After noting the lack of attention paid to the evaluation of staff development programs in practice and in the literature, this monograph presents a conceptual framework for planning program evaluations. The monograph first discusses the purposes of staff development evaluation and then considers three prerequisites for the development of an…

A detailed case study of the Curricular-Career Information Service (CCIS) at Florida State University is presented. The information collected is expected to promote improvements in services offered by CCIS; provide guidelines for other professionals contemplating the development of similar career centers; and provide basic "hard" data…

In order to determine how much objective evidence exists regarding the effectiveness of career education programs in U.S. schools, American Institutes for Research in Behavioral Sciences (AIR) conducted a comprehensive, national search for well-evaluated activities. The initial nominations of 394 programs were received from state career education…

An ethnographic paradigm was used to collect the needed information on effective Right to Read program planning and staff training in several New York school districts. The paradigm encompassed six steps: determining program goals and objectives, completing needs assessment, determining planning strategies, writing and accepting the plan,…

As our society moves increasingly from an era of affluence to one of scarcity, the evaluation and assessment of publicly supported services will become even more crucial and necessary to ensure that public resources are being expended in the most effective manner. Evaluation of library service effectiveness is defined in this paper in terms of…

The author discusses the tendency of reformers of juvenile justice to equate change with effectiveness, and warns against repeating this error. He believes that collaboration between program and research personnel is essential in these programs. A juvenile justice model which integrates research and evaluation, clarifying the functions of each and…

This report describes a study of 23 community-based child advocacy projects, located in 14 states and 20 cities, and outlines a strategy for evaluating such projects. Data on each project's history, development, and current activities were obtained. Data were analyzed to (1) determine how such projects are started and become operational, (2)…

Third party evaluation of Project ACT (Adult Competency Training), a United States Office of Education staff development project in Region 8, has examined the achievement of the project's goal of developing a self-generating and self-supporting adult staff development system, thus helping adult educators to become better prepared to serve their…

This chapter presents a number of problems related to designing local-level summative evaluation studies and suggests solutions to these problems. Three general areas are covered. First, many of the motivational, organizational, and attitudinal constraints likely to face the local-level evaluator are discussed. Second, various threats to the…

This assessment scale developed by the Georgia State Department of Education is intended for use in examining the reading program in a particular school and has some suggestions as to how the school might document particular aspects of the program. Some of the suggested techniques for documentation include: describing the composition of a task…

This report contains a summary and analysis of the evaluation component of Project Follow Through Programs by the 1970-71 Follow Through sponsors. Part 1 (the major part of the document) is a sponsor-by-sponsor summary analysis of the 19 Follow Through Model Programs. Each summary analysis is divided into five parts: nature of the program, process…

A study was undertaken of organization development (OD) programs, from the point of view of the organization members who plan and conduct them, to gain information for meaningful planning by the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). A questionnaire was returned by 103 of 450 randomly selected OD practitioners. Most respondents had…

Education is too complex, multidimensional, and poorly understood to lend itself to a single cost/effectiveness criterion. Rather, analysts in the educational field seek to rank alternatives by their effectiveness, report separately on the cost implications, and leave the tradeoffs to the decisionmaker's judgment. In this context, a program is any…

An independent statewide study of 4,735 elementary schools, conducted after three years of the Early Childhood Education Program (ECE) in California, indicates that ECE schools have lower reading scores in grades 2 and 3 when compared to non-ECE schools. Five potential causes for this discrepancy are discussed. (CP)

This paper presented at the 1976 National Conference on Continuing Education in Nursing describes evaluation methodology used to determine the effectiveness of different continuing education offerings in nursing. The evaluation design, workshops for inservice directors, findings and problems, and examples of three evaluation forms used are…