A 6-week summer institute on experimental design was conducted for public school personnel who had been designated by their school administrations as having responsibility for research together with some time released for devotion to research. Of the 32, 17 came from Indiana, 15 from 12 other states. Lectures on statistical principles of design…

The apprenticeship system in the United States is a method of training for a vocation or skilled trade within the framework of a relatively free labor market. It is a system which furnishes training through employment and one which is affected by the employment level of a given period. This is particularly important as the apprenticeship typically…

Recent regulations of the Commissioner of Education recognize the need for local school districts in the State of New York to extend existing programs or to develop new ones designed specifically to meet the needs of pupils who fail or underachieve. Guidance counselors contribute importantly to these programs. Some of these ongoing programs,…

In an experiment designed to assess the relative influence of "objective," social, and political factors upon school decisions, 168 principals read a description of a fictitious school program followed by informative reflections from three sources: tests, peers, and superiors. They then rated their own inclination to adopt the program. The…

A checklist with five major categories is presented and discussed for its use in planning and carrying out an assessment program. Three other outlines are briefly presented for comparison: Stufflebeam's Meta-Evaluation Criteria; Scriven's Checklist for Evaluating Products, Producers, and Proposals; and Stake's Table of Contents for a Final…

This report contains three sections, the first of which is an introduction. This section states that the purpose of this report was to assess the initial group of projects sponsored under Public Act 761 of the General Assembly of Connecticut, and to weigh the broader implications of the rationale underlying the Act. It is explained in this section…

The document is concerned with the accomplishments of the Region Five Adult Basic Education Staff Development Project. An introduction and background information are followed by a review of the 10 objectives achieved in phase two. Succeeding brief sections provide a review of the management and decision-making process; a list of Region Five Staff…

In 1974, the Education Commission of the States (ECS) began to develop an innovative program to involve the total education system in seeking solutions to one of society's oldest problems--alcoholism. This report reviews the first year's activities of the task force, presents preliminary findings and outlines goals for the coming year. To provide…

This progress report contains a summary of an evaluation of the Cycle I field trial of the Social Conflict and Negotiative Problem Solving instructional system, which was developed by the Improving Teaching Competencies Program of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. The evaluation was done to document the field trial workshop, collect…

This study established nine categories which taken together define the open classroom. Three open classrooms at the grade levels four to six were used for this study. To gather the data the classrooms were observed, literature was reviewed, interviews were taken, and audio and video equipment was used. The data was then analyzed, and the…

This is the sixth annual evaluation report of the South Carolina Advisory Council on Vocational and Technical Education. Information is provided about program growth in terms of enrollment figures, changes in enrollment from 1973-74 to 1974-75, and number and types of programs. The State goals for vocational and technical education are presented,…

The objective of this research is to provide an outline of evaluation by objectives for a conference entitled Project Evaluation. As far as processes are concerned, this evaluation will result in a session-by-session evaluation form and transparencies to accompany the session-by-session evaluation form and to reinforce the main points under…

Concerned with the problem of determining program costs as part of the evaluation process, this article helps the practitioner arrive at useful conceptions of the term "cost" and procedures for assessing the costs of an educational program. Its purpose is to help design costing procedures for evaluation situations that are commonly encountered. An…

The Purpose-Process Curriculum Framework (PPCF) is a guide for making curricular decisions that takes into account the overall merit of the curriculum and the merit of specific objectives. One approach to implementing this framework is to utilize a grid with the purposes represented across the top and processes represented along the side. Assume…

"The Electric Company" (TEC) uses a television format to introduce young viewers to the concepts of phonetics and word recognition. Though its presentation is intended to strengthen fundamental reading skills, some presentations tend to confuse viewers because they mix the essential attributes of print code with the incidental attributes…