The Student Information System (SIS) is designed to provide a longitudinal data base about students matriculating at and graduating from the College of Education at Ohio State University. The SIS has four basic purposes: (l) to document student experience for accountability and accreditation purposes; (2) to diagnose student progress for general…

A field test of an evaluation of a teacher education program at Glassboro State College (New Jersey) used 19 preservice teachers as subjects. The evaluation model adopted for the study, CIPP, is an acronym for the four types of evaluation incorporated into one model: context, input, process, and product. Tests administered to students were the…