Presented is a paper, delivered at the 1975 Annual International Convention of the Council for Exceptional Children, on planning and implementing an educational program audit for gifted students (K-12) of the Rowland Unified School District in California. Briefly explained in the introduction are the roles of the district evaluator and the county…

A questionnaire designed to discover the effectiveness of a reading program model for secondary schools in the Los Angeles Unified School system was submitted to the junior and senior high school principals and 24 coordinators. Answers indicated that most schools considered most of the steps in the model, but that they varied the emphasis on…

Intended for directors of special education projects, the manual provides guidelines for program evaluation. It is explained that the manual developed out of the experiences of the staff of the Leadership Training Institute in Learning Disabilities which provided technical assistance to 43 state projects. The manual's eight major sections focus on…

This manual is designed to aid the user in measuring consumer satisfaction with vocational rehabilitation services. The manual contains materials which were used by the West Virginia Research and Training Center in a followup study. Step-by-step guidelines are provided for assessing the effectiveness of vocational rehabilitation services by…

This paper derives its foundation from recent concepts of accountability in education. Accountability presupposes a determination of the goals (i.e. the mission) of the educational component and what constitutes the achievement of those goals (i.e. evaluation). The basic design for the evaluation program described here is the self-study approach…

This three-part report provides an analysis of the California Bay Area Learning Center (BALC). Part 1 provides (a) a network design to illustrate the major project components and their interrelationships, (b) a series of component descriptions listing the primary resources and project activities, and (c) a list of project objectives. Part 2…

In order to better measure outputs in the student personnel services, an attempt was made through an all day off-campus student affairs retreat to develop a model which would identify the desired outcome, indicate the accountable area, specify the method of accomplishing the outcome, and list the techniques for measuring the accomplishments in…

The Nebraska Opportunities for Volunteers in ACTION (NOVA) was an experiment at the University of Nebraska aimed at welding traditional academic instruction and year-long community service experience into an educational alternative for undergraduates. It was initiated on July 1, 1971 as the first University Year for ACTION (UYA) program in the…

This report presents the design and results of two evaluation studies of Relevant Explorations in Active Learning (REAL), an instructional resource developed in the Improving Teaching Competencies Program of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. The first study was a users' review of REAL materials and the second, a report of the tryout…

This document contains resumes of more than 100 programs and projects of the National Laboratory on Early Childhood Education during 1968-1969. The information given for each program or project includes the title, principal staff, objectives, justification, design, characteristics of users, expected end products, evaluation procedures,…

The annual report of the State Advisory Council for Vocational Education and Manpower Development and Training addresses the major areas, as perceived by the committee, to be most in need of attention in order to improve the quality of vocational education in Kentucky. These areas are: improved communication with the general public, greater use of…

Systematic guidelines for evaluating programs in adult basic education are presented in the document. Program activities in adult basic education involve four main levels of activity (classroom, local, State, and Federal), each of which can profit from appropriately focused evaluation. Patterns of association among personnel and activities are…

The overall purpose of this evaluative project was to improve the administrative and programmatic aspects of public adult and continuing education programs in Illinois--particularly those funded under public law 91-230 (The Adult Education Act). A second major purpose was to provide a model for future evaluative efforts. Twenty local programs were…

The document examines the need to develop and implement more adequate evaluation methods for broad-aimed adult education programs, and presents some suggestions. Broad-aimed adult education programs are described as those which seek to affect the quality of the learners' lives through education and to help learners cope more effectively with their…

The 1976 annual report of the National Advisory Council on Adult Education (NACAE) summarizes council activities and recommendations on problems in the following areas: (1) parent/early childhood education, (2) program/administrative review, (3) adult education clearinghouse, and (4) State advisory councils. Recommendations for the reorganization…