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Bruininks, Robert H., Ed.; And Others – 1988
This benefit-cost evaluation project provides a comprehensive analysis of a school district special education program. The project addressed the need for information on ways to evaluate special education programs and to make programmatic decisions based on evaluation information. Project activities focused on the following four interrelated areas:…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection, Disabilities, Dropouts
Lytle, Susan L.; Wolfe, Marcie – 1989
Adult literacy programs need reliable information about program quality and effectiveness for accountability, improvement of practice, and expansion of knowledge. Evaluation and assessment reflect fundamental beliefs about adult learners, concepts of literacy, and educational settings. Resources for planning program evaluations include surveys,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
Black, Hartzel; And Others – 1989
Because of a perceived lack in the development and use of evaluation procedures for vocational education in Illinois, a new evaluation system was begun in 1984. It required that at least 20 percent of funded vocational programs be evaluated annually, in compliance with requirements of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act. The evaluation…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Educational Needs, Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Program Evaluation and Methodology Div. – 1990
A study examined the information collected by the Department of Defense on both the quality of its new recruits and the effectiveness of its training in preparing recruits to operate in a technologically sophisticated environment. It found that data were collected at a recruit's entrance to military life, during and upon completion of formal…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Data Collection, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Robinson, Maxine – 1990
The evaluation process and results asociated with 1989-1990 reading (kindergarten through grade 12) and language arts (kindergarten through grade 5) programs of the Des Moines (Iowa) Independent Community School District are presented. The evaluation is divided into four parts: context; input; process; and product. Language arts instruction…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Packard, Richard D.; Dereshiwsky, Mary I. – 1990
Tabular procedures for analyzing open-ended responses were used to study a school district's educational reform program. Responses of a rural Arizona Career Ladder (CL) school district's teachers and administrators to three pairs of open-ended questions contained in the 1989 Perception Assessment Scale survey comprised the data base for the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Attitude Measures, Career Ladders
Ligon, Glynn; Baenen, Nancy R. – 1990
GENESYS is the GENeric Evaluation SYStem of the Office of Research and Evaluation, Austin (Texas) Independent School District. It is a method of streamlining data collection and evaluation for a variety of projects. GENESYS gathers data from the school system's data bases and reports the following information (characteristics and outcomes) on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Computer Uses in Education, Credits
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McCoy, Kay R. – 1990
The Inferred Program Cost (IPC), a program evaluation indicator in use at Prince George's Community College (PGCC), represents the cost of one student completing the curriculum requirements for a degree or certificate program/option as specified in the current college catalog. The IFP for each program is the dollar amount representing the…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Associate Degrees, Community Colleges, Cost Effectiveness
Berney, Tomi D.; Plotkin, Donna – 1990
Project COM-TECH offered bilingual individualized instruction, using an enrichment approach, to Spanish- and Haitian Creole-speaking students with varying levels of English and native language proficiency and academic preparation. The program provided supplementary instruction in English as a Second Language (ESL); Native Language Arts (NLA); and…
Descriptors: Attendance, Bilingual Education Programs, Computer Literacy, Cultural Awareness
Berney, Tomi D.; Keyes, Jose L. – 1990
The Bronx Computer Literacy and Methodologies of Bilingual Education Program for Vietnamese and Cambodian High School Students (Project CLIMB) served 221 students of limited English proficiency (LEP) at Christopher Columbus and Walton High Schools in the Bronx (New York City). The objectives of the program were to develop the students' academic…
Descriptors: Attendance, Bilingual Education Programs, Cambodians, English (Second Language)
McManus, Walter – 1983
Modeling and data collection efforts needed to develop a test of the effectiveness of adult literacy and language training programs in increasing the earnings of trainees are reviewed. After reviewing the framework developed for the Manpower Development and Training Act and the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) evaluations and the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection
Simpson, Carl – 1986
This guide is intended to assist states and service delivery areas (SDAs) in addressing the new oversight responsibilities and opportunities stipulated by the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) with respect to planning and conducting a gross impact evaluation. The following topics are covered in the individual chapters: introduction and overview…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Legislation, Employment Programs
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Planning, Evaluation, and Research Div. – 1984
California's demonstration programs in reading and mathematics are the State's only educational programs whose funds are used exclusively to serve low-achieving students from disadvantaged areas at the junior high-middle school level. The purpose of the programs is threefold: to establish exemplary programs in reading and mathematics instruction…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs, Diffusion (Communication)
Smith, Ester Gottlieb; Holt, Nancy – 1979
This report examines current state practices and procedures for assessing vocational education programs in light of the evaluation requirements of the 1976 Vocational Education Act Amendments. The report is based on information obtained through personal and telephone interviews with vocational education administrative personnel in the states,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compliance (Legal), Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Hunting, Gordon; And Others – 1986
This guide is intended to serve as a systematic checklist for evaluators of vocational training institutions and for directors of schools or skills centers who want to identify areas in need of improvement. Discussed first are steps in defining the purpose of the evaluation (nature and objectives of the project, point of view, and the initial…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Curriculum Evaluation, Enrollment Trends, Equipment Evaluation
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