The Bryant-Anthony-Ramsey (B-A-R) Project is a desegregation/integration project aimed at assuring a smooth transition from a predominately segregated school environment to a desegregated or integrated environment. The Bryant, Anthony, and Ramsey Junior High Schools are participants in a desegregation effort that is one part of an overall…

Adjunct instructional materials are questions and answers keyed to a text. The adjuncts for the study were prepared for textbooks used with two Air Force ROTC courses. Over 400 students at two universities served as subjects. Four experiments were conducted using a counterbalanced repeated measures design. Students used adjunct materials for…

The report describes the accomplishment of the objectives of a project, the overall purpose of which was to disseminate a video-taped adult basic education teachers training program (Basic Education: Teaching the Adult) to interested institutions of higher education in 10 educational regions. The 10 objectives dealt with conducting regional…

Evaluation services to be provided during 1975-76 to projects funded under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I are listed in this annual booklet. For each project, the following information is provided: goals to be assessed, evaluation techniques (design), and evaluation milestones. Regular term and summer term projects reported on…

This report evaluates five NIMH (NIDA) -administered drug education projects for their operations and effectiveness. Findings and recommendations are presented in Part I, while the second section utilizes a process model and specific observations to discuss a variety of dimensions of drug education procedures. (Author)

The purpose of this practicum was to comply with the recommendations of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education Evaluation Team by evaluating the competencies developed by the Teacher-Media Librarian Program at Trenton State College. A two-part questionnaire was developed that covered the teacher education competencies and the…

The report to the North Carolina State Board of Education regarding the status of adult basic education (ABE) in the 57 institutes belonging to the North Carolina Community College System is presented in two parts. The first part consists of an overview of the operations of the ABE program, which offers educational opportunities to undereducated…

Presented is an evaluation of the first annual Northern Virginia Conference on Gifted/Talented Education held April 30 - May 1, 1976. Listed are details of the agenda, keynote speakers, mini-lab leaders, mini-lab sessions, conference participants, budget, and geographical areas represented. Evaluation information is provided on specific program…

The arguments for evaluation as a service versus evaluation as an accountability function are debated. Proponents of the evaluation as service approach often argue that information requested for self-renewal is the information most likely to be used while those who favor accountability as the appropriate role for evaluation claim that people will…

The general objective of the study was to provide useful information regarding the effectiveness of various components of the HCHT program. GRC field teams spent two weeks (a full training cycle) at each of the two centers, observing the training processes. Pre-training and post-training questionnaires were administered to trainees at each center.…

This study comprised part of the evaluative research of the Experimental Schools Program (ESP) in Tacoma, Washington. Its purpose was to determine educators' perceptions of (a) the character of ESP schools, and (b) the extent of change in the district owing to ESP intervention. A questionnaire was developed concerning possible outcomes, services,…

This paper is the result of a limited analysis of the WICHE internship program directed by the Urban Studies Center at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon. The methodology used for analyzing the internship program was carried out primarily through the use of 2 questionnaires. One was used for the interns and the other for…

During 1971, Carl Goebel prepared for the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) a report entitled "Evaluation of the WICHE Intern Program in the State of Oregon." In this evaluation he pointed out a number of the deficiencies, as well as the strengths of the program. In concluding, Goebel made a number of suggestions…

The Adult Basic Education (ABE) teacher-training institute held at Mississippi State University, was a joint effort of the Mississippi State Department of Education and Mississippi State University. The main efforts of the instruction were directed toward the preparation of teams of teacher-trainers who would responsible for the planning,…

This paper looks at the issues and problems involved in the evaluation of competency-based teacher education programs. A major fallacy of CBTE programs is that they are based on the following implicit assumptions which have little theoretical or empirical support: (a) that there is much more agreement than the literature indicates on the goals and…