A second year evaluation of the educational television series "Sesame Street consisted of a new study to determine the effect of the revised second year curriculum goals and a followup study to determine the effects of a second year of viewing Sesame Street and the effect of the program on children who entered school after viewing for one…

The last phase of the NHTSA-U.S. Coast Guard Driver Improvement Training and Evaluation Project is described. Begun in July 1970, the project had two basic objectives. The first was to determine whether or not driver training programs do, in fact, significantly reduce driver errors and accidents and improve overall driver efficiency. The second…

The purpose of the Elementary Career Awareness Project's inservice program was to identify components of the career awareness process that were guidance oriented and to increase staff awareness of the guidance components that can be incorporated into the classroom. Briefly outlined are the goals, objectives, and activities of the three phases of…

Presented is the final report of the 2-year Connecticut "Parenting and the Exceptional Child" project, which provided approximately 100 professionals in the helping fields with training in leading parent groups concerned with managing the exceptional child in the home. Briefly reviewed are the project's five phases from initially…

A questionnaire designed to determine community opinion of its schools is presented. The questionnaire contains five sections that relate to: number of years lived in the community; number of children in Beverly Hills District schools and grades in which enrolled; best sources of information concerning the schools; newspapers read regularly, and…

This report contains summaries of the final evaluation reports for the projects, programs and centers of the 1972-73 institutional grant programs in the Division of Teacher Education at Indiana University. The summaries include the name of the project, the director's name, a listing of faculty and professional staff, and the number of male and…

This monograph suggests how colleges of teacher education that are attempting to develop and implement a performance-based teacher education (PBTE) program may avoid formulating one that is simply a new orthodoxy. Referring to the experience of the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Toledo as an example, the authors describe…

Practitioners are not afforded the luxury of ideal laboratory conditions. The natural settings of the classroom, the school, or the school system place constraints on the type of data obtainable; hence, educators must work with less than an ideal experimental design. Four evaluation designs used in natural settings are described. Each involves an…

This paper examines three ways in which attempts at program evaluation are most often thwarted. The first, fingerpointing, may be either positive or negative. It may be positive by pointing to the individual who is "doing a good job considering--", it may be threatening by expecting too much of any one individual (e.g. "Evaluation should be made…

This report is addressed to decision makers in the field of juvenile delinquency prevention and to those individuals who have an active concern for juvenile delinquency prevention programs. In addition, the report specifies those program areas which show promise for providing some degree of success and those areas which have clearly failed to make…

The development of a strategy for increasing pupil performance in the Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) Beginning Reading Program (BRP) is described in the introductory section of this document. This strategy, or support system, is embodied in "The Instructional Improvement Kit," presented as an appendix to the document. The kit is designed for…

A Teacher Observation Scale (TOS) was developed in order to compare the behavior of teachers using the material of project PLAN with those using conventional insturctional systems. The scale listed 17 categories of teacher behavior grouped under the headings: individual instruction, group discussion, behavior modification, systems management, and…

The college-level computer assisted instruction (CAI) courses, one in French, the other in Remedial English, were the bases for the data presented here. Each CAI course is briefly outlines. A summary is then presented of the students' completion records and attitude changes. In the case of the Remedial English course, it is noted that these…

In order to evaluate the employment success of Wisconsin vocational graduates and to measure the extent to which this success is attributable to the vocational program, the Center for Studies in Vocational and Technical Education conducted a followup study of 1,855 graduates. When only 55 percent of the graduates responded, a short form of the…

This descriptive community opinion survey reports the findings derived from a sample survey of attitudes relating to education and public schools in the Fort Lincoln area of Washington, D.C. Described are perceptions of both junior and high school students as well as adults. The first section describes the nature of the two surveys and the…