Workshop and conference improvement becomes a function of planning, linking, evaluating and following up on all aspects of the workshop experience. (ABM)

Perceptions of the university community regarding the counseling center were judged to be of interest and the Counseling Appropriateness Checklist was used to ascertain these opinions from four basic groups, students, prior clients, instructional staff, and the Student Affairs staff. Results are discussed. (Author)

GAS (Goal Attainment Sealing) is an administrative technique used to determine program success through defining and measuring program goals. (MB)

An evaluation of a college summer enrichment program is described in which analysis of covariance is used to focus on the impact of the program on college academic work. The integration of this statistical study into the decision making process of an evaluation task force is also described. (Author/JKS)

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)

Many independent schools are now devising or revising procedures for assessing the performance of their teaching staffs. How can they make sure that their evaluation programs will be fair to the teacher and useful to the school and the community? Discusses some common pitfalls in faculty evaluation programs. (Author/RK)

After a brief discussion of the terms implementation and monitoring, this article illustrates a strategy for monitoring program implementation. The strategy, called model-guided method, offers a way to develop conceptual and empirical specifications for testing the adequacy of a program implementation. It also provides feedback to program…

The method of social validation was used to evaluate the behavioral treatment objectives of autistic children. Responses of 24 parents of autistic children, 29 behavior therapists, and 48 student teachers regarding their judgments of treatment goals demonstrated the usefulness of the technique and differences among the three groups of evaluators.…

Ten functions of program theory are reviewed: contributing to social science knowledge; assisting policymakers, discriminating between theory failure and program failure, identifying the problem and target group, providing program implementation description, uncovering unintended effects, specifying intervening variables, improving formative use…

An instructional methods inventory was completed by 200 geologists and geophysicists, 117 of whom had just completed a technical seminar. Results indicate that field trips, illustrated lectures, and small-group simulations are highly effective instructional techniques. Results also indicate that four and one-half day seminars are preferred. (CH)

The article provides an overview of benefit cost analysis and its limitations and reviews the applications of benefit-cost analysis within vocational programs for persons with severe disabilities. Recommendations are made to assist state and program developers in choosing among program alternatives. (Author/DB)

Confronts the criticisms of discipline-based art education (DBAE), particularly those claims that DBAE is too narrow and undemocratic in its choice of subject matter and its interest in students. Argues that when properly implemented, DBAE is not only more democratic than other approaches, but it also goes farther in developing students'…

Criticizes discipline-based art education (DBAE), as proposed by the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, as being too confining for classroom use. Considers DBAE to be too narrow and limiting for teachers and calls for new interpretations of a more interdisciplinary view of art education. (GEA)

Considers what discipline-based art education (DBAE) teaches through its implicit characteristics and basic assumptions. Argues that DBAE should not be evaluated in terms of any one curricular model because there are many possibilities for its presentation. States that DBAE does not need to present standardized content or limit study to artistic…

The differences between evaluation of academic units and evaluation of administrative units are discussed, and the development and implementation of a procedure for administrative unit evaluation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is described. (MSE)