The North-South Dialogue Videotape Communication Project was an applied research program designed to assess the use of video programming as an aid to intercultural communication between isolated northern Canadian communities and southern educators. Project staff produced five video programs focusing on the culture and interests of northern people;…

Operating on a budget of $845,745, the 1979-80 Austin Independent School District Title I Migrant Program for current and former migrant children at preschool through high school levels centers around student recruitment and parental involvement, a pending at-home program for children aged 2-3, a pre-K through 12 instructional program, and health…

The New Hampshire Vocational Program Evaluation System (VPES) is designed to: (1) provide program improvement information; (2) provide information on local program effectiveness to aid in designing improvements; and (3) aid in complying with 1976 federal vocational education legislation. The evaluation system is divided into two components:…

Title I evaluations using the RMC Model C design depend for their interpretation on the assumption that the regression of posttest on pretest is linear across the cut score level when there is no treatment; but there are many instances where nonlinearities may occur. If one applies the analysis of covariance, or model C analysis, large errors may…

Included in this report are the questions that were asked of math and reading teachers, generalists, aides, and principals during the course of the evaluation, general observations made by the evaluator, and a discussion of observations and recommendations made by both the Title I staff and the evaluator. Each discussion focuses on the respective…

This manual contains an overview of a diagnostic/prescriptive reading program designed to teach basic skills to children in grades one through six and to foster their enjoyment of literature. The elements of the program discussed include the following: individualized skills instruction in phonetic analysis, word recognition, comprehension,…

Made up of five components, the School Planning, Evaluation, and Communication System (SPECS) is an approach to program planning and evaluation applicable to all instructional and noninstructional programs and activities. As such, it focuses on outcomes, processes, and inputs in a continuous cycle of planning, evaluation, and replanning. As well…

A report is presented on the joint evaluation session of intensive overseas language programs. The evaluation session was attended by representatives of the following federally-funded programs: American Institute of Indian Studies, Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Pakistan, Center for Arabic Study Abroad (Cairo), Cooperative Russian Language…

A model career preparation program for first-year engineering women at Purdue University is described. Key elements of this project, which is funded through the Women's Educational Equity Act, are: a course designed to provide engineering and career information and practical experience; a means of evaluating the methods and results; wide…

This volume presents a number of articles on different aspects of the Head Start Strategy for Spanish-Speaking Children written by participants in that effort. The first section describes Bilingual-Bicultural Curriculum Development and Evaluation projects and includes descriptions of four curriculum development projects and an evaluation of the…

Cooperation, sharing, and competence are the key ideas in the Victorian Country Education Project, a pilot project to be conducted in a limited number of rural areas in Australia in an effort to overcome problems peculiar to rural schools and communities and to search for new ways to provide those schools and communities with improved educational…

The Victorian Country Education Project (CEP), a pilot project searching for new ways of bringing beneficial educational experiences to disadvantaged rural areas, successfully achieved its aims of establishing community-based programs involving varied groups and people in developing solutions to local educational problems. A central Planning…

This manual contains information on two evaluation systems for occupational programs at California community colleges. For the first, COPES (Community College Occupational Programs Evaluation System), which is a self-evaluation process, a guide is provided as well as a set of seven evaluation forms for the college president, faculty, counselors…

In a four-section final report with its focus on methodology rather than on findings of particular follow-up studies, this project addresses two needs--to identify, review, and analyze vocational student and employer follow-up efforts at local, state, and federal levels, and to prepare training materials useful to individuals or groups at all…

Two aspects of criterion referenced testing are discussed: cutting scores and test length. Several practices in determining passing scores are enumerated: (1) setting passing scores so that a predetermined percent of students pass; (2) inspecting each test item to determine how important it is that it be answered correctly; (3) determining the…