This critique lists a number of positive features of the Rite of Passage Review and dwells at somewhat more length on its problems and difficulties. The remarks are organized around several key features of the design which were taken to operationalize the process: 1) Specialist Panel Personnel; 2) Size of Panels; 3) Orientation of Panel Members…

Current practices in intercollegiate debate encourage inadequate reasoning and the use of short cuts in debate presentations. Poor debate strategies have emerged. For example, the inclusion, by negative teams, of excessively detailed arguments in constructive speeches has caused affirmative rebuttals to be acutely simplistic or has forced…

This report provides a description of an innovative ECE program which uses a diagnostic-prescriptive approach. The program is based on a comprehensive developmental model in which cognitive growth proceeds through motor, perceptual, integrative, and symbolic phases. It is emphasized that the basic developmental processes must be assessed so that…

Recently, a model was developed for use in gathering data and making evaluations in a systematic manner. The purpose of this study was to adapt the model for evaluation of the graduates of the teacher preparation program of Tennessee Technological University. A sample of 59 graduates of the teacher preparation program of the university, who were…

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of individual conferences on the performance of students in a junior college composition program. A review of the literature on conferencing led to the hypothesis that students who had individual conferences would improve their writing significantly more than those students who did not. In both…

The focus of this paper is on innovative evaluation, evaluation methodologies, and the development of evaluative instruments. Innovative evaluation is discussed as related to comprehensive evaluation, general evaluation with special emphasis, problems in comprehensive and general evaluations, and five components of an assessment model…

The special education training program at the University of Northern Iowa provides a systematically integrated program designed to develop professional personnel with the requisite competencies to (a) diagnose and teach; (b) organize and supervise programs; (c) evaluate instructional programs; and d) train professional educators to implement…

A draft of untested instruments and procedures for evaluating vocational/technical education programs, intended for discussion and use in field tests, is presented. The guidelines, criteria, and evaluation methods presented are divided into two major categories--institutional form and program form. Items within each category are grouped under the…

Chaired by Bernard G. Guerney, Jr., this program on the development and evaluation of helping skills training included the following presentations: (1) "The Development of a Helping Skills Program" (Steven Danish); (2) "Paraprofessionals Assess the Training Program" (Barbara Wakshul); (3) "Research Conducted on the Training of Basic Helping…

Papers presented at a symposium on "The Application of a Model for the Evaluation of Educational Products" are provided. The papers are: "A Model for the Evaluation of Educational Products" by Charles L. Bertram; "The Application of an Evaluation Model to a Preschool Intervention Program" by Brainard W. Hines; "An Evaluation Model for a Regional…

Following a review of over 350 evaluation-related reports as well as written evaluation activities by the National Advisory Council, state advisory councils, and over 30 state departments of education, three criteria were proposed as methods to be used by state education leaders in assessing the worth of an existing or proposed evaluation system.…

The 1969 Invitational Conference on Testing Problems had as its theme "Toward a Theory of Achievement Measurement." Papers presented in Session I, The Nature of Educational Achievement, were: (1) "Concepts of Achievement and Proficiency" by William E. Coffman; (2) "The Functions and Uses of Educational Measurement" by Winton H. Manning; (3)…

The purpose of the COPES subsystem in consumer and homemaking education (CHE) is the improvement of the quality and availability of CHE programs and services for students of California community colleges. It achieves this purpose by: (1) providing easily administered procedures for studying CHE programs, (2) offering professional assistance in…

An evaluation was made of the occupational education program at California community colleges. Three areas were studied: strengths, improvement needs, and research priorities. Evaluations, combining college self-appraisals with validations of the self-appraisals by visiting COPES teams, were conducted over a three-month period. Team ratings…

This final volume of reports on the evaluation of ESEA Title I projects in Philadelphia 1971-1972 is concerned with the cluster "Auxiliary Services to Schools and Pupils." In this report are examined the theoretical bases for the creation and integration of projects directed toward the broad-based career development goals of the School…