The report summarizes the status of 36 Oregon projects for preschool, elementary, and secondary handicapped children which were funded for the 1975-76 academic year under Title VI-B funds. Evaluations on each project usually provide the following information: title of project, location of project, population served, funding allocated, project…

The report summarizes the status of 49 Oregon projects funded during the 1976-77 academic year under Title VI-B funds for preschool, elementary, and secondary handicapped children. Evaluations on each project usually provide the following information: title of project, location of project, population served, funding allocated, project beginning…

In the state of South Carolina during fiscal year 1977 Title I instructional activities served 127,702 children, 929 of whom were not public school children. The children came predominantly from grades one to six, with the next highest concentration from grades seven to nine. Reading activities were provided for 65% of Title I students and math…

This project was based on the premise of a need for the College of Education, Saskatoon, to improve its supervisory practices. (Editor)

Ten delinquency prevention studies are reviewed that incorporated rigorous evaluative procedures (specifically the classic experimental design) for assessing programmatic outcomes. Following an introduction, the evaluation mechanisms built into each project are described, since they were used for determination of the effectiveness of the…

The report describes evaluation of the elementary and secondary programs which serve 158 Bergen County (NJ) severely and profoundly hard of hearing and deaf students in preschool through Grade 12. An initial section focuses on the Elementary Hearing Impaired Program (HIP). Among the program components addressed are the language development…

A three-year (1979-82) training program funded by the National Institute of Education (NIE) at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville is designed to increase participation by women and minorities in educational research. An objective of the project is the provision of practical experience for doctoral students in project design and data…

The relevancy of parent education program (PEP) activities to family structures, especially non-traditional family structures, was examined among 209 responding PEPs in the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Although programs were not randomly selected, an attempt was made to ensure that those selected…

This project was designed to develop and implement a model for providing a physical education program for the students at Bacon County (Georgia) Junior High School utilizing the resources available. The concept was based on the results of effective programs employing peer tutors as instructors. A corollary goal was to provide positive experiences…

Still photography can help portray educational programs for description and evaluation. There may, however, be problems with this method. Photographic images idealize the subjects; the framing is arbitrary, lends importance and veracity at the same time it levels an event to a very thin slice of reality. The evaluator-photographer may have…

The paper describes a delivery system, the service contract, in which a non-monetary agreement is made between the Title I Project and the facility to provide services to exceptional students. It is explained that the service contract includes a problem statement (for example "the classroom teacher needs demonstration and instruction for a sign…

The project summarized here focuses on the interpretability of vocational education outcome data. The booklet first covers the project problem and background, project objectives, general plan of operation, and the analysis of extant data bases in vocational education. It then discusses a case study of differences in job placement rates reported by…

Program portrayal is one way of addressing the need for increased descriptive capability in evaluation research. Portrayal supplements traditional reporting by utilizing subjective, anecdotal, or impressionistic information, in an appropriately communicable form, to enrich the description of program transactions, settings, and outcomes. It is…

This program was designed to improve reading skills and to provide intensive remediation for students in grades six through nine. Specialized materials and equipment were provided by Educational Development Laboratories (EDL). The EDL Reading Laboratory utilized the Learning 100 program, a multi-modality developmental and remedial program. Small…

Throughout the 1978-1979 school year, four teachers in District 20 in New York City were utilized for the purpose of developing math skills in selected students in four elementary schools. The target students were removed from class for the additional instruction that their needs required. Each teacher met with five groups of students per school…