Role of the Lister Hill Center is to serve the medical community as it evaluates and corrects itself. (Editor)

A detailed description of Project Insite, designed to provide an accelerated, enriched, and innovative teacher education Program. Appendixes give program outlines and materials used. (MBM)

The authors present a step-by-step approach to a phased-in career development model to help develop, restructure, evaluate, and implement a program. Steps include: examine existing practices; sell top management; communicate corporate philosophy; integrate the program; design workshops; and evaluate. (CT)

An overview of the function of observation systems within the context of program evaluation is illustrated by summarizing observation systems used in evaluations of primary education, compensatory education, and Follow Through programs. (Author/CM)

Assessed the efficacy of a training program to train lay volunteers to lead a Premarital Relationship Enhancement program. Assessments of couples trained by the leader-trainees showed significant pre- to posttesting gains in their self-assessed skill levels and confidence. Premarital couples and experts rated the leader-trainees very highly.…

Three years of experience with a program using labor union volunteers to work with young adult offenders are described. The project's relative success is attributed to the volunteers' union background, staff-volunteer interaction, thorough training of the volunteers, and their range. (Author/HLM)

Assessed the effectiveness of rehabilitation services provided to patients (N=277) of a large psychiatric hospital. Follow-up data revealed that 43.3 percent were productively engaged, 65.9 percent considered themselves satisfied with their level of community adjustment, and 41.1 percent were rated as involved in the community. Age, sex, and…

Describes the evaluation of a training program designed to teach family therapy skills to 24 social workers of a family service agency. Notes that while its impact somewhat surpassed initial expectations, a need for reliable instruments capable of measuring change in trainees' perceptual and executive skills remains. (Author/WAS)

Questions and decisions made during institutional review are not equally significant to all parties. Methods and criteria are important to the accreditors; focus, dissemination, and application of results are important to administrators. There must be consistent policy for control of the process for all evaluation decisions. (MSE)

The evaluators of Push/Excel assumed that it was a systematically developed program with measurable outcomes, not a charismatically inspired movement whose effects would be hard to pin down. As a result, neither the program nor the evaluation approach used were adequately tested. (Author)

An alcohol education program for youth, developed as a district project by the Nebraska Cooperative Extension Service, was evaluated using a responsive approach derived from Stake (1975). Rather than focusing on goals and objectives, the overall evaluation design responded to needs for descriptions of the program and participants' activities.…

The author discusses the selection and use of control groups, particularly in studies evaluating gifted programs. Factors affecting evaluation design decisions are outlined, the control and abuse of control groups is discussed, and some useful data collection design procedures are reviewed. Also considered is the analysis of data from contrast…