The effect of participation in a series of workshops about citizen involvement in civic affairs on locus of control, life satisfaction and anomia among the aged population in the Piedmont region of North Carolina was investigated, as well as the extent to which certain personal and situational characteristics of respondents were associated with…

A questionnaire designed to ascertain measures of teachers' satisfaction with their preprofessional training is described. The Teacher Education Program Evaluation (TEPE), developed for this purpose, is in the process of being refined. The validity of this instrument is discussed, and its reliability is evaluated. The results of a comparison study…

TEMPER 66 WAS A COMPUTER SIMULATION EXERCISE IN ECONOMIC, MILITARY, POLITICAL, AND DIPLOMATIC DECISION MAKING AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL INTRODUCED INTO THE INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE OF THE ARMED FORCES AS A CAPPING EXPERIENCE FOR THE STUDENT BODY. A 29 ITEM QUESTIONNAIRE ADMINISTERED AFTER THE PLAY WAS ANALYZED IN THE LIGHT OF CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MODEL TO…

The Gateway Technical Institute's followup study on former adult basic education (ABE) students is examined in this report, which focuses primarily on the process of the study. Since the Gateway study complemented objective measures of program effectiveness with a perspective that is often missing in program evaluations, namely, former…

In the spring of 1975, three alternative secondary schools in the Federation of Alternative Schools, with the help of the Minneapolis Public Schools' Research and Evaluation Department, surveyed their students. The 66-item questionnaire, which was developed to provide an overall assessment of student attitudes and information for program…

A Formative Evaluation Questionnaire and a Summative Evaluation Questionnaire, developed specifically to assess the Institute's goals and objectives, were administered to the participants. Administered midway through the Institute, the 13-item Formative Evaluation Questionnaire was composed of 2 parts designed to secure information about their:…

Two hundred fourteen graduates of seven occupational disciplines constituted the survey population for this 1970-74 follow-up study. The 141 usable responses to the mail survey represent a 65.9 percent rate of return. The survey instrument was desgined to initiate responses from the graduates in terms of: (1) appropriateness of the course of study…

An analysis of the student and teacher attitude questionnaires revealed a strong difference between teachers and students in their experiences with Virginia Beach 45-15 program where students attend classes 45 days and break 15 days year round. Teachers were almost in total support of the benefits and advantages of 45-15. Students were more…

During the fall of 1975, career program coordinators at Johnson County Community College (JCCC) contacted students who graduated from their programs that year and non-graduates who left with marketable skills. The study population consisted of 177 graduates, 41 non-graduates with marketable skills, and 7 hearing impaired students. Contact was made…

In accordance with the goals of the Rehabilitation Counselor Education (RCE) accreditation movement, the Council On Rehabilitation Education (CORE) contracted the research aspects of the accreditation project to the University of Wisconsin-Regional Rehabilitation Research Institute to develop a series of data gathering instruments to assess,…

Three 3-day assessment workshops were held in Boulder, Colorado from June 19-29, for personnel in the assessment field from state departments of education. Seventy-six participants from 35 states, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia attended. Two of the three workshops concentrated on National Assessment as one model for…

This report reviews evaluations of two instructional systems that the faculty of the College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, are now using in their extramural teaching. The systems are (1) "Univex Net," which transmits audio and visual signals via telephone lines from one campus classroom to another classroom located somewhere…

The Course Attitude Questionnaire (CAQ) has been administered 100,000 times in 3,500 classes at the Pennsylvania State University since 1964 with extensive use in modified form at other institutions. The purpose of this research was to investigate the reliability and internal validity of the CAQ and the temporal stability of its original factor…

The survey was designed to find out how the Extension Home Economists' lessening contact with extension study groups (ESGA) affected the clubs, the image of the home economist among club members, ideas for improving the ESGs, and to compare areas of the State. Research procedures included the use of a questionnaire and detailed instructions to…

Forty-two individuals, comprising teams of three people from 14 states, attended a conference planned to: (1) assist vocational leaders in developing the intent, nature, and possible structure(s) of vocational curriculums at different levels, (2) cause participants to understand implications and provisions current legislation has for professional…