This handbook offers a practical model for developing a comprehensive faculty evaluation system that responds to the specific needs, concerns, and characteristics of faculty and administration in an individual academic unit. The eight steps of the model are: (1) determining the faculty role model; (2) determining faculty role model parameter…

Results of a survey of preservice and follow-up evaluation practices at teacher education institutions are reported and interpreted. Findings include: (1) more institutions are evaluating their programs than reviews of the literature indicate; and (2) teacher educators need assistance with developing and conducting program evaluation. (PP)

Presents an overview of common mistakes in 1975-76 career education program evaluation: reporting weaknesses, particularly problems of omission; content of questionnaires and interviews; student sampling errors; and problems in research design and in the programs themselves. Notes evaluation needs and suggests improved evaluation questions. (MF)

Illustrates why teachers ought to evaluate their own teaching, showing how personal involvement in the evaluation enhances the significance of the results. (RL)

Advantages and limitations are presented regarding the training and education potential for video communications in industry (particularly closed-circuit television), and some requirements for planning and application are also listed. (MF)

This preliminary study developed and verified focus group questions to be used to investigate the impact of school restructuring on students with disabilities. Validated the appropriateness of case-study methodology as a model for studying the impact of restructuring and identified major issues and study questions accompanying restructuring. (RJM)

Identifies areas of research needs in information science that were compiled from a review of the "Annual Review of Information Science and Technology." Areas highlighted include automated systems, including criteria, standards, evaluation, and legal issues; economics; indexing; information retrieval; and information seeking, including…

Discusses the undereducated U.S. workforce and the resulting need for workforce education. Highlights include personalized systems of instruction; individualized instructional programs; cognitive processing; prior knowledge; time on task; feedback and assessment; metacognition; motivational links; and the need for a multilayered approach to…

Suggests that research on teacher telecommunication networks such as LabNetwork must examine how a network contributes to the teaching practice and professional development of rural teachers and must be embedded in an understanding of the conditions of rural teaching. Discusses network potential to provide space for a professional "community…

Presents a framework for academic staff that explains aspects of managing course design. The main activities described are planning, including setting objectives and budgeting; leading, including decision making, motivating, and communicating; organizing, including designing an organizational structure; and controlling, including developing…

Describes the author's experiences in serving as a program evaluator for an Engineering Criteria 2000 accreditation visit and preparing for the visit to her own department. Examines how constituency "buy-in" and closing of the improvement loop affect evaluation and institutionalization of a program improvement process. (Contains 16 references.)…

Describes American Memory, a multimedia computer system that incorporates CD-ROM and videodisk to provide access in electronic format to some of the Library of Congress archival materials on American history. Highlights include participating libraries; contents of the collections; searching; evaluation; and examples of the system's use at Barnard…

Leadership is about transformation. It is the opportunity to transform people, places, and possibilities. The purpose of the study reported in this article was to identify means to assess leadership development and performance. Although leadership development and performance can be assessed, school systems often lack consistent methods,…

Many reports of successful school-based intervention programs suffer from an overestimation of the real effects, errors which many times arise from statistical technicalities. An illustration of such overestimations, as seen through a reanalysis of data on a successful program, is reported in this paper. The data were reevaluated using a variety…