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…

This informal report contains the findings and recommendations resulting from the field test of the Hooke Unit of the "Individualized Science" program. Data were collected from three schools. Because of an unusual number of weaknesses ranging from formal inconsistencies to manipulative deficiencies, it was concluded that the Hooke Unit is somewhat…

The present research was initiated to investigate whether item-sampling as a procedure would yield a more accurate and stable index of student achievement during formative evaluation when compared to indices arrived at by the traditional method of assessing pupil knowledge and understandings within the framework of multiple choice testing for…

An on-site evaluation of the Miccosukee Day School (renamed Miccosukee Indian School) was conducted on June 4 and 5, 1975. Focusing on the education requirements of the Fiscal Year 1975 Contract, this on-site evaluation determined if the school's educational program was meeting its goals and objectives. Areas previously audited were designated as…

This document reports the first-year activities of Teacher Corps projects demonstrating the training framework entitled, Adaptation of Research Findings. These projects incorporate into their design the results of research, empirical practices and processes that have proven effective and relevant to the educational processes for schools serving…

The author examines the reading level of curriculum materials developed in Africa and discusses the findings which suggest that readability indices have a high potential of being useful in the formative stages of curriculum development. (Author/RM)

Research in art education must deal with the structure-in-process of creating, including both cognitive and intuitive approaches of human understanding. The Structural-Existential (S-E) Model can analyze this paradox. To exemplify the theoretical arguments, the author uses excerpts from contexts of creating in art. (SJL)