Selectivity bias arises in program evaluation when the treatment or control status of the subjects is related to unmeasured characteristics that themselves are related to the program outcome under study. This situation has the potential to lead to an incorrect estimation of the treatment effect when assignment to treatment and control groups is…

Although there is high interest in determining whether or not an educational program provides good value for its cost, it is difficult to make this determination, since people are not generally conceptualized as products and since educational benefits are not easily translated into financial terms. Economic principles suggest that the cost of…

This document is part of a revised series of five publications, planning for Inservice Education, which was originally published in 1976 in five units. This introductory monograph provides a discussion of the generic principles of effective planning for inservice education programs. The contents are divided into an overview of the planning model,…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS PUBLICATION IS THREEFOLD--(1) TO FACILITATE THE ORGANIZATION OF OUTSTANDING PROGRAMS BY DIRECTING ATTENTION TO THE ORIENTATION OF A GOOD PROGRAM AND TO THE ROLE OF ADMINISTRATORS AND FACULTY IN ITS IMPLEMENTATION, (2) TO ASSIST IN THE IMPROVEMENT, ARTICULATION, AND EVALUATION OF PROGRAMS ALREADY UNDERWAY, AND (3) TO FOREWARN OF…

A problem, endemic to program evaluation, centering around the inability of evaluations to produce meaningful information, is outlined. A general strategy to be utilized in responding to the problem, the ethnographic approach, is presented. The discussion of an ethnographic evaluation model focuses upon: the role of the participant observer,…

This annotated bibliography has been compiled to aid museum staff members as they develop and implement naturalistic evaluations of museum programs and practices. Naturalistic evaluation is a recent assessment perspective which is concerned more with interpretation than judgment. It is characterized by concern with spontaneous activities rather…

This California Evaluation Improvement Project (EIP) Program Evaluation workbook has two purposes. It can be used as a learning and instructional aid while one masters the procedures, techniques, and methods of program evaluation. Used this way, it helps the practitioner summarize and put into practice the subject matter presented in the EIP…

This conference report presents the position taken by large cities in evaluating projects under ESEA Title I. Since this was the first educational legislation in history to call for evaluation at the local level of programs generated by Federal funds, most districts had little time to design project evaluation and to obtain adequate research…

Objective evaluation of school programs is a process in which a school staff collects information used to provide feedback as to whether or not a given set of objectives has been met. The Evaluative Programs for Innovativ e Curriculums (EPIC) four-step scheme of objective evaluation is based on a three-dimensional structure of variables…

Seven major steps are outlined in this brief introduction to the process of evaluation: (1) Identification of the objectives of the educational enterprise. (2) Specification of the types of student behavior that reflect achievement of the objectives. (3) Construction of situations in which the student will be required or expected to demonstrate…

The paper examines the concept of social indicators as ways of evaluating macro level adult education programs. In general social indicators deal with social factors which affect the quality of life of the population. Social scientists are recognizing the need for both economic and social indicators. Even as the need for social indicators is…

Evaluation services to be provided during 1975-76 to projects funded under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I are listed in this annual booklet. For each project, the following information is provided: goals to be assessed, evaluation techniques (design), and evaluation milestones. Regular term and summer term projects reported on…

Presented is an evaluation of the first annual Northern Virginia Conference on Gifted/Talented Education held April 30 - May 1, 1976. Listed are details of the agenda, keynote speakers, mini-lab leaders, mini-lab sessions, conference participants, budget, and geographical areas represented. Evaluation information is provided on specific program…

The arguments for evaluation as a service versus evaluation as an accountability function are debated. Proponents of the evaluation as service approach often argue that information requested for self-renewal is the information most likely to be used while those who favor accountability as the appropriate role for evaluation claim that people will…

The general objective of the study was to provide useful information regarding the effectiveness of various components of the HCHT program. GRC field teams spent two weeks (a full training cycle) at each of the two centers, observing the training processes. Pre-training and post-training questionnaires were administered to trainees at each center.…