Examined effects of a course for families in democratic conflict resolution and moral reasoning of adolescent participants. Parents significantly increased equalitarian attitudes toward family decision making. Families significantly improved effectiveness in collective decision making, with parent-adolescent groups showing greater improvement than…

Provides an overview of the status of research-based evaluation of school media services. (Author)

Families who continued in conjoint family therapy were compared on a variety of antecedent variables to families who drop out. Maximal discrimination between continuing and dropout families was demonstrated by simultaneous consideration of several significant variables. (Author)

Describes the development and assessment of an audiotaped women's consciousness-raising program. Results point toward the effectiveness of this audiotaped program and the importance of including communication skills training in consciousness-raising programs. (Author)

Institutions face financial uncertainty due to unpredictable enrollments. Research identifies how student personnel services and programs might change as a result of enrollment and budget reductions. Data show a lack of consensus concerning specific areas to be eliminated. Campuses will vary according to their specific factors and conditions.…

Test report on usefulness of model that utilized collaboration between a school and community in formulation of language policy and selection of bilingual education program. Model assessed sociolinguistic parameters of the community, identified maintenance or transfer status of Spanish, and evaluated degree of ethnic homogeneity between parents…

Eisner's educational criticism model produces a richer description of an English classroom than does Flanders' interaction analysis. (Author)

A conceptual perspective and set of principles are offered for the evaluation of special service programs in public school settings. Special service program evaluation is seen as a process of obtaining and reporting information on a program's adequacy, process, efficiency, and impact. (Author)

Provides an overview of a training program for online searching used by the University of California's Computerized Information Services (CIS), focusing on database training through workshops and seminars. (FM)

Describes a successful meaning-centered writing program and the evaluation program used to judge its effectiveness. (IRT)

TICCIT has been a prominent feature of the instructional environment of the Alexandria Campus of Northern Virginia Community College since 1974, and its presence has pervaded all the operations of the campus, both instructional and administrative. Positive and negative impacts have been recorded by two evaluations. (Author)

Differences among impartiality, objectivity, partisanship, fanaticism, and skepticism are viewed as relevant to the role of the evaluator. The desirability of establishing a community of minds committed to argumentation before beginning an evaluation is suggested. (Author/CTM)

Presents a check list created by teachers to be used as an evaluation instrument in observations of reading laboratories in the New York City area. Reflects their ideas about the essential components of a remedial reading program. (FL)

Focused on one reason for insufficient evaluation--lack of goals and objectives--by identifying goals and specific outcome variables and their measures. American School Counselor Association guidelines served as a starting point for goals, and guidance journal articles from the past 15 years were sources for variables and measures. (Author)

The aim of the federally funded National Demonstration Program in Child Abuse and Neglect was to develop and test alternative treatment strategies. This article reports on an evaluation of treatment services in the 11 projects in the program. Implications are presented. (Author)