Author delineated a specific method of evaluation based on transactional analysis - one that is applicable to conflict situations. (Editor/RK)

Authors examined social policy issues related to government funding and raised some serious questions about the nature and future of policy. (Editor/RK)

Authors distinguished between policy and programs, explaining how policy leads to a host of programs. (Editor/RK)

Author presented a six-point model for purposes of diagnosing program success or lack of success. (Editor/RK)

Attempts to provide school practitioners with a short list of very general characteristics, most of a non-technical nature, which should exist in any good evaluation study and to show how they might be applied by school personnel to judge an evaluation study being planned or conducted in their system. (Author/RK)

Discussed the Pilot State Dissemination Program, undertaken as a try-out of an educational extension and retrieval system on a sufficiently large scale to derive guidelines for future projects at the state level. (Author/RK)

Author discusses the U S Office of Education's purposes and rationale for supporting university-based R & D centers. (Editor/MB)

Discusses three different settings which illustrate the need for a cost-benefit type of evaluation and then gives examples of objective-based evaluation, goal-free evaluation, and cost-benefit evaluation. (RK)

The purpose of this study is to suggest another source of information to be used for evaluating our teacher education programs. (Author)

The assessment responses in the following articles by Charles H. Buzzell, David V. Tiedman and Jacob J. Kaufman are offered to provide the reader with reference points for determining the usefulness of MISOE. Each assessor responded from a professional perspective. (Editor)

This bibliography cites 14 microfiche documents from the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) data base, selected for their practical relevance to the evaluation of career education programs. (SJL)

Author emphasized the conflicting roles of researchers and practitioners. He suggested solutions for bridging the existing gap, while noting that some of these issues cannot be easily resolved. (Editor/RK)