After a brief introduction and discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of questionnaires, this publication explains how to develop a questionnaire. Each of the five parts of a questionnaire (heading, procedural statements, items, comment space, and procedures for return) are discussed, with concrete examples. Guidelines for pre-test/tryout…

A project was undertaken to explore the prospects of conducting employer followup surveys concerning the graduates of a selected vocational program and to devise a procedure that would categorize the small number of employers to be sampled in such a way that useful data for possible program change could be obtained and analyzed. During the…

This report presents the field tests plan including site selection for the Basic Skill Development Through Vocational Education Project. (The project's purpose is to develop Resource and Teacher Guides to provide vocational and occupational education teachers with information about ways of incorporating basic skills instruction into occupational…

Based on data from site visits to local educational agencies and area vocational technical schools, this report details an evaluation of Georgia's vocational programs. The report is presented in two sections with identical formats. Section 1 contains an analysis of data from secondary programs, while section 2 focuses on data from postsecondary…

This document is a guide to the use of alternative assessments (surveys, interviews, observation measures, and performance samples) in a family literacy project. This resource guide focuses on using alternative approaches to identify learners' needs, determine learners' ongoing progress in meeting project objectives, ascertain overall success of…