Three models of evaluation emerge: objective and independent, objective but serving one interest, and pseudo-scientific public relations. Evaluation of an interdisciplinary mental health education program and roles must all be attended to or the weak link undermines the rest. (Author/RL)

Sales training programs require continual evaluation. The authors present a conceptual model of the interrelationships of planning, training, evaluation, and modification (IPTEM) in corporate sales training programs. (CT)

Describes Iowa State University's Computation Center. Center's responsibilities include computer science research and providing computing services to the university. System Industries' Trade and Exchange program (permitting used Digital Equipment Corporation disk drives to be exchanged for new SI equipment at substantial cost savings) was used to…

Discusses a strategy for organizing mental health programs for American Indian families. Suggests four principles for clinical service: (1) spirituality; (2) immersion with families and the community; (3) "picturing," or the articulation of unconscious family behaviors; and (4) "joining," or the reconstitution of the American Indian family system.…

In focusing on why and how standards might be incorporated into the evaluation process, two themes are explored: the extent to which the Evaluation Research Society (ERS) Standards differ from other recent standards-setting activities and their applicability to local and state-level evaluation efforts. (Author/LC)

A model is presented which can help the cooperative program coordinator monitor the direction and degree of trends in cooperative wage strength as well as the degree of compression or expansion of cooperative wages from year to year. A sample program and implications of the model are included. (CT)

Significant issues from the normalization literature are appraised, misinterpretations discussed, and the normalization formulations' theoretical status considered. It is found that there are no comprehensive theoretical prepositions or substantial empirical evidence which offer serious challenges to normalization of the disabled. (Author/SW)

Six school administrators and computer users give advice on coping with microcomputer software problems. Suggestions include contacting other software users, sampling computer programs or watching software demonstrations before buying, and ensuring adequate program documentation. (RW)

Drawing on their own experiences, the authors suggest starting a program for gifted children by developing community support, choosing an appropriate type of program, assessing staff perceptions of the need for the program, identifying gifted students, developing a curriculum, involving the faculty, securing funding, and choosing the evaluation…

A survey was conducted of accredited colleges and universities in Pennsylvania to investigate knowledge of alternative community living arrangement (ALA) services for developmental disabled persons. Most existing programs in training ALA personnel were offered by small colleges located outside the two large metropolitan centers in Pennsylvania…

Five articles examine various school programs for gifted elementary and junior high school students. (DB)

Presents a systematic process for performing an analysis of program failure in adult education, including ways to identify the type of failure and questions designed to determine its cause. (SK)

Summarizes major concepts and approaches of the Evaluation Training Consortium project, showing how they relate to evaluation in the human resources development context. (CT)

Discusses industry-based industrial arts: components of this base; structure of the base; and organizing industry-based industrial arts programs using processing, management, and model enterprise modules. (CT)

The author discusses the subject of students visiting and doing coursework in foreign countries. She explains the philosophy of the concept, what is occurring in practice, the advantages, and the problems. (CT)