The Illinois Board of Higher Education appointed a committee to review health professions education programs in Illinois and directed the committee to assess the educational needs in the health professions and the extent to which Illinois higher education is supplying qualified professionals to meet those needs. The committee also reviewed…

Not much research has been done on the factors that affect schools' willingness to undertake school-improvement efforts with the assistance of outside organizations. To address this lack, staff of the Quest project at AEL, Inc. conducted a multi-method exploratory study of issues considered significant to schools' engagement with reform. Focus…

A successful data collection system used to gather evaluative information about agricultural technician programs involves five components: an enrollee's report, second year student report, survey of early leavers, employer's report of graduates, and a graduate survey. A schematic diagram of the data collection process is included. (KP)

Management by objectives process used as a system for writing end of year reports and evaluating occupational education programs. (SN)

Why the dropout rate in apprenticeship programs is high, and ways to lower the rate and improve the programs. (MF)

Evaluating a federal agency's success in stimulating and broadening the program efforts of community organizations present a challenge to social science researchers. The authors describe a methodology developed and used effectively in one metropolitan area to measure program change. They identify and utilize the findings to show how greater change…

Measures of student attitude used to determine whether changes made during the formative evaluation of a computer assisted instruction (CAI) course and a new mobile CAI delivery system were viewed as improvements by persons taking the course via the delivery system indicated that the changes generated through the formative evaluation were viewed…

Community services, the only unique aspect of community colleges, needs faculty involvement and a separate administrative structure to be effective. (RN)

Describes development and problems of contract package," an agreement between state vocational rehabilitation agencies and rehabilitation facilities for some kind of guaranteed expenditure of funds for a guaranteed level of service. (Author/AG)

Reviews basic issues confronting current training programs and offers an analysis of their strengths, weaknesses, and limitations. (JM)

Needed evaluation of programs can be achieved by applying to the guidance process the learner based evaluation procedure being developed for use with classroom instruction: (1) evaluation of outcomes; (2) informed selection of materials; (3) subsequent identification of process variables related to goal achievement. Presented at APGA, Las Vegas…