This document suggests a number of ways of thinking about quality control in those undergraduate programs that depart from commonly accepted forms and objectives. Institutionalization and evolution of these new departures are required if our currently accepted model of mass undergraduate education is to be transformed into a more effective…

A survey of staff and student attitudes toward selected innovative approaches to learning that had been in operation for four years was conducted. The population surveyed comprised the entire Bettendorf, Iowa, Middle School staff and student body. Questionnaires were developed to elicit pertinent staff and student opinions toward (a) space…

This document describes a project designed to evaluate the training of subject matter teachers in Sweden. The purpose of the project is to acquire information about the training system and to use this knowledge as a base for reform of teacher preparation. The project began in 1970 and is expected to continue through 1975. The first year was…

This report summarizes and compares results of three conference seminars on Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) held in 1967, 1968, and 1969 for administrators and teachers. Basic seminar objectives were to give participants an opportunity to exchange ideas about IPI, to provide them with information concerning future developments of IPI,…

In order to assess the classroom behavior of PLAN students relative to students in other instructional systems, the PLAN Student Observation Scale (PLAN-SOS) was developed. Specifically, PLAN-SOS was designed to measure the percentages of time that students spend performing various behaviors judged to be important to the learning process in a…

Problems raised and solutions proposed at a conference on improvement of education for handicapped children are extensively listed under the following categories: preparation of personnel, developing leadership and coordination of programs, research, information dissemination, scope of special education, labeling, rural area services, terminal…

This annual report covering the period June, 1969 to June, 1970, is an evaluation of Project Outdoors, a Title III ESEA funded environmental education center in southeastern Connecticut. Evaluation embraces the major thrusts of the project, that is, developmental work with teachers at the Natural Science Center and local school sites via…

The report is concerned with the activities of a 3 year pilot project of an educational evaluation and programing unit for children with auditory disorders. The educational evaluation process, the programs and problems of implementation, dissemination, other project activities and an evaluation of the project are discussed. Appendixes cover such…

The impact of programed instruction on the educational system has been minimal quantitatively and qualitatively. In the interface between education and programing there are serious weaknesses in the design of materials, severe problems in the economics of design and use, and an almost insurmountable gulf between the philosophy or point of view on…

This report describes the evaluation phase of a 2-week seminar held at the University of Kentucky on June 12-23, 1967, and designed for supervisors and teacher educators of teachers of persons with special needs. The general objective of the seminar was to orient persons in leadership positions in vocational education to the characteristics,…

This booklet is a guide to research done on More Effective Schools (MES) through April, 1969. The Bureau of Educational Research of the New York City Board of Education found that the mean gain in reading comprehension of MES students over non-MES students ranged from 2.5 to 4.5 school months relating to the period studied. The booklet summarizes…

The authors present a framework depicting an evaluation-decision sequence, describe each of the evaluation stages, and note the relationships between evaluation information and subsequent decisions. In Chart I, the four major decision areas and the five kinds of evaluation which provide information for decisions in each of these areas are…

Analyzed are the results from a follow-up of two groups of college students: (1) a sample of 400 students who started 9th grade in 1958 and graduate from high school in 1962, and (2) a sample of 728 students who were in high school from 1959 to 1963. Both samples were limited to those students who had continued on to college. The purposes of this…

A major activity of any ESEA Title III project is evaluation. This paper suggests evaluation methods especially appropriate to such projects by applying a systems approach to the evaluation design. Evaluation as a system is divided into three subsystems: (1) baseline evaluation, which describes conditions as they exist before project treatment;…

This study reports an attempt to measure differences in learners caused by audio tape and lecture procedures in a social science course. The sample consisted of only two classes, both taught by the same teacher. Three measures were used in evaluation of the two procedures: (1) scores on the Allport-Vernon-Lindsey Study of Values; (2) scores on the…