This article briefly presents eight basic methods of residence program evaluation. Some of the evaluation methods presented lend themselves easily to process, and others lend themselves to outcome; some are applicable to both. (Author)

Workshop and conference improvement becomes a function of planning, linking, evaluating and following up on all aspects of the workshop experience. (ABM)

Perceptions of the university community regarding the counseling center were judged to be of interest and the Counseling Appropriateness Checklist was used to ascertain these opinions from four basic groups, students, prior clients, instructional staff, and the Student Affairs staff. Results are discussed. (Author)

GAS (Goal Attainment Sealing) is an administrative technique used to determine program success through defining and measuring program goals. (MB)

An evaluation of a college summer enrichment program is described in which analysis of covariance is used to focus on the impact of the program on college academic work. The integration of this statistical study into the decision making process of an evaluation task force is also described. (Author/JKS)

Discusses three different settings which illustrate the need for a cost-benefit type of evaluation and then gives examples of objective-based evaluation, goal-free evaluation, and cost-benefit evaluation. (RK)

Many independent schools are now devising or revising procedures for assessing the performance of their teaching staffs. How can they make sure that their evaluation programs will be fair to the teacher and useful to the school and the community? Discusses some common pitfalls in faculty evaluation programs. (Author/RK)

After a brief discussion of the terms implementation and monitoring, this article illustrates a strategy for monitoring program implementation. The strategy, called model-guided method, offers a way to develop conceptual and empirical specifications for testing the adequacy of a program implementation. It also provides feedback to program…

The method of social validation was used to evaluate the behavioral treatment objectives of autistic children. Responses of 24 parents of autistic children, 29 behavior therapists, and 48 student teachers regarding their judgments of treatment goals demonstrated the usefulness of the technique and differences among the three groups of evaluators.…

Ten functions of program theory are reviewed: contributing to social science knowledge; assisting policymakers, discriminating between theory failure and program failure, identifying the problem and target group, providing program implementation description, uncovering unintended effects, specifying intervening variables, improving formative use…

The article provides an overview of benefit cost analysis and its limitations and reviews the applications of benefit-cost analysis within vocational programs for persons with severe disabilities. Recommendations are made to assist state and program developers in choosing among program alternatives. (Author/DB)

The differences between evaluation of academic units and evaluation of administrative units are discussed, and the development and implementation of a procedure for administrative unit evaluation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is described. (MSE)

This third and final article on effectiveness and efficiency in industrial training contains a number of suggestions on how to improve training effectively and describes how they are going about it in the Netherlands. (Author)

The Comprehensive Evaluation Model is useful in helping address issues related to program quality, cost-effectiveness, and program improvement. Four levels of program effects can be evaluated: participant reaction, learning, transfer of learning, and organizational impact of the program. (Author/MLW)

Stresses the importance of evaluating occupational programs on a regular basis. Offers a brief explanation of the approaches to program evaluation taken at the Dallas County Community College District (TX), South Puget Sound Community College (WA), and Triton College (IL). Offers a list of references on program evaluation. (CBC)