Evaluating program outcome provides the verification that planners and policy-makers need to decide a program's future. Evaluating program process leads to the discovery of facts that explain outcomes, make goals specific, and improve delivery of services. (Author)

Emphasizes the need for improved evaluation of community education efforts. Outlines a conceptual framework for program evaluation and offers an operational definition of evaluation to serve as a guide for organizing and conducting evaluation of community education programs. (JG)

Discusses the importance of process evaluation in planning and improving community education programs. Offers a model for process evaluation and provides an example of how that model might be applied to a hypothetical community education program. (JG)

Summarizes nine program evaluation projects. Lists a source person for each project. (JG)

Viewing job placement as the keystone in a metaphoirical arch which represents the school's career development services (on one side, the educational structure; on the other, the world of work), the author sees it both as a source of feedback for evaluation and as a way of showing accountability. (Author/AJ)

This paper reports on a three year follow-up study of 43 heroin addicts who received detoxification services with a startling success rate of only 2percent. (Author)

The number of online degree programs offered by universities, both within the United States and in other countries around the globe, has expanded remarkably from the year 2000 to 2005. Recent research [Pond (2002), Twigg, (2001), Swail and Kampits (2001), Nielson (1997)] indicates that this rapid expansion has superceded the understanding of how…

The results suggest that a voluntary packaged instructional approach to the conceptual training of rehabilitation counselors appears promising, but greater effort is needed in developing the training materials if the program is to be effective. (Author)

Authors' research indicated that the "equal and alike" approach to education doesn't work for the American Indian either. (Editor/RK)

Discussed the striving for improvement in foreign language teaching programs through use of innovative instructional processes. (Author/RK)

An evaluation of the Bachelor of Science degree program in Gerontological Studies and Services (GSS) at York College of the City University of New York was undertaken. Participants in the study were enrolled in or had completed a gerontology course or had graduated with a GSS major. From a potential pool of 200 persons generated from alumni and…

A research project was initiated by the San Antonio Accreditation program to compare results of overlapping validations made with three instruments: San Antonio's Family Day Care Rating Scale (FDCRS), Dallas Child Care Partnership's Family Day Care Observation Instrument (FDCOI), and the National Association for Family Day Care's (NAFDC)…

This report summarizes the major activities and findings to date of the Career Ladders Research and Evaluation Project with respect to the five-year pilot-test currently underway in Arizona. Summary descriptions are given of each year's activities from 1985 to 1989: (1) development and planning for program evaluation; (2) application of research…

After seeing a keen interest stimulated by a residential course of political training, the executive of the Youth Movement (Democrazia Cristiana) in the province of Reggio Emilia (Italy) decided to abandon the traditional training methodology, which consisted of one or two residential courses evey year on current political issues on the party's…