The overall purpose of this evaluative project was to improve the administrative and programmatic aspects of public adult and continuing education programs in Illinois--particularly those funded under public law 91-230 (The Adult Education Act). A second major purpose was to provide a model for future evaluative efforts. Twenty local programs were…

The document examines the need to develop and implement more adequate evaluation methods for broad-aimed adult education programs, and presents some suggestions. Broad-aimed adult education programs are described as those which seek to affect the quality of the learners' lives through education and to help learners cope more effectively with their…

Dyer's (1970) model was utilized to examine instructional practices and easy-to-change surrounding conditions variables related to effective primary grade reading programs. Hard-to-change surrounding conditions variables were used in regression analyses as predictors of fourth grade reading achievement in 844 (75%) of the Iowa elementary schools;…

This bibliography lists publications dealing with various methods and techniques for assessing alternative courses of action. The analytical methods treated by the cited publications tend to emphasize a priori evaluation (that is, predicting and assessing the outcomes of alternatives). These methods include cost-benefit and cost-revenue studies,…

This paper describes an evaluation of the Child Development Fellowship Program at Boston Children's Hospital which was instituted to provide training to pediatricians (Fellows) in the developmental psychology of normal children. The training objectives for the program are listed briefly and the program evaluation techniques are described and…

The School Program Advancing Career Education (SPACE) was initiated in nine pilot schools in Greeneville and Greene County Tennessee in January 1973. The initial six months of program planning were climaxed by a 10-day workshop for the planning commission, consisting of 30 principals and staff members. This workshop was a cooperative effort of…

The management and evaluation of education programs requires a timely, accurate information system. The discrepancy analysis model described aids in providing this information in a format that may be processed and yields the method by which such a system may be developed and implemented. Building from specific statements of expected project…

Many new educational alternatives are being introduced and new methods of assessing their validity have become necessary. One of these new methods, Comprehensive Achievement Monitoring (CAM), designed to monitor the effects of educational innovation, may also be used to stimulate change in the classroom. Traditional classroom testing frequently…

The Vocational Education Act of 1963 (P.L. 88-210) specified that funded programs undergo periodic and regular evaluation to determine if participants are being adequately prepared for employment. A quasi-experimental method for objectively evaluating pilot programs is to use appropriate reference groups in lieu of the traditional experimental…

Evaluation of the Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) programs has been casual and nonconforming, making program improvement difficult. To develop appropriate evaluation techniques, consultants reviewed the objectives and process of MDTA and identified five overlapping and dependent functions, namely administration, counseling,…

Volume 2 of three volumes dealing with demonstration of dissemination practices on special class instruction for the mentally handicapped (utilizing master teachers as in-service educators) reports on the evaluation of project activities. A frame of reference on the overall project is provided, and data regarding the effectiveness of the model…

Criteria and guidelines are suggested for evaluating the adequacy and effectiveness of inservice training programs for use in administrative review of staff development in state and local departments of public welfare. Inservice education is treated as an essential, integral, and continuous part of agency administration. The content of orientation…

To determine if use of a creativity training workbook (Stretch) would increase creative performance, 45 fourth grade pupils were studied. The students were divided into control and experimental groups with half high (mean IQ 113) and half normal (mean IQ 101) ability with the controls using a placebo workbook and the experimentals using the…

The evaluation of a testing program is necessary before or during a sound total project evaluation. Ideally, the testing program study should be concurrent with, and equal in magnitude to, the total project evaluation. Step one in an evaluation is to define the testing program's objectives in operational terms. Step two is a thorough description…

This commentary takes no serious exception to Professor Lortie's conclusions about educational changes and issues in evaluation, but it examines certain assumptions. It questions the implications that each school district needs independent evaluation and that evaluation should be applied at the end of a given educational program, and asks what…