This study established nine categories which taken together define the open classroom. Three open classrooms at the grade levels four to six were used for this study. To gather the data the classrooms were observed, literature was reviewed, interviews were taken, and audio and video equipment was used. The data was then analyzed, and the…

The paper discusses a procedure for writing, monitoring, and evaluating Individual Education Plans (IEPs), as mandated by the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, utilizing computer technology. Concerns related to the values and philosophy of decision-makers as they work with data derived from computer systems to formulate IEPs are also…

Individualized education programs (IEPs) for 54 urban special education students (5-18 years old) were rated according to required IEP components and student demographic data. Analysis indicated that IEPs developed by speech pathologists were superior to other IEPs in terms of accordance with federal guidelines. The major shortcoming in IEP…

A brief discussion of the importance of management by objectives in business is followed by a do-it-yourself model incorporating the principles of P.I.E.--Planning, Intervention, Evaluation--and a list of key points to be covered in the early part of the program between the Teacher-Manager and the Student-Manager. (CMV)

Because of problems involved in traditional impromptu contests, which require contestants to speak on topics that they know little or nothing about, administrators of the Big Sky Intercollegiate Forensic Tournament at the University of Montana modified the traditional contest structure in 1969 to permit impromptu speeches on sub-topics of general…

Several current approaches to evaluation stress the importance of making explicit the conceptual structure of a program--displaying the hierarchically related transactions which explain the program's movement from a set of "inputs" to a set of desired outcomes. However, individualized programs present particular difficulties in…

Described is a model for the evaluation of the Texas Comprehensive Special Education Program (Plan A) based on providing each child with an individualized educational plan and the least restrictive educational placement alternative. The plan is reported to have been implemented on a pilot basis over a 3-year period in the Dallas school district.…

This paper presents results of an evaluation study of the Fostering Individualized Assistance Program (FIAP), an effort to provide individualized wraparound supports and services to foster children with emotional/behavioral disturbances and their families (foster, biological, and/or adoptive). The program aims to stabilize child placement and…

The Learning Skills Center (LSC) at Los Angeles City College is an individualized learning laboratory which offers assistance to students in communication skills and quantitative skills, and provides tutoring in all college-level courses. ISC's programs are diagnostic and prescriptive, and services are available to students on both voluntary and…

The paper compares evaluation requirements established under P.L. 94-103 (Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act) and P.L. 94-142 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act). The correspondence of the requirements to traditional evaluation models is noted, and obstacles to implementation of the evaluation procedures are…

The study involving 20 hearing and behavior disordered children (8-16 years old) investigated the hypothesis that children who receive individual and/or group counseling, an individualized psycho-educational program in a therapeutic milieu, and whose parents receive individual and/or group counseling will demonstrate more progress in their social…

The North Carolina Department of Correction, Division of Prisons, provides two deinstitutionalization services for mentally retarded, incarcerated offenders. These projects, funded by monies provided by the Council on Developmental Disabilities, serve mentally retarded youthful offenders (age 17-21) and retarded female offenders regardless of age.…

Progress on the University of Texas personalized system of instruction (PSI) project is described. Twelve courses in the College of Engineering and five in other colleges were developed for PSI under a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Each of those courses has now been offered at least once, thus making it possible to begin evaluating…

A planning model incorporating the concepts of Planning, Programming, and Budgeting Systems (PPBS) was developed in the Duluth, Minnesota public school system to assist in the consolidation of federally funded programs in the district, especially those under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title III. A cost effectiveness model…

The programs and projects of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation are outlined, and its attitudes toward evaluation are discussed--with particular emphasis on the evaluation of an individually guided education project, developed by the Institute for Development of Educational Activities to promote instructional change. The Kettering Foundation, a…