A study used pretests/posttests and experimental/control groups to evaluate four business communication skills (BCS) programs conducted with employees at the University of Texas at Austin. Of 91 BCS participants, 86 were women and ages for all participants ranged from 20 to 61 years. Del Gaizo's four levels of evaluation (happiness index, learning…

In many universities and colleges around the world, it is an accepted practice to supplement frontal lectures of courses with separate practice classes or tutorials. For this purpose lecturers may sometimes use the services of teaching-assistants to conduct the tutorials. Teaching-assistants conduct tutorials in many courses in Israel's academic…

This report presents a method for measuring the cost of foster family care in local areas through use of governmental and other available data on costs relating to non-foster children. The cost measurement procedures used, for which 32 pages of tables and worksheet forms are provided, are designed to measure average costs in a particular area…

Latent trait model calibration procedures were used on data obtained from a group testing program. The one-parameter model of Wright and Panchapakesan and the three-parameter logistic model of Wingersky, Wood, and Lord were selected for comparison. These models and their corresponding estimation procedures were compared, using actual and simulated…

A summary and analysis of the significant literature on evaluation of vocational education, focusing on a limited number of evaluation efforts that reflect strategies typically used in vocational education, is presented in this information analysis paper. The paper is intended for curriculum developers, teachers, and administrators in vocational…

Utilizing data collected through a national survey of employers, the impact of federal tax credit programs for employers of Work Incentive Program (WIN) participants and Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients was assessed. Six major questions were addressed: (1) What differences there were in the use of the WIN and welfare tax…

Study results on the feasibility of and methods for providing non-traditional, postsecondary educational opportunities for the Fayette, Greene, and Washington counties area of Pennsylvania comprise this report. Summaries of the operations of the John Wood Community College in Illinois, the Hudson Community College Commission in New Jersey, and the…

Findings from the evaluation of the AB 3059 alternative child care programs are presented in this report. (AB 3059 child care programs were mandated by the California legislature in 1976 with the goals of assessing features that might reduce child care costs, ensuring maximum parental choice among facilities, addressing unmet child care needs…

Ways that colleges and universities might respond to a period of fiscal problems are addressed. It is suggested that larger trends must be examined to understand the present situation that bureaucracy and expertise are on the defensive, and that major integrated institutions--churches, parties, unions--are in decline. It is shown that there is now…

In a study to investigate and ensure the effective use of the Ontario university system resources, the Committee on the Future Role of Universities in Ontario: (1) reviewed the development of the university system; (2) set forth current objectives in operational terms; (3) discussed the degree to which objectives were being met; (4) outlined the…

This report describes a pilot energy conservation project in Grande Prairie (Alberta) School District No. 2357. Extensive data collection and analysis were undertaken to provide a sound, quantitative basis for evaluation of the program. Energy conserving measures requiring capital outlays were not considered. During the project, electric demand…

This bibliography is designed to help teachers and administrators effectively address the problems facing them in a time of financial rigor. The citations have been drawn from material appearing over the past five years in ERIC's Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE), and they address such topics as…

The costs involved in providing testing and placement for handicapped children, as required by the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, do not seem to have been taken into sufficient consideration by the legislators enacting the legislation. A study of the direct costs for providing minimal testing and placement services for the 58…

Some of the information needed by policy makers faced with deciding whether and where to develop new educational research and development centers is analyzed in this document. The purpose is to provide an assessment of the current relationships among such factors as funding levels, numbers and sizes of centers, sizes of student populations, state…

A step-by-step procedure, defined to help the Hamden Public Schools (Connecticut) board of education with the task of choosing one or more elementary schools to close, develops a list of criteria used for comparing and ranking elementary schools into a working system intended to give a precise, objective structure to the board's decision-making…