The Improving Classroom Acoustics (ICA) special project was designed to determine if students' listening and learning behaviors improved as a result of an acoustical environment enhanced through the use of FM sound field classroom amplification. The 3-year project involved 2,054 students in 94 general education kindergarten, first-, and…

This paper discusses impact studies, an emerging evaluation and planning strategy evolving from required USDA reporting for extension services and agricultural experiment stations to a framework for evaluation/assessment planning. Impact studies can be useful for evaluating unit and individual performance, resource allocation, and planning. In…

This is the first report using the policies and procedures adopted by the Maryland Higher Education Commission on September 23, 2003. The report provides a list of academic degree programs that have been identified as low producing based on a single criterion of degree production. The programs are identified by the Maryland Higher Education…

This report summarizes the impact of federal programs on individual counselors, including suggestions on advocating to improve the programs' recognition of professional mental health counselors. These are all separate programs, formulated under their own laws, regulations, and agencies.

Because of a lack of locally worked-out theory, school methods are often the wrong ones for the specific situation, says this writer. (GB)

Presents administrative guidelines to achieve successful reading programs, citing the role of administrators as crucial. (RB)

Article deals with a method developed for generating or computing cost-benefits and cost-effectiveness data. (Author)

This article provides a general background of evaluation considerations and, as a model study, a summary of the procedures used to evaluate the Experienced Teacher Fellowship Program in Economic Education. It examines evaluation with respect to its purposes, its benefits, its definition, an appropriate model, and procedures. (Author)

Results reveal that many teachers who are often responsible for drug education in the public schools simply do not have an adequate understanding of the subject. (Authors)

Proposes a teacher evaluation scheme utilizing dimensions of teacher behavior that have been shown to be directly related to high levels of positive achievement and attitudes in students. (Author)

Comparison of demographic characteristics of persons enrolled in three programs indicate that the younger and unemployed are in therapeutic communities while the older, more often jailed persons are members of the methadone program. (Author)