Dwindling public funding as well as greater competition for grant dollars create a challenge for Extension. For Extension to remain a financially viable organization, educators have to be able to produce substantive, measurable program outcomes and impacts. Evaluative data can inform program development and delivery, and helps administrators…

Describes a statewide continuing education program for emergency room nurses on the care of alcohol abusers. Covers planning and scheduling, resources, format and content, participants, and evaluation. (EM)

A four step model, developed to help college union staff help students independently determine and fulfill their leisure time needs, features identification of needs and skills, classification of these needs and skills, participation, and evaluation. (CJ)

A study was made of an innovative University of California (Los Angeles) program designed to help engineering executives become executive generalists and technical managers. The purpose was to learn the degree to which program objectives were being met, effects of participation on managerial mobility, and the extent to which graduates altered…

This study was conducted to ascertain the impact on the subsequent professional practices of institute directors and participants and to collect the opinions of these people regarding instruction, organization and administration of the 29 institutes. Mailed questionnaires were returned by 28 directors and 671 participants. Findings included: (1)…

The four 1967 institutes were coordinated through a consortium approach wherein the Center for Vocational and Technical Education, the Ohio State University served as the coordinating agency for designing the program, preparing staff, evaluating the program, writing the final report, disseminating information, and following up participants. The…

A Manpower Pre-Employment Training Program was launched in October 1969, to provide educational opportunities to trainees, to determine their occupational qualifications, and to investigate the relationship between these qualifications and successful completion of on-the-job training. More specific objectives were to: provide employers with…

Under contract to the Chicago Public Schools, the Cooperative Educational Research Laboratory, Inc. (CERLI) conducted a program for training inservice leaders from February 10 through March 21, 1969. This program achieved the dual purpose of training Chicago Public Schools' personnel and of pilot-testing CERLI's primary developmental activity--the…

An evaluation was made of the Tennessee Adult Basic Education Supervisors' Conference, held at Memphis State University, Memphis, Tennessee in August, 1970. Data were gathered from the 52 local supervisors in attendance by use of a questionnaire designed to obtain demographic data and participant reactions. The Kropp-Verner Attitude Scale was used…

Using interviews and questionnaire, this survey investigated aspects of the Agency for International Development (AID) training programs, participants' reactions, and subsequent uses made of training. Data were obtained on personal background and occupation, pretraining activities, actual program sojourns, and the aftermath. These were among the…

This booklet is intended as a guide for community educators on planning and teaching educational programs for older adults. Chapter 1, Getting Started, discusses the program plan which identifies the sponsoring agency, advisory committee, and ways of determining needs and interests. Chapter 2, Designing the Program, focuses on the participants,…

This document is arranged in three parts. Part I reviews the local educational agencies' (LEA's) Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I programs for fiscal year 1975. This review includes the following sections: program achievements in reading and mathematics for the regular term and for the summer term, statistical overview of Title I…

The data contained in this document, summarized from local educational agencies' (LEAs') reports, provide an overview of the descriptive characteristics of the projects at the statewide level. During fiscal year 1975, 796 projects approved by the New York State Education Department were conducted in 725 districts. There were 512,755 reported…

Alaska Teacher-Coordinators in the Rural Student Vocational Program (RSVP) should be familiar with activities necessary to insure proper selection of students and proper and meaningful work placement. In RSVP, students from outlying high schools travel to Anchorage, Fairbanks, or Juneau to participate in 2 weeks of work experience with cooperating…

This document presents the final report of a study conducted by the Committee on Evaluation and Training Programs to assess the impact of CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) on manpower programs. The report examines the differences between CETA Title I programs and their predecessors and compares legislative goals with results. It…