Methods are suggested to measure the program appeal and audience attention of Children's Television Workshop productions. Among these are distractor techniques, one which permits subjects to discriminate between two simultaneously broadcast programs by selecting the audio track they most prefer and one used to rank order several programs.…

Taking the position that the Classical Experimental Evaluation (CEE) Model does not do justice to the process of acquiring information necessary for decision making re planning, programming, implementing, and recycling program activities, this paper presents the Inductive, System-Process (ISP) evaluation model as an alternative to be used in…

Activities of the Children's Television Workshop in producing its programs, Sesame Street and The Electric Company, and in producing of programing for the mentally retarded, ethnic groups, and community education services are summarized for a three month period. Staff changes and projected budget figures from September 30, 1975 to June 30, 1976…

The main purposes of this study were to identify the evaluation needs of students, teachers, and principals, and to develop recommendations for an evaluation system within the school building. Students, teachers, and principals were surveyed to depict the availability and importance of eight different categories of evaluative information derived…

A science education process model was proposed for ultimate use in research on science teaching. In this model, classroom interaction was presented as the middle component of a three-phase system. The on-going process of classroom interaction was viewed in terms of a communications model: interaction exchanges provided communications paths through…

An expanded duties role of the multiple-program evaluator as an integral part of the ongoing decision-making process in all projects served is defended. Assumptions discussed included that need for projects with related objectives to pool resources and avoid duplication of effort and the evaluator's unique ability to provide an objective…

This report presents a description of one attempt to gain some insight about the actual workings and quality of a particular formulation of the teacher education center concept. The report is organized to provide a background and rationale of the Kent State University Teacher Education Center (where the model has been implemented), the design and…

This paper outlines an evaluation system for elementary education based on cognitive and social development research. Piaget has defined certain core mental structures that develop in all humans in the same order. Both Piaget and Kohlberg have done work on the process of developmental change and the conditions necessary for optimal growth of the…

A procedure for using the concept of formative evaluation in student evaluation of instruction is presented. Sixty undergraduate students in an educational psychology course completed daily evaluations of every instructional program. The procedure was carried out quickly and efficiently through the use of a 5 point scale and a standard reporting…

The Southwest Regional Laboratory English Language and Concepts Program for Spanish Speaking Children (LCS) is designed to help Spanish speaking children produce and comprehend English language skills required in early elementary grades. The tryout exercised, under standard school conditions, the materials and procedures of the LCS instructional…

A theoretically-derived, easily employable, and widely applicable coding system for processing analysis of small group discussions is described. The system was constructed from established social influence theory, and pilot results from application of the system to group therapy interactions were presented. Eighty percent of all group…

Home Start: School for Parents is a parent education program with three major components: a Prototype School for Parents, a pilot television series, and a Manual for Parents on the infancy period. The prototype school is evaluated in terms of its impact on parents and infants, the manual and the television shows in terms of audience response and…

The project developed localized instructional materials about Madison and Wisconsin in an effort to help preserve the community's talents and cultural and educational resources for greater student use over an extended period. Teachers and coordinators field tested and evaluated the materials in thirty-four school districts. Children, from urban,…

Various actual experiences are illustrated which relate to the problem of making feedback useful, and certain methods and techniques are offered as possible ways of handling the communication problem. (CK)

This critique of the Phi Delta Kappa Study Committee on Evaluation's report opens with a short description of the report; its definition of evaluation as "the process of delineating, obtaining, and providing useful information for judging decision alternatives," its detailed description of the decision-making process together with…