This document lists publications relevant to performance-based teacher education published by the Research and Evaluation Department of the Minneapolis Public Schools from 1973 to 1975. (JD)

This paper evaluates the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA) Basic and Pilot Project Grant Programs. Among the major questions addressed in the evaluation were: What kinds of students participate in the programs, what kinds of districts and schools receive support, what are the funding patterns, how are the funds translated into services, how…

The Community-Based Program (CBP) Model was developed to achieve several major goals: 1) to provide learning experiences to children that are functional for them at the time, 2) to emphasize family and community participation and development, 3) to emphasize broad service delivery to the family (as opposed to educational service to one child), and…

Connecticut established a program of field agents in 1976 to link information resource bases and educational practitioners. All school districts in the state were served. The linkage involved sorting, storing, analyzing, packaging, and delivering information. The field agents concentrated on clients' perceived needs. The program was evaluated…

This volume contains the raw data and descriptive materials which form the basis of Volume I, "Analysis of the Demonstration." The information is divided into three categories: (1) description of the overall study plan, (2) compendium of user reaction to program, and (3) a chronology of critical events and their documentary basis. A…

In discussing some of the contradictions and dilemmas of bilingual education in American schools, this article shows the preponderant influence of social and political factors outside of the schools. (Editor)

The program is directed specifically toward providing the basis for granting college credit for learning experiences conducted by business, industry, private organizations, and government. The author studies the program's evaluation, faculty, materials, subject matter, transferability, and site visits to view their implications and foresee…

Two functions of highest priority for school library/media supervisors are continuing education and program evaluation. (Author/PF)

Psychology course offerings of 44 counseling graduate programs were surveyed as well as the preferences of students and faculty for a wide range of psychology course work. The ratings obtained raise questions about the need for transformation of curricula to meet contemporary psychological service needs. (Author)

Examines the effectiveness of peer tutors as a means of facilitating the reading achievement of other children reading below their grade placement. (Author)

Reports on a study conducted in the fall of 1974 to survey goal and objective setting efforts as a management activity in selected large public libraries. (Author/PF)

Properly used, evaluation can be--and should be--more than a tool for measuring performance and establishing value. If evaluation is to be a useful tool of the change agent, he will have to borrow concepts and procedures from educational evaluation and adopt them to his needs. (Author)

The clients were 123 clients referred for outpatient therapy over a one-year period. These clients of this particular mental health facility expected to receive advice and medicine quickly, from a male therapist who was younger than 50, and they expected that this advice and medicine would help them broaden their interests and gain new friends…