The Columbus (Ohio) 1988 Magnet Schools Continuation Project needs to encourage greater parent involvement by encouraging parent-teacher organizations and informing parents of their children's accomplishments. Major objectives were to enhance the core instructional program, to provide parents with an active partnership experience in their…

Pending legislation for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act mandates the development of performance indicators or standards, which are also called educational indicators, quality indicators, outcome indicators, performance standards, and performance measures. There is general agreement that indicators or standards…

In Iowa, shared superintendency originated in the 1980s as a response to the agricultural recession of the 1980s which had tightened Iowa's public school finance. Iowa lost 80,000 people through out-migration and about 10,000 fewer births occurred, while the school student population decreased by 181,670 during this same period. While nearly every…

Two lessons from a graduate general education course were presented in a live-television format. One group of students was placed in the studio with the instructor and another group in a classroom away from the studio. The classroom was equipped with a monitor enabling students to watch all the action, a telephone to allow them to call in with…

The role of technology and the measurement of educational progress are discussed, with an emphasis on the development of school report cards. Comments are made from the perspectives of (1) a member of a university community and (2) a researcher in evaluation and measurement. Efforts to formulate school report cards in Florida, California, and…

A study developed and validated measures that can be used to assess the effectiveness of the change from an industrial arts teacher education program to technology teacher education. A modified three-phase Delphi design was used to answer two questions: (1) Is the program technology teacher education (i.e., has the change progressed to the point…

Part 1 of this annotated bibliography contains descriptive information on materials developed under the Nutrition Education and Training Program (NET). Each citation contains an abstract, format description, information on place of publication, source, and call number for further information. The materials are grouped in nine chapters by audience…

Evaluation affects the people who participate and the situation studied, and there is no guarantee that the effects will be democratic, constructive, or equitable. A case study illustrates that even the most scrupulous attention to ethical principles and procedures for the release of information cannot always protect the interests of participants…

This paper reports on the external evaluation of a project to expand existing services in the Orange County (Florida) school district to handicapped students with limited English proficiency (LEP). Major goals of the project include development, demonstration, and packaging of methods, procedures, and materials for identifying, placing, and…

A pilot program based on a school-based decision making model (SBDM) implemented in eight inner city schools is evaluated in this report. The relationships between program effectiveness and school climate, between teacher characteristics and teacher perceptions of school climate, and between student characteristics and student perceptions of…

This descriptive report summarizes data on students enrolled in the Des Moines Independent Community School District's English as a Second Language (ESL) program for Southeast Asian students. By law the district is required to provide special English instruction for students who have a limited command of English. Goals of the ESL program include:…

The politics of program evaluation are discussed from the personal perspective of the Director of the General Accounting Office's Program Evaluation and Methodology Division, which has produced reports for committees of the United States Congress. It is concluded that successful evaluations must be useful to others and must understand the…

This paper describes a health education program developed by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin for students at a university health center. Three goals of the program, which was targeted at 2,000 incoming first-year students, are listed: (1) to increase student awareness of existing services related to contraception and prevention/treatment of…

This administrative guide is intended to assist those interested and involved in developing, administering, and teaching moped rider education in Iowa. It is divided into three parts. The first outlines the guide's purpose, presents the rationale behind moped rider education, and cites pertinent sections from the Iowa State Code and Iowa…

Testing to assess student learning in general education and the extent to which students achieve general education goals at Trenton State College were examined. Faculty reported that the general education program most emphasized both problem solving and communication and research and least emphasized the arts and non-Western civilization. Two…