The evaluation determined the success of a program designed to effect high transfer of skills among educable mentally handicapped students in grades 7-10. The 3-year program employed a community worker to help promote practical application of skills to the community setting. Measurements of change in academic achievement and attitudes were…

At Sinclair Community College (SCC) in Dayton, Ohio, a series of holistic education courses, called Education for Work/Life Actualization, was designed to offer students new skills for the development of self-esteem, empathy, creativity, intuition, centeredness, clarity of values, communication, nutrition, and preventative self-help health care.…

Black Hawk College's Study Unlimited cooperative program with the River Bend Library System, established in 1972, is presented as a model for community college and public library cooperation in offering off-campus instructional opportunities to new student populations by breaking time and place access barriers. Study Unlimited's objectives are to…

This document compiles two reports from the student flow project for Hawaii community colleges. The first contains a review of previously conducted employer follow-up studies in Hawaii and in other states, selected excerpts from employer survey instruments, and a proposal for an employer follow-up study of Hawaii community college graduates. The…

As part of the annual evaluation of Title I Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) projects, this report was produced. It is organized into six sections: (1) Programmatic Goals; (2) Evaluation Techniques; (3) Findings; (4) Discussion; (5) Summary and Conclusions; and (6) Abstracts of Project Reports. The abstracts are based on annual…

This is an evaluation of a Title VII bilingual program that was conducted at Louis D. Brandeis High School in New York City in 1979-1980 to serve Spanish speaking students. The evaluation provides a demographic analysis of the schools's environment, information on student characteristics, and a program description. Instructional components of the…

Selected 1975 parent and teacher data from the Follow Through (FT) program were reanalyzed to see if the broader goals of FT were met. Analysts focused on comprehensive services provision, parental involvement promotion, and the relation of findings to the previous national FT evaluation and the Joint Dissemination Review Panel (JDRP) FT project…

Career development, life skills, and basic skills were important emphases in the experience-based career education program installed at two Virginia high schools. The program, call ExCEL (Exploring Careers through Experiential Learning), aimed to provide student experience in community learning sites and to integrate this with acquisition of…

Outcome evaluation assesses the results or benefits of mental health services received by clients or communities by comparing descriptive data on the mental health status of clients at different points in time. It aids clinicians and managers in planning programs and managing clinical services. A mental health center should establish goal-oriented…

A third-party evaluation was designed to document the processes undertaken to implement a Memphis, Tennessee, experience-based career education (EBCE) program. It also intended to assess project effects on student outcomes. Evaluation included pre- and post-testing of a control group and experimental group of tenth grade students enrolled in the…

This paper is a summary report of the "Study of the Emergency School Aid Act Magnet School Program" which was undertaken to determine the effectiveness of magnet school programs as a strategy in school desegregation. The representative sample of eighteen schools used in the study and their community contexts are described, and the…

Presented is a report of a joint study project of an aerospace company and California's Office of Compensatory Education. The project's goals were to (1) explore the impact of facets of compensatory education on some neighborhood problems; (2) offer a communication link between school personnel and the Office of Compensatory Education; (3) use a…

Findings are reported of the evaluation of the San Jose State College career counseling training project, which had the following objectives: (1) helping counseling associates (paraprofessional liaison workers) gain skills in guidance and counseling, (2) assisting professional level counselors to have a better understanding of and an ability to…

Designed for coordinators of student volunteer programs (experiential learning through community service), this manual provides information on some of the basic research approaches and tools which can be used to analyze a program's activities and effectiveness. The major areas discussed include the following: the reasons for and resources…

Because of course difficulty and dryness, students of elementary accounting often have poor grades and manifest low interest and a 40-50% dropout rate. In answer to these problems, an experimental multimedia approach to teaching the accounting cycle was tested with 58 students against a control group of 62. Both groups consisted of male and female…