The evaluation plan for New York State's Children and Youth Intensive Case Management (CYICM) Program is described, which was introduced in July 1988. The CYICM Program is a statewide intervention focusing on keeping children with serious emotional disturbances in the least restrictive environment appropriate to their needs. It is a…

Ninety-three clients were interviewed for their reactions to a community mental health outreach program. The results indicate that for the majority this typical program met their perceived needs. (Author)

Many developmental educators have been assigned increased responsibilities for campus-wide enrollment management activities. A new system is needed for educators to more accurately sort through the rapidly growing database of information related to student retention. This will enable the reader to more quickly identify promising practices for…

This report describes an extensive field test of the Bilingual Education Evaluation System (BEES) used to evaluate local level bilingual education projects. Because such projects will usually not be able to implement a traditional true or quasi-experimental design, BEES employs a "gap-reduction" evaluation design that is easily…

Evaluation of the 1-year program for approximately 25 seriously emotionally disturbed older adolescents involved a review of the program design (objectives and organization), the planning process, interviews with staff, and analysis of data about student progress. Interviews were conducted with 11 staff members to elicit information on such topics…

The Vermont Vocational Special Needs Evaluation System is a statewide system for evaluating special projects for disadvantaged and handicapped students enrolled in secondary level vocational education programs. A program used for training individuals to serve as external evaluators for the system is presented. This document consists of four…

The field of social innovation policy can presently be seen as divided into two opposing camps: pro-fidelity and pro-adaptation. The former conceptualizes innovations as consisting of a number of relatively well specified components, and argue that rigorously developed, evaluated programs should be implemented with close correspondence to…

A handbook for participants of a workshop on the process of describing and documenting the implementation of bilingual programs is presented. The workshop is part of the Bilingual Technical Assistance project. Workshop objectives are to: generate implementation questions appropriate for a given bilingual program; apply a strategy for describing…

The development of A Simulation in Educational Evaluation (SIMEDEVAL), a simulation designed to increase the evaluation capability of school personnel is described. The Discrepancy Evaluation Model served as the simulation model and the framework for field test procedure. Instruments were constructed and validated for use in the field test with…

The work of eight learning theorists was used to evaluate a proposed adult education/learning experience in an effort to operationalize a system for locating strengths and weaknesses in an instructional system prior to its implementation. Thirty-five implications for adult education were extrapolated from work representing the Behaviorist (B.F.…

Eleven selected language programs made available between 1967 and 1975 are described. The introduction explores the theoretical perspectives at work during the past 15 years and discusses the factors which should influence language program choice, how children acquire language skills, and techniques for evaluating the success of language…

An analysis and review of the activities in the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory Regional Exchange (SEDL/RX) is presented, and the following questions spoken to: 1) How has the SEDL/RX evolved and developed? 2) What are the major activities at the SEDL/RX? 3) How do the Advisory Board members perceive the SEDL/RX and what do they see…

The purpose of this dissertation was to evaluate a bilingual program using a method of longitudinal evaluation. A class of students who received instruction in grades K-2 in the Region I Bilingual Reading Project in Texas comprised the experimental group. The control group was composed of 27 older siblings of the experimental group. The control…

Self-study is described as a process wherein local school district guidance staffs, with the aid of consultants if needed, determine the objectives for guidance services within a local setting and establish methods by which those objectives can be met most effectively. Program objectives and related activities are formulated only after sufficient…

The Regional Seminar on Educational Evaluation held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, from 7 April to 2 May 1975, was organized as a follow-up activity to a study carried out by the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP, Paris) in 1973-1974. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development had in 1973 requested the IIEP to…