Presented is a brief summary of an extensive three-volume evaluation report of the National Science Foundation Comprehensive Assistance to Undergraduate Science Education (CAUSE) program, a program developed to encourage the improvement in quality and effectiveness of undergraduate science education in institutions of higher education. Within this…

The paper describes an instructional program that teaches basic decoding skills to learning disabled children, presents the rationale for its development, and offers results of field trials designed to evaluate its effectiveness. The program "ABD's (analysis, blending, decoding) of Reading," initially focuses on auditory tasks and the…

Heads of evaluation units in 21 state education agencies responded to a structured telephone interview about their unit's workload, evaluation methods, and associated problems and needs. Time committed to evaluation ranged from 10% to 100% and did not relate to staff size which ranged from 1-72. Eleven states contracted some of their evaluations.…

This report offers a broad outline of the educational programs and supportive services provided by District 24 in Queens, New York. Goals are presented for (1) the district as a whole; (2) the major curriculum areas (reading, mathematics, corrective mathematics, bilingual education, English as a second language, social studies, and education of…

Prepared as part of the evaluation of the Bay Area Writing Project (BAWP), this report compares BAWP to its "critical competitors" (other inservice teacher programs and programs for improving student writing). The BAWP model and ten other program descriptions are presented in identical descriptive formats. Three types of competitors are…

This report presents the results of a Rapid Feedback Evaluation focused on 1) policy questions raised by the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) concerning its Regional Education Service Agency (RESA) program, and 2) future ARC strategies for evaluating and monitoring RESAs. RESAs are organizations established to provide a range of educational…

This document discusses inservice education reform, begun in 1972 and continuing to the present, undertaken to reflect changes (both structural and content) in the elementary-secondary education program of Sri Lanka. Required was a coordinated country-wide program providing continuing education and geared to the social and economic needs of the…

The primary research goal of the Pennsylvania Department of Education is to help solve problems stemming from recent changes in education. The purposes of this publication are to distribute research products in a consolidated format, to share experience and knowledge with other state agencies, and to encourage the use of research findings as a…

This report on a curriculum project incorporating the study of the humanities and mass media is presented in four chapters. The first chapter is an overview and describes the three components of the curriculum project: (1) a new course entitled "Television as Popular Culture," (2) a team-taught course on media theory entitled "The Electric Media,"…

This monograph highlights the elements of four victim-assistance programs which demonstrate the range of services currently being offered. It provides a preliminary look at the impact of such programs and points out where more information is needed. Major topics include victim and witness services and monitoring thereof. The two goals of…

This report summarizes the findings of a one man-month study of the current status and future direction of instructional computing in the Montgomery County, Maryland, Public Schools including computer assisted instruction, computer managed instruction, computer assisted problem solving, and data processing education. The report is presented in six…

An education service center providing inservice programs to constituent school districts acted upon a recommendation that an independent evaluation component be added to their center for the purpose of improving their programs. This report of the first-year experience with the evaluation component is divided into four sections. The first section…

Focusing on the improvement of graduate programs in vocational education, this monograph is organized into two sections. Section 1 reports the results of a survey initiated by the National Resource Panel of graduate programs in vocational education in the United States. Section 2 contains working papers used in a workshop which addressed the…

The document presents the recommendations of the Superintendent of Schools of New York City to the Board of Education for programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), Title I, during 1967-1968. Briefly described are 22 proposed projects, including budget estimates. Also included are summaries of the evaluations by the Center…

Annotations for this 16-item bibliography on audiovisual FLES French courses include details on the aims, content, method, texts, visual aids, coordinated activities, and testing possibilities for each course, as well as listings of course components and their costs. General comments at the end of each course description indicate special features…