A proper system is needed for gathering, processing, and evaluating information to be used as accountability measures. (RA)

The results of one year's viewing of a child-oriented television show are discussed. (CK)

This article gives opinions and information from 318 public school adult education graduates on such matters as sources of information, reasons for getting a diploma, course offerings, program effectiveness, and needed improvements. Three tables. (LY)

Examines evaluation in continuing education in the health professions as defined as impact on health care provider competence and performance or patient health status. Includes a literature review, case studies, and evaluation instruments. (JOW)

An examination of recent trends in program evaluation suggests that such developments seem to arise from an expanding view of the role of program evaluation in educational improvement. The paper traces the impetus behind the evolving methodologies of program evaluation and examines the perspectives of evaluation under which they operate.

Illustrates how program evaluation can be used to increase the impact of continuing education on performance. (JOW)

Studies designed to assess the efficacy of interventions with organically impaired infants in terms of how well the experimental designs used controlled for threats to interval validity were analyzed. The use of methodologically more rigorous designs in evaluation studies is recommended to prevent or ameliorate the adverse effects of…

The evaluation process of gifted programs in the Los Angeles Unified School District has evolved from a city-wide effort to measure cognitive and affective achievement through standardized tests to a more decentralized approach in which individual schools determine evaluation methods. Plans call for computerized data analysis. (CL)