This collection of program evaluation studies is designed to help program evaluation staff in state agencies improve their current program education strategies. It alerts staff members to procedures being used in other state agencies, as well as provides further information about the current status of state rehabilitation agency program…

The eighth in a series of booklets on the Macomb (Illinois) 0-3 Regional Project for rural handicapped and high risk infants and toddlers focuses on the project's accountability efforts. The first paper presents an accountability instrument which includes descriptions of location, contacts, and activities (system entry, direct services,…

This paper reviews the findings of TEMPO's 1967 and subsequent evaluation studies and offers some conclusions and recommendations aimed at strengthening Title I compensatory education programs. An overview of Title I and a description of the TEMPO study and its methodology are provided. It is stated that, with the measurement methods used, no…

The paper examines ways to choose appropriate objectives for program evaluation in the education of the handicapped. Section I discusses how too much pressure can distort priorities (alignment of short-term objectives with long-term objectives), and lists six steps in determining priorities. Section II applies the principles to learning disabled…

BASED ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT TRAINING PROGRAMS ORDINARILY INVOLVE BOTH BENEFITS (ADVANTAGES) AND COSTS (DISADVANTAGES), THIS ARTICLE DISCUSSES THE FORM OF SUCH EFFECTS IN THE MANPOWER TRAINING AREA, AND PRESENTS SOME SUGGESTIONS REGARDING MEASUREMENT METHODS. THE NEED TO EVALUATE TRAINING PROGRAMS IN TERMS OF THEIR EFFECTS ON EFFICIENCY OF…

In an attempt to improve Head Start evaluations, several methodological techniques are proposed. Since programs vary in approach, evaluations must be made on the success of the individual programs. Formulation of research questions should provide information as to the process and outcome of the program. To avoid experimenter bias, experimenters…

This report of a 2-week workshop contains 12 papers presented by their authors, four business presentations, and 12 group and 25 individual projects. The papers pertain to the application of the project method, objectives and use of projects, and preparing culturally deprived students. The business presentations relate to advertising, credit,…

This is the fifth and final paper of a symposium on the evaluation of juvenile diversion programs by the Claremont Graduate School Center for Applied Social Research. The first four papers deal with specific methodologies used to obtain information at each of four levels of evaluation: general project management, description of the intervention,…

The clinical evaluation package used in this study was designed to: (1) develop an instrument capable of generating client typologies for counselees in juvenile diversion programs; (2) develop a measure of the counseling process that could differentiate client services received in such counseling programs; and (3) provide the programs with a…

This report presents a technical history of the national evaluation study of the Follow Through Planned Variation Model. The last in a five volume series dealing with Follow Through evaluation activities, this volume is devoted to examining the major issues confronting the evaluation and the attempts made to resolve these issues. Chapter I…

The role of the evaluator in a Research & Development (R & D) setting, particularly as seen in relationship to that of the product developer, is often viewed as adversal, rather than complemental. A case study approach has been employed in an attempt to define how the role as seen in the latter sense can best be implemented. Both failures and…

This Local Education Agency (LEA) Self Analysis Instrument for ESEA Title I is one of the products developed and validated by the SEA (State Educational Agencies) Management of Compensatory Education, a multistate project funded through ESEA Title V-505. An additional product of the project was a LEA Process Model said to support the…

The documented case history is an account of how three teachers handled a prepackaged career education component for grades K-3. The article is divided into three sections: (1) the career education materials they received; (2) their reactions to these materials; and (3) a few guidelines. The materials present formulated objectives, considerations,…

The Panel on Manpower Training Evaluation has recommended that Social Security earnings data be more widely used in evaluating manpower programs, especially those that tend to serve prime-age males, such as the MDTA (Manpower Development Training Act) or NAB-JOBS (National Association of Businessmen-Job Opportunities in the Business Sector)…

The purpose of the project was to plan, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive vocational education program for career development in Grades K-12, in one metropolitan school district in Florida. Data for the evaluation of the program were collected from students, teachers, counselors, and administrators. The hypotheses for guiding the evaluation…