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Powers, Jerry M. – 1979
The St. Louis (Missouri) Citizens' Involvement Project was a joint effort between the Housing Authority's Tenant Affairs Board and the Board of Education. The program goal was to supplement Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I programs by fostering educator-parent-community cooperation in including teaching/learning strategies that would…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Citizen Participation, Community Cooperation, Community Education
Jones, Vernon A. – 1980
Historical information concerning Centres of Excellence in British Universities and the concept of excellence in relation to the roles and functions of the universities, the elements of excellence, and equality are considered. The term "centre of excellence" may be applied to an institution or department that has successfully specialized…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, College Administration, College Role, Departments
Moriyama, Bruce; Brumley, Leslie – 1980
Qualitative and quantitative data are presented in this evaluation of the curricular, personnel, and financial status of Miramar College's program in fire sciences. The report first provides the results of an interview with the program chairperson, which sought information on program objectives and goals and their determination, the extent to…
Descriptors: Average Daily Attendance, Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Community Colleges, Enrollment
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Office of the Chancellor. – 1980
Exemplary adaptations of the California Community Colleges' Student Accountability Model (SAM) are presented, based upon interviews with administrators at 37 colleges or districts known to have implemented SAM practices. After a description of SAM (a set of procedures for the follow-up of occupational students), the report examines the criteria by…
Descriptors: Accountability, Classification, Community Colleges, Computer Oriented Programs
Butler, Matilda; Bunker, Jane – 1980
A study designed to assess health education in public schools in California, Nevada, and Utah is reported. Results are compared to those of the School Health Education Study (SHES) which was conducted twenty years ago. Information is provided on the needs, goals, programs, participants, and materials of school health education in large, small, and…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Educational Resources
Rask, Glen – 1980
An evaluation determined the outcome and impact of the project "A Career Education Program for the Gifted and Talented in Rural Colorado" conducted by the South Central BOCES (Board of Cooperative Education Services) during 1979-80 in Pueblo, Colorado. (A project report is available separately--see Note.) Two evaluation instruments were…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Career Education, Career Planning
Anderson, Beverly L. – 1977
Presenting a formative evaluation of the 1976-77 Kodiak Island Borough School District Title IV Elementary Secondary Education Act Project involving 4 schools, 8 teachers, and 50 students in grades 9 and 10, this program evaluation addresses a model based on a philosophy of individualized and independent instruction employing self-paced and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administration, Formative Evaluation, Independent Study
Sork, Thomas J. – 1979
Research was conducted to develop and gather evidence of validity for a normative process model to be used by community adult education councils in establishing priority among community-level needs. The study design was based on a five-stage problem solving, systems model involving exploration, model building, design and development, validation,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Education, Conceptual Schemes
Cooper, Bruce S. – 1979
The purpose of this study is threefold: to recount the history of the Anacostia Community School Project (later renamed the Response to Educational Needs Project) in Washington, D.C. between 1967 and 1978; to analyze the events of the period in light of theories of historiographic and social scientific developments; and to provide lessons from the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Attitudes, Community Control, Curriculum Development
Thurston, Eric L., Ed.; Hafner, Lawrence E., Ed. – 1964
Focusing on new concepts in college reading, the papers in this volume were drawn from the thirteenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1963. The 20 papers are grouped into three sections, the first of which contains descriptions and evaluations of reading programs, a study of methods of training teachers for the…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Conference Reports, Higher Education
Jarvis, Gilbert A.; Adams, Shirley J. – 1979
This introduction to second language program evaluation begins with a rationale outlining the major issues involved in program evaluation. Procedures for evaluation are described, and examples are offered of goal statements, sub-goal statements, curriculum objectives, and learning objectives. Guidelines for judging a statement of aims are listed.…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Objectives
Elfner, Eliot S. – 1978
Resource allocation processes suitable for use in not-for-profit institutions are discussed and a conceptual model for resource allocation in institutions of higher education is presented. The objectives of higher education include the personal development and education of students, not merely the certification of students by conferring degrees.…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Administration, College Role, Conceptual Schemes
Steinmetz, Amber, Ed. – 1979
A review of objectives for the current five-year plan (1977-1982) and an annual report outlining progress made during 1979 are presented for each sub-committee of the Developmental Mathematics Curriculum Committee (DMCC) of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC). The sub-committee for hand-held calculators outlines a…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Calculators, College Mathematics, Community Colleges
McCowan, Richard J., Ed.; Cramer, Stanley H., Ed. – 1978
Developed by participants in a counselor educator conference, this manual is designed to provide performance-based life career counseling instructional materials for vocational counselor training. Two introductory chapters present a brief description of the genesis and evolution on the concept of life career counseling and a model for evaluating a…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Education
Abrams, Irwin; Hatch, W. R. – 1962
Study abroad is becoming a legitimate and valuable aspect of higher education. This report deals with the general status of programs of group study abroad as of the academic year 1959-60 and discusses objectives and problems of accreditation and evaluation of such programs. Individual study abroad is not included. Four program patterns of group…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, College Students, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
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