Interviews with 940 Iowa farm operators and their wives were conducted during 1977 to address the question of perceived extension effectiveness (the degree to which the respondent perceived the Cooperative Extension Service as meeting his/her needs). Two models of organizational effectiveness were advanced and suggested as being consistent with…

A bilingual Title I program conducted for 251 Yiddish speaking students in grades 1-8 is evaluated in this report. The objectives of the program, which operated in six Yeshivas in Brooklyn, New York's District 20, are outlined. Staffing instructional patterns, student eligibility and participation, and student achievement evaluation procedures are…

This review of the research on the evaluation of career education provides a review and synthesis of five major publications prepared for and/or published for the United States Office of Education and considers a number of problems and promises facing evaluators of career education in the eighties. Reviewed are reports prepared by Tuckman and…

The bilingual Early Childhood Centers Program was established in three public and four non-public schools ln District 14 (Brooklyn, New York) as a response to the needs of children in grades K-2 with limited English proficiency. Participants were from Spanish or Yiddish dominant homes. The curriculum offered instruction in English as a Second…

AN EVALUATION WAS CONDUCTED OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE FIRST SUMMER'S ADVANCED INSTITUTES IN GEOGRAPHY PROGRAMS, WHICH WILL SERVE AS A GUIDE TO THE DESIGN AND OPERATION OF FUTURE INSTITUTES. A TEAM OF NINE EVALUATORS VISITED 20 OF THE 40 INSTITUTES AND FOCUSED THEIR EVALUATION ON (1) EFFECTIVENESS OF COMMITMENT, PERSONNEL, AND GEOGRAPHICAL…

The Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I Wisconsin Migrant Education Conference was held on August 6, 1979 to evaluate programs and to gather program planning data. Data for this evaluation were collected by means of both structured interaction of the 53 conference participants and questionnaires completed by participants. The teachers felt…

Ten literacy pilot programs developed by the Adult Basic Education Society (ABES) of Pakistan in Gujranwala, Pakistan, between 1963 and 1973 were analyzed and evaluated to evolve a series of adult literacy program development guidelines. The programs were evaluated on the basis of an eleven-category evaluation system developed by Cyril Houle in…

This report describes and evaluates the community school program in the Mt. Diablo Unified School District (MDUSD) during the period of September, 1978 through December, 1979. In addition to documenting two community schools funded by a federal grant, the report also describes three other community school programs in MDUSD funded by adult…

This report provides a program description and evaluation findings of a bilingual program for gifted and talented children conducted at C.S. 211, an elementary school serving black and Hispanic children in an economically deprived area of the Bronx, New York. The program's goals, which included above grade level reading and mathematics performance…

The results of an evaluation of a Title VII bilingual education program conducted in four Central Harlem (New York City) elementary and junior high schools are presented in this report. The program, which consisted of bilingual (Spanish and English) instruction in language and reading skills, mathematics, science, and social studies, is briefly…

An evaluation study examined the effectiveness of the training and technical assistance provided, amount and type of assistance provided, and results and benefits of a project to provide community education training and technical assistance in Kentucky. Result evaluation data were obtained from community education practitioners by a questionnaire.…

This evaluation research report describes a program originally implemented to meet the needs of English dominant Hispanic students in an urban junior high school. The report combines qualitative and quantitative data in order to provide an understanding of the relationship of program goals, implementation procedures, and effects and delineates…

This report presents the results of an evaluation of the Nonprofit Organization Program (NPO) of the Emergency School Aid Act of 1972. The program provides financial assistance to nonprofit community organizations to support the development or implementation of public school desegregation or otherwise reduce or eliminate minority group isolation.…

This thesaurus is designed to provide the vocational education community and its relevant audiences with a comprehensive, organized listing of outcome questions and hypotheses. The first of two sections includes a discussion of the importance as well as problems of attempting to develop a classification system for categorizing vocational outcomes.…

This paper provides a brief review of the Lewiston program and evaluates the vocational education project on the basis of the objectives around which it was originally developed. Each of fourteen objectives listed is discussed in terms of how well and effectively the objective was met during the tenure of the project. Major factors considered…