Two versions of the Disturbing Behavior Checklist (DBC), an indicator of the relative disturbingness of behaviors characteristic of mildly handicapped (emotionally disturbed and learning disabled) students were field tested with 250 and 150 university students, teachers, supervisors, and school psychologists. Both checklists were relatively…

This observation guide lists 270 separate items, in checklist format, to be used for informal evaluation of classroom teachers by their peers. Items for observation are given for mechanics of teaching, scholarship, organization, classroom relationships, and miscellaneous teaching functions, as well as for preparation, topic choice, quality of…

The purpose of this report, presented in five sections, is to provide readers with a general orientation to the Massachusetts Title I Validation Process. Section I responds to some of the most frequently asked questions about validation. Section II describes how and why the validation process originated, outlines other established validation…

Stressing that a positive press-relations program can be extremely helpful to businesses, this publication offers suggestions for establishing press contacts, preparing press releases, holding press conferences, illustrating a story, preparing materials for use in radio and television broadcasts, and developing policies to be followed in emergency…

This self evaluation form, designed to aid librarians in the care and storage of phonograph records, was developed from an extensive literature search on the subject of storage and care of non-book materials. A checklist of items relevant to proper care and storage procedures includes such information as temperature, humidity, types of packaging,…

This self-evaluation form or checklist is designed to assist librarians who work with active non-book collections of films, filmstrips, filmloops, transparencies, and slides in evaluating the quality of their storage and care practices. A rationale for having a storage and care program, and recommendations for storing and taking care of non-book…

Described are the development and field testing of the Revised 1977 Behavior Checklist, one component of a multidisciplinary batter to assess social and emotional dysfunction in populations of 4- and 5-year-old children entering kindergarten. The total screening battery is outlined and development of the 1976 Pilot Version of the Behavior…

A checklist of bibliographies available from the Reference Department of the Indiana State University Library was mailed to each member of the faculty and administrative staff in an effort to improve communications. The list included bibliographies which has been compiled by the library staff within the past five years. Two hundred persons (out of…

The rationale and uses of a checklist for evaluating essays from a second semester college composition course are described in this paper. The checklist has 23 yes/no items organized by subject: content, organization, and mechanics. A scoring rubric which assigns 30 points to the content items and 10 to each of the others is used to convert…

The data-gathering instruments and accompanying materials included in this document were designed, pretested, and evaluated during Phase I of a project to determine the library resource requirements for elementary and secondary students in Philadelphia, and to analyze the contributing part school systems and the public library system might play in…

This document, part of which is in checklist form, sets forth a set of criteria for analyzing materials which are relevant for the education of minority groups. The checklist itself consists of 29 items, each of which must be judged on a scale ranging from "superior" to "not pertinent." Some sample evaluation questions are:…

This guide is a compilation of teaching and behavioral objectives for lessons and activities of the Peabody Language Development Kit--Level P (PLDK-P). An accompanying checklist for each lesson provides space to record responses and reinforcement given each child. The purpose of the guide is to provide means for teachers to evaluate the…

This guide is a compilation of teaching and behavioral objectives for lessons and activities of the Peabody Language Development Kit--Level P (PLDK-P). An accompanying checklist for each lesson provides space to record responses and reinforcement given each child. The purpose of the guide is to provide means for teachers to evaluate the…

The primary purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between student and supervisor evaluations of the effectiveness of general business teachers. A secondary purpose was to identify qualities of effective general business teachers through the use of a performance specimen checklist and a rating scale. The population of the study…

This instrument was designed to record an observation of an individual student's behavior while engaged in a purposeful learning task. The observer must check the appropriate response for each area tested. There is space for written comments. (See TM 001 369 for further information; for a description of the total project, see TM 001 363; for other…