The 1981-82 external evaluation of the East Texas State University Elementary Secondary Eduation Act (ESEA) Title VII Bilingual Program is presented. This educational training program is designed to assist the State through the provision of well-prepared teachers, administrators, and specialists to upgrade the teaching of Texas' bilingual…

The document reviews the technical assistance process used by TADS (Technical Assistance Development System), a project to provide support to HCEEP (Handicapped Children's Early Education Program) demonstration projects serving young handicapped children and their families. Chapter 1, by P. Trohanis, focuses on a number of questions that people…

Presenting clear and concise guidelines for coordinators/trainers involved in the planning and implementation of orientation sessions for teachers and assistant teachers is the purpose of this manual. Beginning with introductory material concerning the purpose and goals of the reading improvement program and the roles served by assistant teachers,…

A study was conducted to determine the attitudes of teachers and students toward a program of uninterrupted sustained silent reading (USSR) operating in their school. The 14 teachers and 136 students in grades three through six were questioned about their attitudes toward the program. Teachers were also asked for opinions about USSR's effect on…

Noting that most writing across the curriculum programs have been dominated by the thinking of members of the English or composition departments, this paper describes the program developed at Loyola College (Maryland), which involved collaboration between writing specialists and content area teachers. The paper first describes the Loyola…

Starting with the observation that unless young people begin reading the newspaper for information rather than entertainment they are not likely to sustain a newspaper reading habit into adulthood, this paper goes on to describe a national movement that has begun in the United States to take the newspaper into the public schools. An estimated 600…

A cost-effectiveness/benefit analysis is defined as a technique for measuring the outputs of existing and new programs in relation to their specified program objectives, against the costs of those programs. In terms of its specific use, the technique is conceptualized as a systems analysis method, an evaluation method, and a planning tool for…

This paper reviews ten years of evaluation efforts by the sponsors of Follow Through programs, maintaining that sponsors' evaluations provide a different, equally valuable perspective to the one provided by the national evaluations of Follow Through. Sponsors were persons or groups that developed educational models for Follow Through and enacted…

The Guidelines for Educational Program Auditors in Utah were prepared to help educational program auditors (EPAs) deliver high quality services with a minimum of effort; they were intended to serve as a text for EPA training sessions, as a handbook and policy guide for EPAs and their assistants, and as a standard for judging the quality of EPA…

This brief document, produced by the Alaska Department of Education, presents criteria designed to be used by school administrators, professional staff and community representatives to assess mathematics programs and provide a basis for establishing goals in teaching mathematics. Criteria cover staffing, leadership, professional development,…

This monograph contains presentations from a training program that was designed to link state vocational rehabilitation agency personnel with the current technology of program evaluation in rehabilitation settings. Part One discusses a model program evaluation unit in state rehabilitation agencies, state agency program evaluation units from the…

This report is a summary of the review of the Defense Language Institute (DLI) that was made by the General Accounting Office (GAO) at the request of a member of Congress. The objectives of the study were to identify and analyze significant internal DLI problems that diminish the overall effectiveness of the language training provided there.…

The purpose of this paper is to state how one university administrator perceives with deep concern the future of the discipline of geography in undergraduate education, to explain how administrators are being harmfully forced to evaluate academic programs and departments, and to offer recommendations for minimizing these serious threats. Two…