Children of Drug Court clients are at high-risk for substance abuse and other risk factors. This paper summarizes the results of a program needs assessment, process evaluation, and outcome evaluation from the Kentucky Drug Court Strengthening Families Pilot Program. Results indicated overall positive changes for families in the program.…

A program evaluation was completed for a Virtual Reality (VR) pilot project intended to aid deaf children in learning various life skills which they may be at risk of not adequately learning. Such skills include crossing the street safely, exiting a building during a fire drill, and avoiding situations in which strangers may harm them. The VR was…

This report covers the third year of Chapin Hall's process evaluation of the Prime Time Initiative of Palm Beach County, Florida, a system-building effort to strengthen the quality of after-school programs in the county. During the past two decades, the after-school field has expanded enormously, partly in response to increasing concern about…

This paper describes a project aimed at helping children and their families achieve their potential. It is based in an area of high social disadvantage. The authors explain how parenting classes held at a community college (a comprehensive school with provision for adult education), have led to the development of a suite of courses leading to…

Responding to calls by Missouri's Coordinating Board of Higher Education and in turn by Northeast Missouri State University, the communication faculty appointed a committee on oral communication assessment. The committee submitted to the communication faculty an assessment proposal that focused on answering the question of whether the basic speech…

During the 1992-93 school year, Billings School District #2 implemented full inclusion of students with disabilities at Garfield Elementary. A Regular Education Initiative Committee of district administrators, teachers, board members, parents, community representatives, and Eastern Montana College faculty met on a regular basis to study the…

This report describes the first year (Phase I) of the 3-year evaluation of the Child and Family Mental Health (CFMH) Project. Phase I was designed to provide a descriptive analysis of the CFMH Project in terms of the number and characteristics of recipients of the services, the nature and extent of the specific primary prevention approaches used,…

Two research questions are addressed in this report: What outcomes are appropriate and feasible to use as criteria for evaluating vocational programs? and What procedures can be used for evaluating vocational education on the basis of specified outcome criteria? Following brief reference to earlier studies on vocational education outcomes, fifteen…

THE DUAL PURPOSES OF THIS 1965 PILOT STUDY OF THE 103 NATIONAL DEFENSE EDUCATION ACT SUMMER INSTITUTES IN ENGLISH WERE TO DRAW CONCLUSIONS ABOUT HOW A STUDY OF INSTITUTES COULD BEST BE CONDUCTED AND WHAT OUGHT TO BE THE PURPOSES OF SUCH A STUDY, AND TO REPORT ON WHAT THE INSTITUTES ACCOMPLISHED, TENTATIVELY EVALUATING THEIR EFFECTIVENESS. THE…

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…

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GUIDANCE PILOT PROJECTS STRESSING THE DEVELOPMENTAL-PREVENTIVE APPROACH TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COUNSELING ARE PRESENTED FOR EVALUATION. ALTHOUGH GENERAL GOALS WERE ESTABLISHED, EACH PROJECT WAS TO EXPERIMENT IN DEVELOPING ITS OWN SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES, PRACTICES, PROCEDURES, AND EVALUATIVE TECHNIQUES. SOME 34,592 CHILDREN FROM A…

The Appalachian region of Southwest Virginia was selected as a surplus labor area in a pilot project to show the effectiveness of using financial assistance to increase mobility and reduce unemployment. Most of the workers were relocated in Alexandria, Newport News, Richmond, and Petersburg. Of the 920 unemployed workers interviewed, 200 were…

Evaluation reports of the activities in special education and supportive services funded under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act are contained in this volume. Components in special education were designed to meet the needs of handicapped disadvantaged pupils in both public and nonpublic schools. Title I experiences in special…

This composite, descriptive report describes the 23 NDEA Title V-A pilot elementary guidance programs which have operated in Michigan during the fiscal year 1968-69. These short summaries represent condensations obtained from the applications of pilot programs. Each summary includes the district name, the superintendent, the contact person, and…

Appendixes to the final report on the Yonkers and Syracuse, New York, career education projects are contained in this volume. Third party evaluation reports (Appendix D) comprise the entire document with the exception of six pages (containing Appendixes A, B, C, E, and F which provide brief information concerning related career education programs…