Offers a case study that examines the methodological problems of evaluating a community relations program in Northern Ireland. Recommends a quantitative and qualitative approach to evaluation and raises issues that must be addressed when evaluating community development programs. (Author/JOW)

Presents a framework for planning, designing, conducting, and implementing training program evaluations. Identifies pitfalls, evaluation criteria, resources, and constraints. (SK)

Reviews the relationship between occupational therapy and client involvement, examines the rationale for involving clients in program evaluation and research, and discusses how clients are involved in evaluation and research in today's mental health care setting. (Author)

Applies the following outcomes assessment principles to Alverno College's nursing program: begin with educational values; view learning as multidimensional, integrated, and revealed over time; have explicit purposes; include experiences leading to outcomes; make assessment ongoing; include wide representation; and make assessment part of larger…

A better way to assess the effectiveness of management development is to measure organizational effectiveness rather than individual improvement. Case studies support the Business Excellence Framework model, which assesses enablers (leadership, personnel management, policy, resources, processes) and results (personnel and customer satisfaction,…

Uses data from an evaluation of an alternative teacher certification program to illustrate the value and use of multilevel models to examine site-to-site outcome differences data from multisite evaluations, showing how a traditional analysis approach can overlook effective interventions and miss important links between program implementation and…

Identifies key factors that should be considered by those engaged in the evaluation of overseas development projects to ensure that the evaluation process leads to the empowerment of local stakeholders. A literature review resulted in the development of seven guidelines for evaluation of overseas development projects. (SLD)

Reviews the results of the effectiveness of counseling services provided by the Juvenile Counseling and Assessment Program of the Juvenile Court of Clarke County, Georgia. Individual and group counseling services were provided for 55 adjudicated delinquent youths for four to six months. The recidivism rates of the youths who had received…

Conducting good assessment studies and how to use results may determine the future of student affairs. Includes facts to help guide programs; determine why a study is needed; know that all assessment is political and takes time and money away from direct services to students; how results of assessment is communicated is as critical as the…

Survey responses from 62 of 96 cattle producers evaluated educational methods of the extension service and the livestock market. Methods included tips distributed with the sale check, monthly and sale day programs, and Second Saturday cattle working program. The combination of programs offered influenced them to make changes in their production…

Finds that the term "environmental education" is finding decreasing support in the international community. Reviews reasons why environmental education's position is in peril. Offers a status report on the current criticisms and weaknesses of environmental education. (Author/CCM)

Describes the integration of programmatic theory and structural equation modeling to serve as the basic intellectual machinery for designing and evaluating behavioral interventions. Illustrates this integration with the example of a program to reduce sexual risk taking. (SLD)

Discusses the application of objective evaluation criteria to training programs. Suggests evaluating a presentation by asking: What is the speaker's goal? Does the delivery achieve it? What information is superfluous? What information undermines the goal? and What tactics are being used to engage listeners? (JOW)

Uses the results of an instrumental case study to identify issues connected to evaluation participation and its representation and the role of the internal evaluator in democratic, deliberative evaluation. Identified direct participation and participation by representation, sanctioned or unsanctioned representation, and extrinsic and intrinsic…

Uses a case study of an evaluation conducted in a psychiatric institution to illustrate the issues that arise when techniques of deliberative democratic evaluation are applied in an antidemocratic climate. Illuminates strategies for stakeholder inclusion from a deliberative, democratic point of view. (SLD)