This 13-item parent questionnaire is part of a study conducted in the Springfield, Illinois high schools to evaluate the double shift scheduling program instituted there. Parents' reactions and opinions concerning the new scheduling technique are determined by a combination of forced-choice and open-ended questions. See also TM 000 881, 883-884…

This 32-item faculty questionnaire is part of a study conducted in the Springfield, Illinois high schools to evaluate the double shift scheduling program instituted there. Teachers' reactions and opinions on the new scheduling technique are determined by the forced-choice and open-ended items. See also TM 000 881-883 for information on the study,…

These 2 articles argue that the presentation of drug information in drug education has no relevance. Hoffman reviews the various approaches to drug education, most of which are based upon the idea that giving people information will act as a deterrent to their use of drugs. A scale was administered to a large and varied population of students to…

Following a brief overview of the teacher education center movement in Greater Cleveland, a questionnaire evaluation system designed to evaluate the center is described. The system is designed to enable questionnaire responses from student teachers, cooperating teachers, and center coordinators to be developed into two distinct kinds of reports.…

This questionnaire is used in the Educational Quality Assessment Program in the state of Pennsylvania. It includes checklists for the following kinds of information concerning teachers: locale, stability, college, mother's education, father's occupation, attitudes relating to professional recognition, career interests, salary, length of service,…

This questionnaire, used in the Educational Quality Assessment Program in Pennsylvania, was designed to be filled out by school administrators. It requests information about staff size, enrollment size, library books available, hours of paraprofessionals, and quality of housing in school district. It also includes a checklist to show the extent of…

THE FINDINGS OF THE FOLLOWING TWO EXTENSIVE AND DETAILED STUDIES ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER IN BRIEF FORM--(1) THE "STATES AUDIOVISUAL EDUCATION STUDY (SAVES)," CONCERNED WITH PRACTICES OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION IN THE FIELD OF AUDIOVISUAL AND NEW EDUCATIONAL MEDIA, AND (2) A STUDY OF STATE LAWS AFFECTING AUDIOVISUAL EDUCATION. THIS…

A SUMMER PROGRAM IN THE DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF EDUCATIONAL EXPERIMENTS WAS HELD AND ITS RESULTS REPORTED. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN, STATISTICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER USAGE, PREPARATION OF RESEARCH PROPOSALS, SPECIAL TOPICS, AND INDEPENDENT STUDY WERE DISCUSSED. TO AID IN THE EVALUATION OF THE PROGRAM, EACH OF THE 30 PARTICIPANTS ANSWERED A QUESTIONNAIRE…

Procedures and guidelines for use by visitation teams were developed and field tested to determine appropriate activities for such teams in the evaluation of vocational education programs in Virginia, and to expand and improve the annual local evaluation as a self-evaluation procedure. A review of the literature was conducted to determine the…

In June of 1975, students at Templeton Secondary School used a procedure called "arena scheduling" to assist in the construction of their timetables for the 1975-76 school year. Although courses had been selected previously with the aid of a counselor, arena scheduling allowed students some freedom in the choice of the teacher or time of…

A Chinese-Canadian bi-cultural program was carried out in two Toronto public schools which had high percentages of students with a Chinese background. The program was designed to: (1) provide the children of the Chinese parents with educationally sound opportunities to learn the culture and language of their adopted country; (2) preserve the…

This packet of evaluation guidelines and instruments, developed to aid the Kentucky Advisory Council, provides tools and guidelines for evaluating vocational education programs according to relevance of content, job entry skills, and employability skills. The first section is an overview of the evaluation procedures and describes the evaluation…

The concept of "preevaluative research" is examined in the context of a museum exhibition evaluation. It is viewed as distinct from an evaluability assessment. The exhibit preevaluative study indicates that instrumentation and implementation issues are likely to benefit from such activities, but that design and analysis may suffer.…

Presents the results of a questionnaire administered to students of Italian at the School for Foreigners of Siena to determine the following: (1) student characteristics; (2) student motivations for studying Italian; (3) student interests; (4) student linguistic needs; and (5) student evaluation of the program. (CFM)

The third in a series of the Journal of Educational Techniques and Technologies surveys showcasing state-of-the-art learning laboratory systems. Distributor and end users of this system answer questions about its features and use. Distributor responses are in interview form; end users' responses are in tabular form. (Author/LMO)