Provides an evaluation model and outlines steps to take in planning for the evaluation process. Such planning and organizing ensures that the evaluation process is achieved systematically. (IRT)

To help you become the best possible cooperating teacher, a director of elementary student teaching, has compiled some basic fundamentals for your use. Mix and match her suggestions with your own ideas, and you and your student teacher will have a rewarding and successful experience. (Editor)

Experienced in the process of student evaluation of teachers, this author suggests ways of using student assessment to best advantage. (Editor)

This handbook of guidelines is intended to explain the sum and substance of the evaluation process and to guide a planning committee in designing an evaluation program. The evaluation process discussed is termed "evaluation by objectives." The guidelines for implementing evaluation by objectives have five steps: diagnosing current…

Reviews the literature on colleague evaluation of classroom teaching, discusses issues instructional developers need to be aware of when consulting with faculty on colleague visitation program design, and suggests practical guidelines for instituting such programs. (11 references) (MBR)

One of seven guides developed to assist vocational-technical institutions in conducting a systemized approach to local evaluation, this institutional, program, and staff development guide provides a suggested method to organize and implement improvement activities designed to fulfill those institutional, individual, and program needs identified…

This guide provides information for use in achieving sex equity in industrial arts programs. Listed first are a series of standards pertaining to sex equity in industrial arts programs. Following a discussion of the impact of social change on education, the concept of sex equity is examined. Defined next are the major terms used in the guide. The…

This handbook on locally directed evaluation (LDE) is designed as a practical guide for vocational and other school administrators to use in initiating or improving evaluation activities carried out at the local level. It is divided into seven sections. Each section includes an evaluation instrument, the purpose of the evaluation activity, and…

A three-year project was undertaken by the National Center for research in Vocational Education (Ohio State University, OH) to investigate time on task in vocational and technical classes. During the first year of the project, researchers used the direct observation method to collect time-on-task data pertaining to 10 teachers and 186 students in…