This document, created by the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE), provides guidance for newly opening charter schools. This guide can be used to keep track of MDE deadlines, access the reporting calendar and follow the steps necessary to ensure the utilization of all the resources and revenue available from the state. This guidance document…

The primary source of federal aid to elementary and secondary education is the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)--particularly its Title I-A program, which authorizes federal aid for the education of disadvantaged students. This report provides a brief overview of major provisions of the ESEA. It is organized by title and part of the…

Project ROME-FOCUS (results-oriented management in education--field-oriented, competency utilization system) is a field-oriented, competency-based instructional program for school administrators pursuing the sixth-year degree at Valdosta State College. It represents an effort to develop and execute a training program that focuses on a group of 80…

Project PRIMES (Progress Research in Meeting Elementary Standards) is a Title III ESEA funded project charged with assisting Columbus (Ohio) public and parochial elementary schools in an on-sight evaluation of science programs. The population included nine schools in Columbus. Input was received from 9 principals, over 90 teachers and 140 parents.…

The meaning of evaluation and the steps necessary to implement it are explained to parents in this booklet. The purposes and methods of evaluating student progress, teacher capability, programs, and school and community goals are related to improvement of the educational experience as a whole. Decision making is always a result of the data…

This booklet contains an evaluation of the Urban Environmental Education Project instituted in the District of Columbia Public Schools. Data were obtained from interviews and questionnaires given to project staff, teachers, and students. Seven objectives were evaluated to rate the program: (1) assisting teachers in developing programs and…

This publication reports the results of an evaluation program to determine the effect of an interdisciplinary, K-12 environmental curriculum. The objectives of the evaluation program were twofold. First, to develop and validate evaluative instruments which would measure the impact of the environmental curriculum materials on students. Both…

This interim report evaluates the achievement of seven objectives in the Francis R. Howell School District Innovative Program. The objectives of the program were teacher improvement in the areas of: (a) effective questioning, (b) the writing of behavioral objectives, (c) diagnosis and evaluation, (d) individualized instruction, (e) science…

This final evaluation report of two ESEA Title III projects conducted by the Training Center for Open-Space Schools, District of Columbia, contains detailed descriptions of the projects' evaluation design, evaluation methods, results, conclusions, and recommendations. Continued on-site training, freedom of choice for teachers, and human relations…

The Guidance and Counseling Task Force of the California State Department of Education was charged with the task of studying the pupil personnel services available to students in California schools and of developing a plan for improving and extending those services where needed. This document is the result of more than a year of study and direct…

This guide, designed for teacher use, focuses on the evaluation of environmental education experiences. The guide, which is based on a doctoral study, is structured around three basic evaluation questions: (1) What kinds of environmental education learning experiences can you evaluate?; (2) What outcomes of environmental education learning…

This supplementary report presents the final evaluation conducted to determine the effectiveness of 34 environmental curriculum units for grades K-6 that were developed by the Center for the Development of Environmental Curriculum. A preliminary evaluation consisting of in-class use and review was conducted in 1973. The final evaluation based on…

This project termination report deals with an environmental education curriculum developed by the Center for the Development of Environmental Curriculum and Willoughby-Eastlake City School District (Ohio). During the three years of the project, 34 units for elementary teachers and 34 units for secondary teachers were prepared. All curriculum…

The New Jersey Department of Education conducted a national search for existing materials and procedures related to one or more of the following categories: goal-setting procedures, objectives and existing banks of objectives, assessment procedures, guidelines for program selection, and evaluation of program effectiveness and efficiency. This…

This document provides information about the development of a quality control procedure that adds a new capability to program management. The procedure, the Standardized Educational Program Audit (SEPA), is being developed by the Florida Department of Education for use with Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III development projects. This…