Results are reported of an intensive evaluation of a statewide continuing education program in health care management based on interviews with program participants, their supervisors, and the administrators of their institutions. Focus is not how much knowledge was conveyed, but on how widely learning was reflected in improved management…

During fiscal year 1977, training workshops on the new ESEA Title I evaluation and reporting system were conducted for State level program administrators and evaluators. In this report, the workshop activities are documented. The purposes and development of the evaluation system and the technical assistance efforts are summarized, as an…

The Board of Regents (BoR) and State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) selected four external consultants to review and evaluate redesigned graduate programs for educational leaders and teachers. In addition, personnel from the Louisiana Department of Education reviewed all K-12 undergraduate teacher preparation programs and…

This paper describes the process of principal licensure reform in Iowa. Upon adoption of the ISLLC standards, the state department of education required revision of all principal preparation programs to conform to state code and guidelines developed by an external review panel. This paper analyzes the review process and compares five programs that…

Program evaluation strategies and techniques based on materials developed by the California Evaluation Improvement Project were discussed at this meeting of the Regional Interstate Planning Project (RIPP). RIPP members represent the State Departments of Education of ten western states, and have met periodically over the past nine years to discuss…

This annual report covers the operational year between July 1, 1971, and June 30, 1972, of Tennessee's Program IMPACT: Community Service and Continuing Education. The primary emphasis during the year was the encouragement of multi-instructional cooperative programming. This program thrust resulted in the first major Statewide multi-institutional…

The Board of Regents (BoR) and State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (SBESE) selected external consultants who possessed knowledge of current research and effective practices to review and evaluate redesigned programs for educational leaders and teachers. In addition, personnel from the Louisiana Department of Education reviewed all…

The Georgia State Department of Education engaged in the development of three Career and Vocational Teacher Education Centers (located at the University of Georgia, Georgia State University, and Georgia Southern College) during the 1972-73 school year. Their primary purpose was to provide an interdisciplinary approach to their teacher education…

Regional Interstate Planning Project (RIPP) participants meet periodically at conferences Sponsored by ten Rocky Mountain area state departments of education to discuss issues of general concern. A meeting was held July 21-23, 1976 in Denver, Colorado, to consider various means of effecting the educational future through evaluation. Excerpts from…

The annotated bibliography is divided into four main sections: planning and administration of training programs, planning and administration of executive development programs, supervisory development programs, and training methods. The first two sections contain subsections on evaluation, Federal programs, and State programs. The third section has…

One of a series of nine reports of Project ACTIVE (Attaining Competence for Teaching in Vocational Education), this report focuses on the criteria for assessing mastery of the professional competencies (skills) important to vocational educators involved in research and evaluation. An overview of competency-based vocational teacher education (CBTE)…

On-site evaluation visitations were made to seven institutions participating in fiscal year 1974 Education Professions Development Act (EPDA) 553 and 554 cooperative arrangement programs under the auspices of the Illinois Division of Vocational and Technical Education. A three-part evaluation instrument was designed and administered to project…

A training component for administrators and counselors was developed in Phase IV of a five-phase career education project for the State of Hawaii. Three goals were specified for Phase IV: (1) To develop a model for training school administrators and counselors in their role in career education, (2) to develop and test a set of materials for use by…

Inservice clinics for administrators and teachers were sponsored annually for three years by the Arizona State Department of Education, Division of Career and Vocational Education. As an aid in planning future clinics, a needs assessment was conducted of former participants. The procedures and results of the survey are presented in the report. The…

During the 1975-76 academic year, the California Mini-Corps, a component of the California Plan for the Education of Migrant Children, consisted of a summer and a school-year Teacher Assistant Program, the Medi-Corps Paramedical Program, a Teacher Intern Program, and an Administrative Trainee Program. Methodological approaches used to directly…