An intensive study of the K-12 instructional program of the Strongsville, Ohio, City School District was conducted during the 1974-1975 school year by the Educational Research Council of America. Survey teams gathered data and developed recommendations and suggestions for strengthening each subject area within the instruction program. The mental…

The objectives of the conference, determined by a Conference Steering Committee together with staff of the U.S. Office of Education, were: (1) to identify and promote effective methods and techniques for moving career education from a project status into an ongoing educational program status; (2) to determine and discuss major issues in the…

A program was proposed and initiated to involve teachers and administrators of the Smyrna (Delaware) School District in a thorough assessment of their reading programs. Using "Standards of Excellence for Reading in Delaware" and its accompanying checklist as the assessment instrument, committees in each building met with members of the…

One part of the work being done at the Center for the Study of Evaluation has been the development of kits to assist the staffs of elementary schools wishing to conduct evaluations. The third kit in the series provides specific techniques for conducting a formative evaluation, which includes verifying the extent to which a program has been…

Racial unrest, violence, and unemployment of youth have their roots in an inadequate education. Each year 750,000 people enter the job market without the necessary skills and attitudes for employment. Schools can prepare young people to realize their potential; the failure rate is so high because of improper attitudes, inadequate programs, and…

This manual is intended to provide an approach to evaluation of the effectiveness of vocational programs operating under the Vocational Education Act of 1963 and the state plan of Connecticut. It provides a basis for modification and improvement through program evaluation, not through teacher evaluation or the evaluation of specific techniques.…

In this document, which points out weaknesses in evaluation procedures and offers a new approach to the subject, it is suggested that in the area of the United States studied, the Title 1 program is drifting without direction, leadership, or system. This makes evaluation impossible. Evaluation is sometimes a description of a program and often…

This report evaluates a program which trained participants in the instructional design process and indicates how effective it was for training instructional design personnel. The program was administered to three separate groups on separate occasions (N=8, N=6, N=3). The program, being self-instructional, allowed students to work at their own…

The COPES Subsystem for the handicapped attempts to improve the quality and availability of occupational education for the handicapped student who attends a California community college. The subsystem facilitates achievement of its purpose by: (1) providing easily administered procedures for studying aspects of occupational education related to…

In this study of the current state of evaluation of health programs, which emphasizes the relationship between health status and poverty, four health programs are examined: Family Planning, Neighborhood Health Centers, Migrant Health Programs, and Comprehensive Health Services for Children and Youth. The study shows that the current health…

This survey of profession-wide accomplishments and failures in foreign language instruction, characteristic of the last two decades, is complemented by suggestions intended to spur teachers and educational institutions into initiating improvements in curriculum development considered to be vital to the survival of the foreign language profession.…

To identify inadequacies or irrelevancies in the home economics training program for teachers in Utah and to suggest methods of correcting them, data were collected from senior students in home economics education, cooperating teachers, and practicing secondary teachers who graduated from Utah State University, University of Utah, and Brigham…

An anecdotal review covers the first year of increased library service in Nye, Lincoln, and Esmeralda Counties, Nevada, under the Southern Nevada Library Services project funded by the Library Services and Construction Act. Using information from questionnaires and site visits, the extent of library services in each community in the area is…

An evaluation of the Douglas County (Kansas) Extension Program to determine clientele's level of awareness and acceptance of the program and program strengths and weaknesses, to establish new program directions and a base line for future evaluation efforts, and to develop methodology and materials to be used in evaluation. Procedures, findings,…

Discusses various elements of effectiveness in industrial training: the favorable image surrounding training, ease with which employees can enroll for courses, training as a tool of personal development, the evolution of training departments into professional staff units, and budgets. The efforts of training department management are also…