Described in this report is a study which was undertaken in Wisconsin to evaluate the effectiveness of the Parent-Child Nutrition Education Project. A review of literature dealing with parent-centered approaches in education is provided. The study's focus, its methodology, its training of parents and data collected from pre and post tests of the…

The effect of Bronx Community College counseling program on the academic suspension rate of probationary students was investigated. The significance of the difference between the percentage of probationary students suspended at the end of the Fall 1977 semester and those suspended at the end of the Spring 1978 semester was computed. For…

To provide feedback on program for the visually impaired in the State of Wisconsin, a followup study was done on 98 persons who had been enrolled in such programs and who had been out of school for a period of 3 to 13 years. The study focused on adaptation, and was concerned with many facets of everyday living, including such things as academic…

Field testing of learning materials developed by the Counselors Expanding Career Options (CECO) Project, specifically The Whole Person Book, was conducted during the 1977-1978 school year in 72 secondary schools in Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, and Colorado. The field test design established three comparison groups of secondary counselors and teachers.…

This volume on bilingual education contains the following ten articles: "The Establishment of Language Education Policy in Multilingual Societies," by Bernard Spolsky, "Bilingualism and Bilingual Education-The Ancient World to the Renaissance," by E. Glyn Lewis, "The Sociology of Bilingual Education," by Joshua A. Fishman, "Linguistic Perspectives…

Each recipient of Vocational Education Act funds must establish a local advisory council, composed of lay representatives of business, industry, and labor, to advise it on current job needs and on the relevancy of vocational/technical course offerings. This report reviews the literature pertinent to advisory committees for community college…

Sixty-one evaluation products developed or published by universities; federal, state, intermediate, and local educational agencies; commercial publishers; private research and development agencies, and others are described, to help potential users identify, select, and obtain useful materials. Potential users include teachers; administrators;…

The cross-levels hypothesis is presented as an explanation for program evaluation failures. It states that the usefulness of evaluation data as feedback for decision making varies inversely with the number of organizational levels between the action the data describe, and the decisions they are intended to influence. To be useful for decision…

The British Columbia Social Studies Assessment program gathered information about: (1) students' knowledge, skills, and opinions of society and social studies; (2) the reaction of various publics to student performance; (3) the relationship of school and non-school factors to student performance; (4) professional and non-professional views of the…

The current status of the program for the reform of higher education in Sweden (enacted in 1977) is reported. Principles of the program, which is designed to monitor program implementation and collect information concerning the reform, are outlined. Among the principles identified are that the evaluation was designed to pinpoint problem areas and…

The paper explores various aspects of evaluation of interdisciplinary programs in social sciences at the college level. Program evaluation is concerned with changes in student knowledge, skills, and attitudes as a result of participation in a given program. It is also concerned with resources, priorities, quality, and results of specific…

The purpose of this study was to assess the procedures and performances of comprehensive high schools in Georgia and to gather data for guiding future programs. The 112 comprehensive high schools in Georgia offer a combination of vocational and traditional academic programs. This report focuses on the input, process, and output of the…

Presented is a bibliography that cites research studies and articles related to Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS), and provides a brief summary of these research studies and articles and some commentary within 5 categories. These 5 categories are: (1) SCIS and teachers, 8 studies or articles are reported within this category which are…

The evaluation design, which prescribes when and from whom to gather data, is described as significant because it can lend credibility to evaluation results. The objectives of this booklet are to aid the evaluator in: choosing a design; putting it into operation; and analyzing and reporting the data. Examples include both formative and summative…

A prior national evaluation suggested that children enrolled in the Parent Education Follow Through Program performed equal to or better than non-Follow Through children on several achievement subtests. The present study involved multivariate analysis of first through third grade achievement data in three Parent Follow Through communities. The…