This article describes two formulae designed to measure the effect of job preparedness programs at six North Carolina community colleges. Increased taxes due to increased earnings "pay back" the program costs in less than two years. And trainees, through increased wages, "earn back" training costs in approximately five months. (NHM)

Occupational program goals were collected from 42 Virginia community colleges, grouped into six major areas (manpower development, skills attainment, opportunity awareness, citizenship, personal enrichment, and individual needs), and matched with criteria that could help in program evaluation, including: salary levels, job titles, employer…

This article attempts to clarify issues concerning, and provide the background needed to understand, the roots and assumptions of the movement towards accountability as well as the movement to technologize curriculum planning and teaching. (RC)

A survey was conducted by a mental health center to evaluate the effects of a nursing home education project which attempted 1) to teach mental health professionals and nursing home staff how to set up in-service education programs in nursing homes, and 2) to teach nursing home staff mental health principles. (Author/EJT)

Article focused on the process of getting into curriculum change, using the RISE report as a tool. Author suggested a RISE Report Study Committee (RRSC), composed of interested educational staff members, community leaders, and students, who would spearhead an assessment of the counseling and learning options for all students. (Author/RK)

Evaluation is critical to demonstrating program value and impact and to better communicating outcomes to stakeholders. Purdue Extension Health and Human Sciences (HHS Extension) created an evaluation tool based on the need to collect statewide metrics on a standardized set of questions addressing the topics of food, family, money, and health. This…

Article presented a long-range account of work which was done to stimulate self-directed change in the educational system operated by the Immaculate Heart Community, in Los Angeles and other towns. (Author/RK)

This article describes a comprehensive system analysis in which students evaluated their educational experience on such dimensions as faculty-student communications and decision making, psychological closeness, freedom to express deviant views, sexual and racial bias, and the degree to which the program climate encouraged them to be active rather…

The article is intended to inform readers of the contents of the General Accounting Office report on the failure of vocational education in seven States and to present responses from Washington-based vocational education personnel. Included are the congressional committee review findings and recommendations based on the audit. (BP)

Article considered the thesis, put forth by Howard Conant, that it was time to bring artists into art education as teachers, thus replacing art teachers. Author responded by categorically denying Conant's basic assumptions. (Author/RK)

Article concerned an informal evaluation made to determine whether activities and programs fit the goals of a school. (Editor/RK)

Article described a program that successfully allowed for students' individual differences while stimulating them to learn mathematics. (RK)

This article discusses methods and benefits of soliciting parental advice with regard to the development of teacher education programs. (HMD)

The purpose of this survey was to gather the opinions of a group of randomly selected members of the National Art Education Association (NAEA) regarding the quality of graduate programs in art education. (Author)