitoring,…

Sociological models of professionalization are applied to recent events in program evaluation to study the development of the field and to predict future events. The focus is on problems that might arise and the necessity of ameliorating them. Available from: Pergamon Press, Maxwell House, Fairview Park, Elmsford, New York 10523. (Author/ GDC)

Results of a follow-up survey of recipents of Masters and Doctoral degrees from the College of Education of Texas A&M University are reported. The scope of inquiry included those who completed post-baccalaureate programs between May 1975 and May 1977, inclusively. Professional and employment profiles were obtained from holders of each degree.…

Activities conducted under a grant from the Division of Adult Education Programs, U.S.O.E., are reported on. The Project included the 1970 National Institute on Instructional Television and Adult Basic Education and a variety of pre-Institute activities and post-Institute follow-up activities. State Directors of Adult Basic Education or their…

In the first year of a 2-year extension grant, Project PROBE served 341 limited-English-proficient speakers of Spanish and Chinese at 2 New York high schools. The project's aim was to increase career awareness through instruction in English as a Second Language (ESL), native language instruction (NLA), and bilingual content-area courses,…