The uses and methods of four levels of evaluation which can be conducted during the development and implementation phases of computer-based instruction (CBI) programs are discussed in this paper. The levels of evaluation presented are: (1) documentation, (2) formative evaluation, (3) assessment of immediate learner effectiveness, and (4) impact…

The project consisted of three related series of studies, designed to (a) determine some of the underlying competencies that contribute to experts' successful problem solving performance in college level mathematics, (b) to determine what productive behaviors students lack, or what counterproductive behaviors they have, that keep them from being…

A series of classroom practices and techniques are provided to help classroom teachers overcome their anxiety in teaching science. Chapter 1 (Fearing the Unknown) focuses on reasons for teaching science in elementary grades, science processes, characteristics of inquiry, questioning and inquiry, and using small groups. Chapter 2 (Managing…

Public school districts in Mississippi established the Program of Research and Evaluation for Public Schools (PREPS) to provide good research and evaluation data for sound decision making. A cooperative arrangement was developed with the College of Education at Mississippi State University. PREPS staff directed research and evaluation activities…

A study of the effect of an "incremental" version of a generative rhetoric approach to writing instruction was conducted to determine whether such an approach would increase students' syntactic complexity. Ninety-eight college students were randomly assigned to one of five experimental or five control sections of a freshman composition…

Through a reexamination of the information collected by two previous studies, this study looked at the role of administrators in desegregating the two school districts observed. Information came from inschool observations and interviews with teachers, principals, and district officials. The findings of the study consist of summaries of the…

A critique of a program evaluation technique called the evaluability assessment model (EAM), this paper describes the technique and its use in evaluating a federal agency. As defined here, EAM is divided into several steps. In the first step, the program description is reviewed to determine whether it is well-enough conceived to be a basis for…

The Langugage Proficiency Assessment Committees (LPACs) authorized by Congress were given the responsibility of assessing limited-English-speaking students within a school district and making placement recommendations regarding these students to the local school board. This packet consists of a variety of materials, mostly handouts to assist in…

In an experimental project, a university instructional development consultant (IDC) provided consultation for a faculty client in a graduate course where the IDC was also enrolled as an auditing student. The course, Issues in Higher Education, was taught by a university administrator complementing his administrative responsibilities, and the…

This report on the third phase of a two-year study of human services information clearinghouses discusses clearinghouses in terms of their role in information dissemination and diffusion, planning considerations, operational cost recovery, overlap and duplication in services, and evaluation techniques and measures. Information was gathered from…

This paper discusses how to teach art history in college level interdisciplinary courses. Today, art historians find themselves involved in teaching art history not only in art history curricula, but also in interdisciplinary studies, such as Ancient Greek Culture, Renaissance in France, and Women in Art. When teaching art history in…

The latest perceptions of writer-audience relationships have not been applied to what teachers actually do in the classroom. When the idea of audience is applied at all, it is often misapplied, resulting in classroom activities that fail to facilitate learning and many, in some cases, that force students to perform tasks so unreal that credibility…

Extended in-depth role-playing and simulation, used effectively in the social sciences for some time, is seen as being a particularly effective technique for the intermediate level foreign language class. This paper describes a teaching unit of six or seven weeks, developed for use in the third or fourth semester of college level German, which…

In order to develop a systematic procedure for the evaluation and revision of educational software for microcomputers, a study was undertaken by the Educational Products Information Exchange (EPIE) Institute and the Microcomputer Resource Center at Columbia University to define the criteria that are needed to evaluate instructional microcomputer…

This manual provides a series of forms and instruments and outlines the procedures used by St. Louis Community College in its annual evaluation of the performance of instructional resources faculty. First, general information is provided in lists of the performance indicators and other criteria upon which the assessments of teachers, counselors,…