Evaluation in continuing education must be continuous, not a one-shot process. Steps in evaluating include: preparing goals and objectives, selecting starting points appropriate to the clients, determining programs and attitudes, measuring progress, interpreting evidence of progress, and then using the evaluation to help students by providing…

Suggested questions are offered that must be asked if full accountability within individual colleges and universitites is to be realized. It is suggested that failure to include trustees in evaluations of an institution's effectiveness will lead to the emergence of serious problems. (LBH)

Argues that how curriculum evaluations are conducted is more important than who conducts them, and stresses the need to make evaluations more systematic, more public, and more sensitive to differences in data needs at the various levels of decision making inherent in groups. (Author/JG)

The historical development of current controversy over the use of quantitative or qualitative approaches in evaluation is traced. (Author/PN)

The "CSE Program Evaluation Kit" is a series of nine books intended to assist people conducting program evaluations. This volume, the second in the kit, provides advice about planning an evaluation--from deciding on the major questions the evaluation is intended to address, through the general approach--and identifying the principal…

Author gives thourough treatment to alternatives evaluation purposes and problems. (Editor)

Summarizes the results of a symposium on research needed in community education. (Ball State University, April 1971.) Participants identified research and evaluation needs relating to (1) the state of the art, (2) a model for community education (theoretical), and (3) a future development strategy (developmental). (Author/JH)

Authors emphasize that evaluation should see ahead as well as behind, they point out some promising evaluation models and enumerate a few practical principles to remember. (Editor) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Procedures (Evaluation).

Describes a system that requires an individual to be accountable to other individuals for the management of programs.'' (Author)

The authors, both psychologists employed by a large British company, examine some of the difficulties that can occur when the training department of an organization is asked to train managers in the use of an appraisal program. (Editor/AN)

The League for Innovation in the Community College surveyed representative new developments in league colleges and disseminated the findings. (MS)

Classification or category systems are important for defining and introducing new concepts, such as decision management/facilitative v judgmental evaluations. Furthermore, category systems can lead to a reexamination or restatement of views of evaluation. (CP)

The author believes that in an organization such as MENC (Music Educators National Conference), long range-planning is, in essence, long-range hoping, and suggests that it is time for MENC to undertake a reevaluation of the GO (Goals and Objectives) Project as it applies to a new decade. (Author/KC)

Seven educators express their opinions on the types of research and evaluation efforts currently needed in music education. (SJL)