Intended as an aid to school systems in planning and executing evaluation of educational projects and programs, this handbook presents the technical aspects of evaluation in a practical way. The chapters of the handbook are: 1. Assessment of Needs; 2. Establishment of Objectives; 3. Measurement of Objectives; 4. Dissemination of Evaluation; and 5.…

Current approaches being made to program evaluation are examined, and some of the implications for academic programs in higher education are considered. The conceptual shifts that are involved in the changing demands placed upon educational evaluation are summarized as: (1) an increasing emphasis on the use of tests and measurements for feedback…

The potential social impact of the Children's Television Workshop (CTW), originator of Sesame Street, the Electric Company, and other innovative educational ventures, and the fact that it is supported largely by public monies are strong reasons for examining the full implications of the workshop's achievements. This study was designed to identify…

Evaluation in its true concept should be a process for collecting information to make better decisions. The author discusses in detail four planning stages to evaluate programs. The first stage of the process is to ascertain the decision areas of concern. In the second stage, the evaluator must select the appropriate information-gathering…

Part 1 of this monograph discusses the status of educational evaluation and describes several problems in carrying out such evaluation: (1) defining the educational setting, (2) defining decision types, (3) designing educational evaluation, (4) designing evaluation systems, and (5) defining criteria for judging evaluation. Part 2 proposes an…

There is a definite need to establish a framework and a set of procedures for evaluating school psychological services. Studies reported to date tend to be fairly molecular and difficult to relate to program changes. The model proposed, a model of system evaluation, has the advantage of looking at the "Gestalt," of concerning itself with ways in…

This evaluation of Northeastern State College (N.S.C.) concerns the faculty, research, publications, and in-service activities. Research covered a) evaluation of graduates who teach in northeast Oklahoma public schools, b) a survey of training needed for business education intern teachers in terms of equipment, c) an evaluation of the speech…

The Illinois system has been designed to continuously evaluate the total occupational programs of its LEAs. Consisting of three phases, the system involves local planning, state review and evaluation of local planning documents, and on-site visitation to the LEA conducted by a team of individuals from outside the agency. The structure of the…

Designed as a reference to contemporary evaluation approaches, this monograph brings together a variety of old and new frameworks and ideas about evaluation and shows how they are related to one another. Section I provides an overview of the contemporary evaluation scene. Section III presents summaries of over 50 approaches to evaluation from a…

A teacher preparation evaluation model was developed at Western Kentucky University. A total of 18 secondary and 20 elementary student teachers participated in the study. Instrumentation and records used for data collection consisted of five general types: a questionnaire, a personality scale, rating scales, direct classroom observational systems,…

The definition, structures, utilities, stimulus-response differences, and portrayals of responsive evaluation are presented. An educational evaluation is said to be a "responsive evaluation" if it orients more directly to program activities than to program intents, if it responds to audience requirements for information, and if the different…

Study abroad programs have become more and more widespread over the past several years, and presently 25,000 students are involved in some kind of foreign study program for which academic credit may be earned. Critics of foreign study programs feel that the movement for international and intercultural education has expanded too quickly and without…

This evaluation form provides the teachers of Roslyn High School with the means by which to subjectively evaluate the school's tracking system. The six sections of the form, each of which provide for five possible responses, are concerned with the teacher's satisfaction with homogeneous grouping, how the teacher compares the advantages and…

A study conducted of Title I evaluation practices in urban districts which comprised the membership of the Council of the Great City Schools and to identify special problems related to Title I evaluation, as well as make recommendations for improving evaluation practices, is presented. The report contains the following sections: I. Evaluation of…

Positive and negative aspects of evaluating change programs are discussed, and a process evaluation model is proposed. The four specific areas upon which the paper focuses are as follows: (1) definitions of evaluation and evaluation research and a review of some approaches to evaluation; (2) the functional consequences of evaluation; (3) arguments…