Selected aspects of the Adult Basic Education Program of the State of New York are evaluated, and the program's effectiveness in providing basic education that is suited to the capabilities, problems, interests, and needs of the adult participants is assessed. The evaluation and assessment are presented in three parts: Part I provides the setting…

A summary evaluation of the Crystal Lake, Illinois outdoor education program is contained in this document. The project entitled "A School-Community Outdoor Education Project" is a year round program for teaching in, for, and about the outdoors. Designed largely to assist teachers to meet educational objectives relating to the…

Part 1 of this monograph discusses the status of educational evaluation and describes several problems in carrying out such evaluation: (1) defining the educational setting, (2) defining decision types, (3) designing educational evaluation, (4) designing evaluation systems, and (5) defining criteria for judging evaluation. Part 2 proposes an…

The R&D Center in Teacher Education at the University of Texas is attempting to make significant contributions to teacher education through the development of teacher education modules. In order to make the most of their effort, a shift in focus from project to program is needed. This paper describes the development of a conceptual focus and a…

There is a definite need to establish a framework and a set of procedures for evaluating school psychological services. Studies reported to date tend to be fairly molecular and difficult to relate to program changes. The model proposed, a model of system evaluation, has the advantage of looking at the "Gestalt," of concerning itself with ways in…

A program for training indigenous leadership in coping with the problems of urban society is described in this report. The report is divided into seven parts. The problems of organizational group identification and selection are considered in Part I. Part II contains material concerning the seminar representatives' organizations; the…

The outline presented is an evaluation model which spells out guidelines for conducting an evaluation of special education programs and services. The guidelines define the duties of a full-time project coordinator or administrator, who provides the leadership for all the plans and procedures developed to conduct the evaluation. His…

This evaluation of Northeastern State College (N.S.C.) concerns the faculty, research, publications, and in-service activities. Research covered a) evaluation of graduates who teach in northeast Oklahoma public schools, b) a survey of training needed for business education intern teachers in terms of equipment, c) an evaluation of the speech…

The Illinois system has been designed to continuously evaluate the total occupational programs of its LEAs. Consisting of three phases, the system involves local planning, state review and evaluation of local planning documents, and on-site visitation to the LEA conducted by a team of individuals from outside the agency. The structure of the…

This meta-evaluation sought to evaluate the personnel, procedures, and impact of a statewide evaluation system. Personnel evaluation provided both formative and summative information, as well as information pertaining to future selection of evaluation personnel. The evaluation of procedures led to many revisions and refinements in the procedures…

Designed as a reference to contemporary evaluation approaches, this monograph brings together a variety of old and new frameworks and ideas about evaluation and shows how they are related to one another. Section I provides an overview of the contemporary evaluation scene. Section III presents summaries of over 50 approaches to evaluation from a…

The Office of Institutional Research conducted an evaluation of the Pass-No Pass (P-N) grading system at the University of Wisconsin-Stephens Point. The second semester, 1971-72, was chosen for the basis of evaluation. Sources of information include student records, a brief questionnaire sent to students who chose at least one P-N course, and a…

Some of the components of a good reading program are described so that parents can have a basis for judging the status of the reading program in their own child's school. The components identified are (1) a knowledgeable, enthusiastic administrator who understands the components of a good program and is sensitive to student and teacher needs; (2)…

This investigation inquired into Phase I and, to some extent, Phase II of the USOE Comprehensive Elementary Teacher Education Models Project, in which ten sets of specifications (program models) for elementary teacher training were developed using systematic planning procedures. The inquiry was designed to identify procedures for increasing the…

Cornell University Libraries maintains one central technical services processing department which processes all material for endowed division libraries. It is divided into four functional departments: acquisitions, serials, cataloging, and catalog maintenance. This report is concerned with the latter two functions. The present manual system of…