A new evaluation technique developed by the Life Office Management Association (LOMA) has developed an evaluation form for measuring and improving training effectiveness. (BP)

A discussion of the function of career education in our society. (HB)

To determine the effectiveness of the Astor Program, an early intervention program for children aged 4 years and above who show unusual evidence of academic ability, 28 Astor children and 24 control children equally qualified as gifted were compared. The children were tested with the Stanford-Binet Test, the Goodenough Draw-a-Man Test, and the…

The paper demonstrates that fee schedules have quite large cost-reducing effects, that utilization rates are responsive to the availability of physicians, and that non-whites use fewer Medicaid-financed services than whites. (Author)

The article discusses the professional and financial progress made by the 15 graduates of the Lummi Management Education Program. (NQ)

This manual briefly reviews the major guidelines for a Title I evaluation plan using the norm-referenced evaluation model, Model A-1. Designed to help local school district personnel responsible for Title I evaluation activities, the manual can be used as a quick check of present evaluation activities or as a planning guide for future activities.…

The third and final volume of a project designed to help North Carolina counties plan community based facilities for status offenders describes an approach to evaluating existing programs and proposed new ones. Instructions are given for collection of data on service resources through completion of worksheets specifying information on such topics…

A survey of 105 graduates of the Model Secondary School for the Deaf (MSSD) from 1971 to 1977 was conducted. Although the majority of the graduates were single, earlier classes tended to have greater numbers of married graduates than the more recent classes of 1976 and 1977. Approximately 70% have attended or are now attending postsecondary…

The purpose of this paper, one of three related documents, is to present hypotheses about the causes for the success of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. The fund's success is demonstrated by the following achievements, all discussed indepth: diversity among the fund's applicants and grantees, multidimensional projects,…

The case study reports the findings of systematic play training with a 7 year old autistic male who had never exhibited play behavior. The research procedure involved three phases: imitation training, training manipulative play, and motivation training. Training during the three phases was conducted three times per week for 7 1/2 months in a quiet…

BASIC PREMISE OF THIS REPORT IS THAT INSTRUCTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS MUST BE JUDGED FOR EACH PROGRAM ACCORDING TO ITS DEMONSTRATED MERITS. GENERAL AND SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS ARE LISTED FOR POTENTIAL PROGRAM USERS AND PUBLISHERS. SUPPLEMENTS CONTAIN INFORMATION ON PROGRAM MANUALS AND TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION. THIS REPORT WAS PREPARED BY THE JOINT…

Presented is a report on the effectiveness of a project designed to serve elementary grade learning disabled (LD) students in rural Burke County, North Dakota. A brief description of the project includes a listing of the five performance objectives and evaluation criteria, and expenditure statistics. Tables provide data on program effectiveness,…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO IDENTIFY THE CHARACTERISTICS WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO SUCCESSFUL SECONDARY SCHOOL INDEPENDENT STUDY PROGRAMS (ISPS). THE METHOD CHOSEN TO ACCOMPLISH THIS PURPOSE INVOLVED THREE STEPS--(1) THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE INDEPENDENT STUDY PROGRAM CHARACTERISTICS RECOMMENDED IN THE LITERATURE, (2) CASE STUDIES OF THREE HIGHLY…

During the school year 1963-64, the Canadian Teachers Federation (CTF) distributed several thousand programs among 200 or more teachers and their pupils. This project was undertaken because programed instruction deserved more widespread trial and evaluation than it had received in most Canadian schools. The purposes of the project were (1) to give…

To determine the status of the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) and the variety of activities that are carried on in the FBLA clubs which make up the Pennsylvania Chapter, questionnaires were sent to each chapter in the state, and interviews were held with one adviser and one student from each of the 16 regions in the state. Usable…