Preliminary evaluation of a year's operation indicates the Appalachian Education Satellite Project is providing education courses to teachers at a reasonable cost and is proving that such an operation is feasible. (JC)

Describes an evaluation of Iowa's statewide teletype reference service operated primarily by library school students. (PF)

Evaluated the effectiveness of an academic workshop in achieving its explicit and implicit goals. The program, attended by 292 high school students, consisted of workshop and class samplings from the U.S. Military Academy's curriculum. The explicit goal of increasing attendees' understanding of college-level academic offerings was accomplished.…

Evaluation is often both conceptually and functionally separate from program planning and operations management. There are a number of potentially beneficial side effects to be realized from close collaboration between program administrators and evaluators: when the evaluation task is broadly defined and when both administrators recognize their…

The retranslation method, usually used in job performance rating, was used to develop a scale for evaluating an educational television series. The method itself was evaluated using both developmental and actual field use data. Results were mixed. (Author/SJL)

New York City's Economic Development Council, a nonprofit organization providing management skills to improve city government, hires retired business executives as consultants to city agencies. The article discusses retiree value on return to management positions and gives retirees' opinions. (MF)

The Symphonie Experiment Study Group reports on the experimental use of the Symphonie Satellite to link UNESCO headquarters in Paris with the Conference Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, during the nineteenth session of the General Conference. Evaluations are reported for the use of the satellite for telephone, telex, and facsimile communications. (JMF)

Looks at past evaluation of compensatory education, suggests new approaches to evaluation, and makes recommendations about program implementation. (IRT)

This discussion has outlined the role played by program costs in the three-stage policy process--policy formulation, policy implementation, and policy evaluation. It has described both the relevance and a framework for education policy evaluation. (Author/IRT)

There is general agreement that human services (i.e., services that depend on direct interpersonal contact between a deliverer and a client) are difficult to evaluate. The author points out some sources of this difficulty and proposes a strategy for the evaluation of human services delivery. (Author/GDC)

A discussion of school psychology practice is presented, with emphasis on school programs rather than on individuals. The learning process as it occurs in school programing is discussed, illustrating potential sources of involvement for school psychologists in effecting change in education. School psychologists should be well suited to be…

This paper explores some of the issues concerning the acceptance or rejection of positive program evaluation data by the system in which the program is embedded. System acceptance and diffusion rates are considered as functions of first- or second-order change factors. Several approaches are presented and discussed. (Author)

Discussed is goal attainment scaling, an individualized, goal-based measure for systematic program evaluation in agencies working with visually handicapped persons with other disabilities. (BD)

The food director of the Milwaukee Public Schools offers his advice: discover what kids want, and then give it to them; snack bars and vendors must not compete with school lunches; and you must have professionals running the food service. (Author/MLF)

Reviews developmental education programs stressing the need for institutional research to determine the viable parts of such curricula in view of cutbacks being made of costly programs. Discusses factors causing insufficient skills in students, considers program evaluation, and reviews six established developmental programs. (MB)