This article discusses the evaluation of public health in communities, examining common indices, evaluation methods, and uses of findings. (JMB)

The rationale for this article is to propose that certain types of programs be matched with the appropriate evaluation techniques so that valid information can be provided to the funding agency, decision-makers, and the public. (Author)

The authors criticize the value-free notion of social science and evaluation. They particularly assail relativists, those who confuse the making of reliable value judgments with how these value judgments are used. (Author/PN)

The benefits of business gaming seem to have become accepted without sufficient scientific support. While support for some claims based upon expert opinion is probably sufficient encouragement for continuing the use of business games, empirical validation is still a necessity. (Author)

Author cites the need for semiprofessional evaluators, evaluation-technicians, who can perform basic evaluation work required by schools; who will not need the diversified, extended skills obtained in graduate programs. (Author/HB)

Suggests a framework for analysis of a PPB success which can be used for subsequent cross-case comparisons. The framework consists of two major elements: (1) a typology of success variants which is useful in determining degrees of success and (2) a set of causal variables, both technical and behavioral, which can be employed in determining what…

Most Manpower educators will be attracted to the last paragraph where the author offers an evaluation model on request. (Editor)

Lengthy inventories could be compiled of ways to continue one's education after completing high school. But post-secondary institutional diversity has not yet obviated the need for instruments of assessment and evaluation. (Editor)

Vocational rehabilitation centers need to improve both client evaluation by upgrading the role of the work evaluator and work adjustment programs with specified goals to be achieved by each individual client. (Author/AG)

An attempt is made here to summarize briefly some of the challenges facing curriculum evaluation and evaluators. Further, suggestions are made for policy decisions and directions that research and applications might take. (Author/CB)

A warning against the wholesale adoption of business ideology by the educational system, and an argument for starting educational change at the local school level first. (SP)

"The individualized instruction explosion has created a need for materials with specific objectives." The author "develops a possible code for evaluating these items." (Editor/AK)

Presented here are two different sets of criteria with which instructional developers evaluate projects and the profoundly different consequences they hold as to the type of development program which results. These two sets of criteria result from two basically different positions in instructional development - development of products versus…

Discusses the Massachusetts and New York Evaluation Service Center for Occupational Education at Amherst, Massachusetts, which seeks to develop a mechanism to provide a continuous feedback of program evaluation information to local education agencies offering occupational education. (Author)