The issue of evaluation in adult literacy is addressed in this paper. It is assumed that evaluation is a necessary and vital function in an adult literacy program because it helps administrators understand their efforts, increases information available about a program's functioning, builds an image, and facilitates the discovery of information on…

A "formal information inventory" survey method was used to help educate a university campus about outcomes assessment while identifying assessment activities already being undertaken. The survey was sent to 102 individuals identified as being responsible for, or having knowledge of, any assessment activities within a department or area,…

The author criticizes a number of research designs in which he finds two recurring defects: (1) the differentiation between research and evaluation, with the belief that the two concepts are incompatible, and that if one objective is chosen as the field of action, the other must be avoided; and (2) the nature of evaluation itself. This second…

Organizational effectiveness ought to play a role in educational evaluation, and the development of alternative perspectives for viewing organizations could be a starting point for revisiting organizational evaluation in education. Five possible perspectives and criteria for evaluating organizations have been developed. If an organization is…

EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTION AND EVALUATION IN LITERATURE STUDY DEPEND UPON PRECISE DEFINITION OF BEHAVIORAL OBJECTIVES. BECAUSE OF EASE IN TEACHING AND EVALUATION, CURRICULUM AND TESTING IN LITERATURE ARE DOMINATED BY COGNITIVE SKILLS OF CONTENT RECALL AND RECOGNITION, CLASSIFICATION, ANALYSIS, AND INTERPRETATION. TEACHERS TEND TO CONCENTRATE ON…

Metaphor, ethnography, and other qualitative alternatives to the traditional goal-based experimental approach to evaluation have been presented recently. Among the issues associated with the experimental approach are those of preordinate specification and explicit definition. Though the former has received much attention, the latter requires…

Designed for use with the Research for Better Schools career education program, this evaluation planning manual focuses on procedures and issues central to planning the evaluation of an educational program. Following a statement on the need for evaluation, nine sequential steps for evaluation planning are discussed. The first two steps, program…

This document discusses how to conduct a needs assessment for inservice teacher education. It states that the form or method of conducting a needs assessment must be decided upon after first considering teacher preferences, cost, and the capabilities of the local organization implementing the survey. Three methods of conducting needs assessment…

This report examines some of the issues and practices currently receiving attention in schools and colleges related to establishing an effective means of encouraging the writing competencies of young persons. Some of the suggestions include a shift in instructional approaches as far as elective and required courses are concerned; examining and…

The document examines the need to develop and implement more adequate evaluation methods for broad-aimed adult education programs, and presents some suggestions. Broad-aimed adult education programs are described as those which seek to affect the quality of the learners' lives through education and to help learners cope more effectively with their…

This paper, from the Workshop Center for Open Education, brings together articles dealing with the evaluation of change and the change of evaluation in the public school systems. The document is divided into four main sections: a) Issues and Perspectives, b) Alternative Approaches, c) Documents, and d) Fiascos. The first section deals with…

Four deficiencies that exist in the research literature that must be remedied before more conclusive answers about the effects of innovations in the teaching of psychology are examined. These deficiencies are: (1) failure to accurately describe teacher and learner behaviors involved in experimental and control treatments; (2) failure to…

The absence of systematic analyses and syntheses of data from hundreds of documents relating to compensatory education constitutes justification for a study unifying and evaluating already available information. Section One of this document introduces the need for such a study and discusses problems and procedures used in conducting and…

Current evaluation activities in the New Jersey school system are surveyed, and recommendations for future evaluation efforts are made. The current activities and future developments of school (or school district), statewide, and project (or program) evaluation are discussed individually. The following program objectives are suggested: to raise…