Prime indicators for realistic short term/long term project goals are budgets and timetables. Concrets, identifiable objects are useful in separating eloquent rhetoric from actual promises. Similarly, an external evaluator should be able to separate proposals with intentional misrepresentation of funding and goals from those which need further…

The project to examine and improve the use of advisory committees in vocational education in Michigan produced this three-part document: a guide for the effective use of advisory committees, a report on the use of advisory committees, and a workshop leaders's guide. The self-instructional guide for the effective use of educational advisory…

The institution of Indian school boards in rural Indian communities and on reservations has accompanied a return toward local control in education. Local control by ethnic communities transforms power relationships, and this changes attitudes of educators toward students -- although local boards often lack the educational expertise to attempt…

To help solve the organizational and administrative problems preventing the educational system from fully meeting society's present and future needs, this project sought to: (1) analyze the system's strengths and weaknesses, (2) develop tentative guidelines for reorganization of 16 state vocational education systems, and (3) field test an…

This paper presents the sum of both individual research and the five papers specially prepared for the Upper Midwestern Region Interstate Project Constracting Conference (Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 9-10, 1972.) In particular, the various sections that comprise the publication speak to those aspects of performance contracting suggested for the…

The purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic procedure that uses evaluation data to improve an ongoing program during its in-progress stage. (Author)

An evaluation design created to provide information for a multiple-project program of educational experimentation is presented. Project SEED (State Experimentation in Educational Development) became an official education effort in North Carolina on July 1, 1971. Model for the program was that of the State's ESEA Title III program with certain…

In this first interim report on the feasibility of a United States changeover to a metric system stems from the U.S. Metric Study, a series of conclusions and recommendations, based upon a national survey of the role of SI (System's International) units in international trade and other areas of foreign relations, includes the following…

Evaluation activities should always be considered in terms of the effect that they have on the persons or programs being evaluated. This is a particularly critical concept when young children are being evaluated. Evaluation should be of some value to the persons or programs being evaluated. For example, when a Follow Through program is being…

This annotated bibliography is one of twelve prepared during the summer of 1970. Although the volume is not intended to be a thorough review of the literature, the recent publications and operating programs included in this bibliography are designed to help school personnel begin their inquiries and complete their day-to-day responsibilities.…

This report brings together ideas and information about evaluation that until recently were available only to academic theorists. The four substantive chapters that follow the introduction contain (1) a general review of the "state of the art" of evaluation theory and methodology, (2) an examination of an approach to evaluation that focuses on…

Historically, the college administration was the president alone, and the essential, if not only, qualification for the position was that he be a scholar. To meet the multifarious demands of running today's institution of higher learning, the president has been joined by an administrative team, each member specializing in a particular aspect of…

There are not enough incompetent teachers around to warrant building evaluation systems solely to get rid of them. To be effective in terms of increasing student learning, teacher evaluation programs should focus on helping competent teachers become better. The individualized performance objective or job target approach can do this. (SJL)

High school students, teachers, and principals were surveyed regarding their perceptions of the availability and importance of different types of evaluative information. Overall, all three groups perceived that evaluative information was only occasionally available, which indicating that such information was important. (Author/MV)

Since computerized information systems have not been able to satisfy the growing need for management information by higher education administrators, an alternative approach is described. It places the needs of decision-makers before those of systems developers and outlines a process for the collection, evaluation, analysis, and interpretation of…