The booklet describes the conceptual approach and operation of the evaluation plan used by Project CAST (Community and School Together), a community-ased career education program for handicapped students. Three levels of evaluation are proposed for providing data for both formative and summative evaluation; these levels are: (1) effort evaluation,…

This report presents an assessment of Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (DHEW) services delivery to American Samoans residing in California, Hawaii, and American Samoa. The evaluation includes analyses of human services needs, resources, and delivery. The effectiveness of human services delivery was assessed using interviews with Samoan…

A community-oriented treatment program was successful according to its clinical objectives for deinstitutionalizing psychiatric patients but failed at the systems level. Responsibility is traced to developing a community-oriented program in an institutionally oriented system. Suggestions are made to ensure success through three steps, including…

This book gives step-by-step instructions on how to design, implement, and present an evaluation study for a museum or other settings for informal education, and it presents guidelines for studying the experiences of visitors in informal educational settings. The chapters are: (1) "Planning an Evaluation Project"; (2) "Informal…

The final report details activities of a 3-year child abuse and neglect program which provided community and professional education about child abuse as well as treatment services (individual counselinq, crisis intervention, medical care, and homemaking services). Implementation pproblems and operation issues (including staff turnover and the use…

Intended for persons evaluating arts education programs in which artists and museum people make presentations to school students on a regular basis, this model integrates qualitative with quantitative assessments. (Author/RM)

This publication stresses the existence of a wide range of instructional resources available to teachers planning field trips. The first chapter presents a brief history of educational field trips and their value as teaching tools. Teacher liability and school board policies are also discussed. Chapter Two deals with the details that must…

Sprague High School's program to train career education resource teachers was designed to recruit and prepare approximately 15 individuals from business, industry, and the professions who would provide exploratory career experiences and information to students. A four-page outline covers the program's objectives, procedures, a third party…

In this component of the evaluation, the Circles of Care grantees assessed the feasibility of their model systems of care. The goal of the Feasibility Assessment was to assure that each model system of care was well designed with careful consideration of project goals, community resources and readiness, cultural competence and measurable outcomes.

This article presents evaluation data from the Placement Prevention Program, created to meet the needs of students through integration of school, family, and community resources. The Placement Prevention Program relies on the integration of home, school, and community resources within a school district. The program began in 1996 with four goals:…

Completed by a WICHE intern as part of an effort to bring together community organizations with institutions of higher education, the report compiles and assesses the educational program presently offered by the Grand Junction Historical Museum and Institute of Western Colorado. A major objective was to help the museum develop a program to change…

The Flexible Campus Program, the author believes, has given Boston's schools system-wide innovation by offering real curriculum alternatives and meaningful, supervised, career and future-oriented'' learning opportunities that draw on community resources. (Editor)

This handbook is for anyone interested in developing a community educational outreach program. It was prepared as part of a project concerned with teaching personal and family finance. Its content, however, is general enough in nature to apply to any type of education project. An introduction presents information on the development of the…

This planning guide is divided into two sections. Section I presents a rationale for and definition of outreach for the field of rehabilitation. Section II is a training guide which provides specific information and planning procedures necessary to design and evaluate outreach programs. This section leads the agency management staff through…