This evaluation instrument for secondary school physical education programs was developed by a task force after study of many evaluation instruments for schools, colleges, and physical education programs. There are 10 components in the evaluation form: a) an overview of the athletic department, b) administration of the athletic program, c)…

According to a new law, state testing in California should be directed toward broad program evaluation rather than the diagnostic assessment of individual students which should be the responsibility of each local district. The data from the state testing program is used primarily for public information and to facilitate decision making at the…

This report presents the findings from an evaluation of the classroom processes of the twelve Planned Variation sponsors. Three basic issues were addressed: (1) To what degree are the programs really different and providing distinct treatments? (2) To what extent are the educational goals of each program actually implemented? and (3) Is there a…

This report presents an analysis of data used to evaluate Project CHILD (Curriculum to Heighten Intellectual and Language Development). The curriculum was designed for use with disadvantaged preschool children and was field tested in two schools in central Harlem, New York City. The objectives and methods of the curriculum, as well as background…

Theoretically, inservice provides enrichment through a variety of activities. Unfortunately, many are not designed for individual needs and teachers are unable to relate to purposes of inservice. This model bases inservice on the implications and recommendations resulting from program evaluation using the Kunkel-McElhinney model. Following…

This study evaluates the Community-School Relations Workshops, a component of the Learning and Action through Social Education and Reading (LASER) program. The workshops are designed to help school-community representatives to work on problems of mutual concern. The study considers two questions: (1) Assuming the workshop is capable of bringing…

A 1-year (1972-1973) program for 40 gifted children in grades 1-6 involved identification, implementation, and evaluation. On State (California) mandate for initiation of an enrichment program for the gifted, the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale was used to identify students with IQ scores of at least 130. Program development (limited by funding…

Graduate school is a game for which students need to know the rules and in which students must be willing to play. It marks the end of undergraduate study and the beginning of entrance into a society of the elite. Some of the problems students usually encounter in graduate school are limited social life, adjustment to work loads, disparity between…

This review summarizes the literature concerning evaluations of the Open Admissions Policy at CUNY from September 1970, when it was initially implemented, to Aguust 1974. The summaries are categorized under six headings: (1) research reports, containing data on the impact of the open admissions policy on students; (2) research reports, containing…

Project PLAN was chosen as a computer managed individualized instruction program for the St. Louis public schools and is evaluated in this final report. The study was conducted during the 1972-73 school year in both control and PLAN classrooms for grades 1-7. The Metropolitan Achievement Test was used in grades 1-3 and the Iowa Test of Basic…

This presentation identifies one of four kinds of evaluation--impact evaluation--existing today for career education programs. Impact evaluation provides four essential sets of information: (1) all data necessary to determine if a program should be continued; (2) a determination of which alternative program achieves the greatest gains at a given…

Focusing on the Right to Read program in Arizona for the 1970s, sections in this pamphlet concern the national Right to Read effort, the history of Right to Read in Arizona, the reality of the reading crisis, specific activities comprising Arizona's program, the proposed plan of action, the twenty local education agencies identified as Arizona's…

An internship program involving university students placed in public school classrooms for a full year was initiated through the cooperative efforts of Wright State University and the Yellow Springs, Ohio school district, an innovative district which embraces the concept of individually guided education and which utilizes team teaching at all…

In order to evaluate the Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges program at the University of South Carolina, a brief opinionnaire was developed to sample student opinions concerning the program. During early March 1974, the opinionnaire was sent along with a self-addressed, campus-return envelope to the leaders of all 161…

The Computer Based Project for the Evaluation of Media for the Handicapped conducted a study to determine teachers' attitudes toward the project and his/her knowledge of project operations. Twenty-three teachers participated in interviews focused on three major areas: the student, the teachers, and the project. An interview checklist of 12 items…