Analyzes the nature of external evaluation, its benefits and costs, and makes recommendations as to how evaluation can be improved to the collective benefit. (Author/PG)

Exhorts evaluators to perform better evaluations and cautions the would-be users of evaluation studies about using tools of performance measurement based on analyses performed by nonusers. (JF)

More critical self examination and study is needed if career education is to have a desirable long-range impact upon American education. Greater effort shoudl be given to the theoretical framework of career education, the existing conceptual problems and issues, and the assessment of career education programs. (Author/BP)

Studies were conducted by the American Institute for Research (AIR) under contract with the Department of Education (ED). An evaluability assessment determines the extent to which a program is ready for evaluation, the changes needed to make the program more manageable and accountable, and toward what questions a more extensive evaluation might…

TEACHERS, SUPERVISORS, AND ADMINISTRATORS OF VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE PROGRAMS SHOULD DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT A SOUND PHILOSOPHY OF CONTINUING EVALUATION AT THE LOCAL, STATE, AND NATIONAL LEVELS TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ON PROGRAM RESULTS AND KINDS OF ADJUSTMENTS NEEDED PRIOR TO THE MANDATORY NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL EVALUATIONS. SIXTEEN GUIDING…

A two-day workshop, conducted to study the different meanings of the concept of work evaluation, was participated in by representatives from rehabilitation facilities, work evaluation training programs, institutional organizations, and rehabilitation research and training centers. In addition, different types of patient populations were…

Specific evaluation design is a non trivial problem which must be developed through a set of procedures involving considerable study of the enterprise to be evaluated. Three criteria to be considered when an evaluator provides data for a decision maker are: (1) the percentage of the evaluation data that are actually used by the decision maker; (2)…

Though instructional development models stress the importance of formative evaluation, techniques for the formal evaluation of video tape programs remain primitive. The attention, attitude, and adoption levels achieved can be assessed by use of the following evaluation instruments: (1) expert appraisal of script; (2) special questionnaires; (3)…

Improvement of the student learning experience necessitates teacher evaluation. Evaluation optimally is an on-going process, involving the teacher as an active participant and decision-maker. Information is gathered and compared with pre-established criteria, resulting in decisions to modify techniques as necessary. Evaluative criteria are…

This speech discusses criteria for hiring, evaluating, and rehiring or discharging superintendents by school boards. The presentation stresses that most board evaluation methods are weak and suggests a superintendent evaluation checklist such as the one used by the Fort Worth Board of Education as a workable remedy. (JF)

This evaluation was conducted to: (1) develop a programmatic assessment of the existing guidance services within the secondary schools, focusing primarily on the perceptions and satisfaction of the recipients of these services; and (2) to project the needs for changes in services, programs, and organizational patterns, as these are dictated by…

The author offers some suggestions on how to involve teachers in the production evaluation process. (AK)