Metaevaluation is the evaluation of evaluation. Metaevaluation may focus particular evaluation cases, evaluation systems, or the discipline overall. Leading scholars within the discipline consider metaevaluation to be a professional imperative, demonstrating that evaluation is a reflexive enterprise. Various criteria have been set forth for what…

Program variables amenable to evaluation are listed in four categories: foundation variables, antecedent variables, instrumental variables, and consequential variables. (Author)

The purpose of developmental evaluation is to guard against over-simplification. Three questions which the evaluator may ask to help accomplish this task are: 1) What are the conditions under which the project will have to exist? 2) What are the activities or transactions that will have to take place if the project is to be successful? 3) What…

A statement by the guest editor of the premises guiding this issue of Thrust which covers the area of evaluating personnel performance. (CB)

This publication represents the fourth in a six-part series describing the Management Organization Systems Technique (MOST), which was developed at Wayne County Community College to determine the goals and objectives of the college and assist in their attainment and evaluation. The evaluation component, an essential part of the control function of…

A basis is provided for judging the adequacy of evaluation plans or evaluation designs in this document. It is assumed that using the procedures suggested to determine the adequacy of evaluation designs in advance of actually conducting evaluations will lead to better evaluation designs, better evaluations, and more useful evaluative information.…

The purpose of this module is to help educators learn how to break down a goal into its directly observable component parts. These parts of the goal can then be used as evaluative criteria for measuring accomplishment of the goal. The procedure is a new method for operationally defining goals and is a specific application of a general method…

A fundamental distinction is made between basic research which seeks out new, generalizable knowledge, and administrative research which provides information useful to decision makers who have a task to perform. Attention is then given to four types of administrative research: background research, formative research, summative research, and policy…

The term "evaluation" emerged in the 1930's to describe a broader and somewhat more pragmatic type of inquiry than had been associated with the word "measurement." Examples suggest two main lines of development: (1) An emphasis on the specification of objectives and their attainment, and (2) an emphasis on evaluation as a cooperative process…

Guidelines for reviewing teacher centers are presented in this paper. A teacher center is defined as an operation which incorporates the following: a) formal shared decision-making with regard to policy formation, budget, personnel and program by those who are affected, whether they are teachers, students, teacher educators, or community members;…

Presenting criticisms of a YMCA program guide designed to foster American Indian cultural understanding between parent and child, this paper concludes that the Y manuals are based primarily on the culture of the Plains tribes and are, therefore, offensive to the Sioux. (JC)

ERIC abstracts on educational assessment, announced in RIE through August 1970, are presented. The key terms used in compiling this collection are "evaluation,""evaluation criteria,""evaluation methods,""evaluation techniques," and "program evaluation." The following information is presented for each doument: author, title, place of publication,…

Evaluation in its true concept should be a process for collecting information to make better decisions. The author discusses in detail four planning stages to evaluate programs. The first stage of the process is to ascertain the decision areas of concern. In the second stage, the evaluator must select the appropriate information-gathering…

The outline presented is an evaluation model which spells out guidelines for conducting an evaluation of special education programs and services. The guidelines define the duties of a full-time project coordinator or administrator, who provides the leadership for all the plans and procedures developed to conduct the evaluation. His…

A teacher preparation evaluation model was developed at Western Kentucky University. A total of 18 secondary and 20 elementary student teachers participated in the study. Instrumentation and records used for data collection consisted of five general types: a questionnaire, a personality scale, rating scales, direct classroom observational systems,…