The Johnson-O'Malley Act (JOM), passed by Congress in 1934, authorized the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to contract with the states and other political entities for educational services to American Indians. Although the rationale for the JOM program was not understood well by a high proportion of the Indian patrons of public schools or by the school administrators, the nature of JOM funding and recent developments made the evaluation of these programs an inevitable requirement. In April, 1972, the Muskogee Area Office of the BIA sent the Indian Education Section of the Oklahoma State Department of Education a 1 page set of suggestions for evaluating and monitoring JOM projects. This document was shown in its entirety. About a month later the BIA office in Albuquerque, which handles the JOM program, forwarded to the Muskogee Area Office a similar and comprehensive questionnaire which was then forwarded to the Oklahoma State Department of Education. The returns showed an almost total lack of standardized evaluation test data. Recommendations from the schools stressed the need for inservice training of personnel and changes in the program. (FF)