The Appalachia Educational Laboratory's (AEL) Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) Program was a 3-year project designed to develop a community-based alternative career education program for high school seniors. Internal summative evaluation activities consisted of collecting and analyzing preliminary data, establishing necessary evaluation controls, finalizing a data analysis plan, developing or securing and administering instruments, and analyzing the data and reporting the findings. External summative evaluation activities were conducted by AEL and Educational Testing Service personnel to collect summative data on students, parents, employers, and former students. Questionnaires and standardized tests were administered to all students (juniors and seniors in three experimental groups and two control groups in 11 county high schools) to establish the effect of the AEL/EBCE Program on academic, attitudinal, and maturational variables, using the Student Information Questionnaire, the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills, the Career Maturity Inventory, and the Assessment of Student Attitudes. As a result of the formative and summative evaluation activities during fiscal year 1975 conclusions can be reached: (1) The program did successfully serve as an alternative career education program, (2) the program was demonstrated to be an integrated, transportable product since it was successfully implemented in a local high school, and (3) the program was demonstrated to be an enjoyable experience since it was positively received by students, employers, parents, and former students. Appendixes contain instruments used in the evaluation study. (TA)