The Psychological Center provided a family oriented mental health consultation service to 17 delegate agencies who had contracts with Head Start programs in 1966-67. This paper presents an overview of the services which an interdisciplinary staff of 52 professionals provided to 6,780 families and 1,500 agency staff members. Gerald Caplan's (1964)…

Over 47 percent of the Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) projects have been in the field of business. This report reviews progress in developing these training programs in California over the past two years and identifies characteristics of some of the procedures involved in organizing, supervising, and evaluating such training. By June…

Evaluation is discusses as a primary element in the change process. Defined as a procedure for obtaining data to make decisions, evaluation is regarded as a recurring determination of the extent to which objectives have been reached, within a four-stage sequence of research, development, diffusion, and adoption. A conceptual scheme for viewing the…

This project seeks to answer the questions which arise about the impact of counseling services as measured by a questionnaire administered to the teaching faculty and administrative staff about their understanding of its purposes, services, and effect on student behavior. An on-going program will be implemented to provide teaching faculty and…

A program of 9-month postdoctoral institutional research internships was sponsored by the Institutional Research Council of Eleven (IRCE)--the Big Ten and the University of Chicago. It was established to provide on-the-job experience in well-established institutional research units in selected IRCE institutions. Five carefully screened trainees…

A 5-week intensive training institute was conducted for 13 public school administrators who have research responsibilities under Title I and Title III projects. The program focused on research methodology and design, statistical procedures, evaluation of research, and proposal writing. The general format was a lecture or presentation period…

The seminar's major purpose was to prepare 17 participants to provide leadership in facility planning for vocational programs in New York State. It was held in the summer of 1966 and focused on an individual planning problem of each participant. Some of the seminar topics were (1) criteria for plan evaluation, (2) the relation of an educational…

The 1967 project for staff desegregation through interracial team teaching, conducted in 16 schools in Chattanooga, Tenn., used three methods of inservice training: workshops for teachers and principals before the opening of school, planning and evaluation sessions during the school year, and on-the-job training in daily sessions with resource…

Under the assumption that evaluation must involve the teacher in an introspective process so as to develop the habit of continuous improvement, guidelines which give direction to industrial arts program evaluation were developed. These are intended for use by industrial arts teachers and by preservice teacher education students. Major chapters…

Based upon a systems analysis approach, a four-stage evaluation model called CIPP (context, input, process, product) assesses innovative programs in education. The model is both a way of viewing planned educational change and a decision making tool for the administrator within the local education agency. Development of the model includes a method…

The problems of changing a school system require a systematic approach that coordinates various efforts within the system. A model, developed by Professor Goodson and his staff, deals with the design of a change-agent team and the work that such a team might perform. The model requires four functions to be performed: Diagnosing problems, planning…

Reported is a needs assessment study designed to determine priority needs for a college Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering for setting objectives and long range planning. Opinions were obtained from students, graduates, faculty, and employers. Each of the groups showed agreement on three priority items: (1) practical managerial…

External political pressures which influence the role and methodology of evaluation are described in the lead article by Henry M. Brickell. These influences, according to the author, are constantly present and are often more powerful in their effect than the actual evaluation findings. Based upon his experiences as an evaluator of educational…

The minutes of the meeting of the Special Committee on Aging of the U.S. Senate on the issue of legal services programs for the elderly, specifically programs in effect in the Boston area include statements made by the following: (1) an elderly diabetic woman testifying about living conditions and lack of services in her housing project; (2) the…

The purpose of this paper is to describe the Navy's Alcohol Rehabilitation Program and to discuss the research that has been completed through 1976 measuring the effectiveness of the program. The researchers defined program effectiveness as completion of enlistment and recommendation for reenlistment one year after treatment. The results indicated…