This paper assumes five basic functions for the community college guidance and counseling program: (1) applicant consulting (interpreting test results, introducing career planning, aiding the student in course selection, and explaining curricular requirements); (2) student advisement (scheduling students, explaining Senior College requirements and…

Because of changes in the economy, in technology, and in attitudes of employers and employees, career development and career guidance are receiving increased attention. Measurement of outcomes is increasingly necessary to determine the career development progress of all students and workers, especially women, minorities, and recent immigrants. It…

This paper was designed to provide background information for participants of the "Statewide Evaluation of Programs and Services with Students with Disabilities" Policy Forum scheduled for August 30 and 31, 1994. The paper provides information regarding program evaluation issues, to stimulate discussion and to give examples of resources available…

This report synthesizes the evaluation results of forty-five federally funded K-12 career education programs. Although, according to the author, diversity in individual program goals and evaluation procedures made the synthesis difficult and inconclusive, the tabulated evaluations are used to provide a status report on career education's progress…

Focused on one reason for insufficient evaluation--lack of goals and objectives--by identifying goals and specific outcome variables and their measures. American School Counselor Association guidelines served as a starting point for goals, and guidance journal articles from the past 15 years were sources for variables and measures. (Author)

This volume contains abstracts of the evaluation reports of projects funded under Title I ESEA during the 1975-76 school year. It is intended to provide the reader with a brief but comprehensive overview of the degree to which project goals were attained. Each abstract contains current management information, as well as information on observed…

Evidence from evaluation studies of open classroom effects on children is not sufficiently consistent to warrant unqualified endorsement of that approach over more traditional methods. However, there is enough evidence to support the open classroom as a viable alternative when teachers and parents are interested in such a program. (RD)

As part of a project designed to identify appropriate and feasible methods of evaluating vocational education with respect to its outcomes, this bibliography contains descriptive and evaluative annotations of a selection of empirical studies of vocational education outcomes. Following a technical introduction discussing the methodological issues…

This document presents effectiveness charts that demonstrate the impact of various programs of the Austin (Texas) Independent School District (AISD) on strategic objectives of the district and executive summaries of all reports produced by the AISD's Office of Research and Evaluation in 1990-91. The programs described in the effectiveness charts…

Current challenges to the more traditional orientations of higher education are apparent in the debate between educators who seek to broaden the student's perspective and develop scholarship and students who seek to find the relevance of their course material to their current perspective. This debate is similar to problems encountered within…

This state of the art review on career education focuses on describing the different career education purposes and programs that have emerged in the last few years of growth, examining the published reactions to these by educators and laymen, and proposing, for the consideration of the staff of the School Based Career Education Program of the…

A central source for a diverse and scattered body of practice and knowledge is provided in this annotated resource book for management educators and management development students and practitioners. Articles, books, monographs, and chapters have been briefly summarized into the following chapters: Management Education: Objectives and Background;…

This summary describes 162 research projects dealing with extension education that were conducted between 1980 and 1983. The abstracts are organized into nine broad categories: administration, agriculture, accountability and evaluation, community resource development, 4-H and youth, home economics, international education, personnel and staff…

This volume consists of resumes of vocational and technical education curriculum products that were selected by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education (ERIC/ACVE) for inclusion in the July 1981 through June 1982 issues of "Resources in Education." Among the major types of documents abstracted are curriculum…