Focusing on helping teachers to understand and help children who have reading disabilities, the 13 papers in this volume were prepared by practitioners at various levels from public school, community, and university settings. The papers included in part one offer insights into the concomitant aspects of reading difficulties. Specific topics…

Over 100 academic administrators, professionals in English, and writers responded to a request to annotate a sample paragraph written by a college student at a minimum skill level. Responses varied to extreme degrees in several areas, with letter grades ranging from B to F and annotations ranging from declaring the student's situation hopeless to…

This paper describes a series of in-service workshops on the teaching of writing, conducted for elementary and secondary teachers. After a brief overview of the way in which the workshops were planned, the paper examines the topics dealt with in the workshops: the composing process, varieties of writing, skills of writing, mechanics and…

This guide in Spanish provides performance criteria for evaluating the foreign language teacher. It provides an outline for analyzing the teacher's actions and teaching methods in the classroom. Through the evaluation by an outsider, the teacher can learn his or her faults in the views of others and can improve on them. The aspects to be analyzed…

This annotated bibliography of publications by the Wisconsin Research and Development Center for Individualized Schooling provides teachers and administrators with information sources that could improve individualized instruction and learning in elementary and secondary schools. Seventy-one technical reports, theoretical papers, and working papers…

Sixty-one evaluation products developed or published by universities; federal, state, intermediate, and local educational agencies; commercial publishers; private research and development agencies, and others are described, to help potential users identify, select, and obtain useful materials. Potential users include teachers; administrators;…

The cross-levels hypothesis is presented as an explanation for program evaluation failures. It states that the usefulness of evaluation data as feedback for decision making varies inversely with the number of organizational levels between the action the data describe, and the decisions they are intended to influence. To be useful for decision…

The British Columbia Social Studies Assessment program gathered information about: (1) students' knowledge, skills, and opinions of society and social studies; (2) the reaction of various publics to student performance; (3) the relationship of school and non-school factors to student performance; (4) professional and non-professional views of the…

A methodology for evaluating the service area of a community college and determining potential student markets is discussed. It is suggested that because of locality-based operations, projected higher education enrollment declines may be felt severely by community colleges. Because of the special nature of examining a specific geographical area,…

Guidelines and objectives are detailed for the initial implementation of Lorain County Community College's Long-Range Plan for 1978-83. The document first describes the planning cycle by which the five-year plan is to be updated annually and outlines eight steps to be implemented in the planning process: (1) prioritization of plan objectives by…

Presented is an evaluation of a leadership training program to prepare junior high school teachers to use the Introductory Physical Science Curriculum. Emphasis of the leadership program is on administrators and their problems, leaders and their problems, and teachers. Recommendations are given. Included in the appendices are sample letters of…

Presented is a description of the Education and Experience in Engineering (E3) Program at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Included are the objectives, how the program works, faculty, dissemination of E3 information, integration of science and technology into the E3 program, and the integration of liberal arts and engineering. A chapter is…

The paper explores various aspects of evaluation of interdisciplinary programs in social sciences at the college level. Program evaluation is concerned with changes in student knowledge, skills, and attitudes as a result of participation in a given program. It is also concerned with resources, priorities, quality, and results of specific…

This document contains the third of five volumes reporting the activities and results of a career education evaluation project conducted to accomplish the following two objectives: (1) to improve the quality of evaluations by career education projects funded by the United States Office of Career Education (OCE) through the provision of technical…

It is presumed that those reading this book presently own and operate a central control and monitoring system (CCMS) or plan to implement one in the near future. One objective of this workbook is to present useful knowledge from case histories of members of the Association of Physical Plant Administrators of Universities and Colleges as well as…