This handbook reviews several methods for conducting a needs assessment, including surveys, observation, testing, public hearings, spatial analysis, and conferences. A detailed section on the development of questionnaires is provided, and the appendices include samples of questionnaire information handouts, a nominal group process technique,…

This resource guide, one of a series of annotated bibliographies describing the collection of the lending library of the Vocational Special Needs (VSN) Program at Texas A&M University, lists available materials dealing with assessment and evaluation. Covered in the individual sections of the guide are the following topics: general resources;…

During the course of investigations on such topics as the instructional styles, interaction patterns and personality characteristics of teachers, the organizational structure of schools, the technology of instruction, and the affective and cognitive growth of students, researchers have developed hundreds of psychological and educational…