The purposes of the school management training project were to study the outcome of experimental activities in the field of school management training; to describe the various forms of training occurring in the different training sectors; and to study the outcome of these various forms of training. The two-year training consisted of training…

The report describes a model program designed to develop, implement, and evaluate services to health impaired children in compliance with the mandates of Public Law 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act). The first four chapters provide an introduction, statement of the problem, research strategy, and review of the literature.…

This volume reports on a study to investigate the effectiveness of a developmental, individualized reading laboratory program at the middle-school and high-school levels. The program was developed and evaluated over a four-year period, at the F.K. Yonge Laboratory School, located at the University of Florida at Gainesville. Promising results…

The Comprehensive School Mathematics Program (CSMP) is a program of CEMREL, Inc., one of the national educational laboratories and is funded by the National Institute of Education. Its major purpose is the development of curriculum materials in mathematics for grades K-6. Beginning in September, 1973, CSMP began an extended pilot trial of its…

Meta evaluation, or the evaluation of evaluations, was applied to a technology for program documentation and evaluation used in a mainstreaming project. The technology consisted of four phases: (1) planning for decision-making; (2) documenting actual program outcomes; (3) implementing decisions; and (4) instituting program renewal. This pilot meta…

This paper outlines a plan to assess the effectiveness of individually guided education (IGE) in American elementary schools. The evaluation plan is based on a framework that identifies variables and relationships among variables in four categories: IGE support system components, pupil and staff background, means of instruction, and pupil and…

A three-year longitudinal description is presented of a college health aide program, and an assessment is made of the changes resulting from a cutback in funding. In this program students are trained as paraprofessional health aides and serve in this capacity in their group residences for a small weekly salary. A record of the number of visits…

THIRTY-FOUR PUBLIC SCHOOL GUIDANCE COUNSELORS FROM SIX NEW ENGLAND STATES, NEW YORK, AND NEW JERSEY PARTICIPATED IN AN INSTITUTE TO BECOME ACQUAINTED WITH THE PROBLEMS AND SPECIAL TECHNIQUES INVOLVED IN COUNSELING THE URBAN DISADVANTAGED STUDENT. THE PROGRAM CONSISTED OF LECTURES BY OUTSTANDING AUTHORITIES IN THE FIELD, LIMITED DISCUSSION PERIODS,…

THE JUNIOR COLLEGE TEACHER INTERNSHIP PROGRAM AT UCLA HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO PRODUCE LEARNING SPECIALISTS, AND ALL PHASES OF THE PROGRAM ARE INTENDED TO DEVELOP THE INTERN'S ABILITY TO SPECIFY OBJECTIVES, TO SELECT APPROPRIATE MEDIA, AND TO GATHER AND EVALUATE EVIDENCE OF LEARNING. IN THE SUMMER BEFORE HE BEGINS TEACHING, EACH INTERN ENROLLS IN A…

PRESENTED ARE DESCRIPTIONS OF 18 TYPICAL PROJECTS IN VERMONT WHICH WERE DEVELOPED WITH ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT TITLE I FUNDS. ARRANGED BY CITY OR TOWN, EACH BRIEF PROJECT RESUME PRESENTS A STATEMENT ABOUT THE NEED AND SUBSTANTIATION (BASELINE DATA), TITLE, PROJECT DESCRIPTION, PROPOSED EVALUATION METHODS, AND COST. OVERALL, THE…

THE INSTITUTE WAS HELD TO IMPROVE INSTRUCTION AND UPDATE CURRICULUM OFFERINGS THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND PROCEDURES WHEREBY INDUSTRIAL MATERIALS MAY BE INTEGRATED INTO THE LABORATORY ACTIVITIES OF INDUSTRIAL ARTS PROGRAMS. THE 24 PARTICIPANTS WERE TEACHER EDUCATORS, SUPERVISORS, AND TEACHERS FROM 16 STATES. PHASE I…

Project MACK's major goal was to provide a comprehensive school program at McClymonds High School in Oakland, California that would reduce the dropout rate, improve student achievement, reduce absenteeism and class-cutting, and improve student attitudes toward school. Project components included 1) Career Cluster Program, which focused on work…

This source book provides brief descriptions of exemplary Title I, Elementary and Secondary Education Act programs that have been approved for dissemination as of November of 1977. For each project the following sets of data are provided: (1) the target audience of the program, (2) a description, (3) tests administered to program participants and…

Presented is the final report of a project to provide occupational home economics teachers with learning experiences designed to increase their knowledge and skills in working with students with special needs. Three phases of the project are outlined: development, implementation, and evaluation. Results of the project are provided in table form,…

After a discussion of experiential learning as an element in higher education and of the program evaluation process used in this study, six different but successful experiential learning programs in engineering are described and compared. From these comparisons some conclusions are drawn about important program elements. The six programs described…