Identifies information about evaluated outcomes of local school career education activities representing the best of current career education programs and practices. Seven activities were ultimately approved by the HEW Education Division's Joint Dissemination Review Panel for nationwide distribution. (Author)

Designed as a technical resource, this paper provides information related to adoption of National Diffusion Network (NDN) programs in urban districts with populations in excess of 300,000. Data were drawn from a survey mailed to all NDN participants in early 1978, and are presented in four sections, mostly in the form of graphs, tables and charts.…

Current practice in educational program evaluation was examined through analyses of 232 reports submitted, from 1980 to 1983, by institutions seeking approval for their programs from the U.S. Department of Education's Joint Dissemination Review Panel (JDRP). The JDRP reviews these reports to determine whether educational programs have demonstrated…

A national study examined the system of performance measures and standards that had been approved in each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands in response to the 1990 Perkins Act. Descriptive survey and content analysis research methods were used to develop summary sheets categorizing the types of…