A procedure for determining the degree to which student performance is meeting expected or desired levels is discussed. Five steps in conducting a needs assessment are listed: (1) a student body profile, relating data already available to the six system-wide goals, is provided for each school; (2) using the student body profile, brainstorming…

This study was conducted to develop a set of guidelines for making community occupational surveys and to examine the extent to which recent surveys conformed to these guidelines. A total of 42 guidelines were developed from literature pertaining to purposes, objectives, procedures, and techniques for planning, conducting, and reporting surveys. Of…

An implementation proposal for a needs assessment model for South Carolina's public schools is presented. Part One, a narrative presentation of the suggested procedure, includes: identification of task force members, formation of the expenditure coordination committee, task force training conferences, task force organizational meetings, task force…

The Fifth Joint Meeting of the State and National Advisory Councils on Vocational Education, held in Washington, D.C., on November 12-13, 1971, was attended by representatives of 47 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, and Guam. This report summarizes the resolutions and discussions on areas of mutual concern and presents texts of…

The Sixth Joint Meeting of the State and National Advisory Councils on Vocational Education, held in Denver, Colorado, on May 5-6, 1972, was attended by representatives of 48 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, and Puerto Rico. Major concerns included evaluations, activities within the six school-based career education models,…

This book is intended as an introduction to the television program, "The Electric Company," designed to help teach reading to children in grades 2-4 who are experiencing difficulty. Contents include: Sidney P. Marland, Jr.'s preface, "A Significant New Teaching Tool"; Joan Ganz Cooney's "Television and the Teaching of…

To determine a cost effectiveness relationship between instructional costs and student achievement gains in reading, six programs in the Grand Rapids, Michigan, Public Schools were studied. Subjects were engaged in three performance contracting programs --Alpha II, Westinghouse Learning Corporation (WLC), and Combined Motivation and Educational…

A WORKSHOP FOR SUPERVISING-TEACHERS WAS ORGANIZED TO PLAN, EXPLORE, AND INNOVATE A MORE COMPLETE PROGRAM IN AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. THE WORKSHOP ALSO INCLUDED DISCUSSION OF ESSENTIAL PHASES OF THE OFF-FARM AGRICULTURAL OCCUPATIONS AS THEY APPLY TO THE PREPARATION OF STUDENT TEACHERS. THIS REPORT INCLUDED (1) A LIST OF PARTICIPANTS FROM 11 WESTERN…

This is the final in a series of evaluative documentations on the 1976 Teacher Corps Conference. It is based on an extensive review of the information submitted on pre- and post-conference assessment forms, on individual session forms, on project team forms, and on extensive and numerous written comments. The focus of the critique was to analyze…

The Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) implies the necessity to program the sequence of steps leading to the completion of a product. It takes cognizance of the need to define clearly each event and recognizes the obligation to describe the start and/or the completion of the interdependent activities. Essentially, the PERT chart is a…

Presented is the guide for gifted and talented programs in Arizona public schools. Included in the first section are definitions of such terms as "gifted", an outline of procedures of the local district to obtain state approval of a proposed program, an application form for program approval, and an outline of a suggested program…

Presented is the final report of a project to develop a program to prepare handicapped students in grades K-12 for careers in the leisure occupations. Described are project activities and procedures undertaken to meet the three basic objectives: 1) to select, develop, and describe a career education program model; 2) to develop and describe an…

Evaluation is often both conceptually and functionally separate from program planning and operations management. There are a number of potentially beneficial side effects to be realized from close collaboration between program administrators and evaluators: when the evaluation task is broadly defined and when both administrators recognize their…

Looks at past evaluation of compensatory education, suggests new approaches to evaluation, and makes recommendations about program implementation. (IRT)

Presents a compilation of ideas and guidelines drawn from ERIC documents for planning and implementing vocational education programs, each of which addresses problems of needs assessment, student interest, articulation, finances and evaluation, but varies in its approach to planning, data collection and evaluation methodology. (AYC)