A discussion of how consultants can investigate educational programs and evaluate them from a different perspective than those close to home. (Author/HB)

Program variables amenable to evaluation are listed in four categories: foundation variables, antecedent variables, instrumental variables, and consequential variables. (Author)

California's "external assessment" plan replaces the on-site visitation team model with a "constituent group" model intended to involve students, community members, professionals, and minority group members. (HMD)

The following methods of evaluation of inservice programs are very briefly discussed: a) behavioral objectives; b) diagnosis; c) learner outcomes; d) effects on teachers; e) classroom observation, and f) questionnaires following inservice activity. (HMD)

Outlines the structure of LEXtractor, describes and analyzes its cost and performance, and discusses some relevant issues in text editing. (Author)

Why proof is important to today's video user. (Author)

Paper presented at Symposium on the Application of Technology to Education, Washington, D.C., September 9-10, 1968.

On behalf of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, the author reviews the Committee's recent efforts and discusses the needs for further work related to the "Standards for Evaluations of Educational Programs, Projects, and Materials." The Committee has developed a program to guide its work. The program addresses…

This 23-item bibliography includes a glossary of key terms and summarizes major works on the use of program evaluation information. Summarized works include books, papers presented at professional meetings, and doctoral dissertations. The summaries are organized around a framework of themes: studies of evaluation utilization, practical discussions…

The monograph describes an approach to special education research that addresses both the promise of immediate payoff for decision makers inherent in program evaluation/validation, and the need to identify effective intervention variables of model programs that could be incorporated into other service settings. The approach, termed "program…

This is the first of a series of reports to be issued at irregular intervals to communicate the plans, progress, and findings of the evaluation of the Trainers of Teacher Trainers (TTT) Program. The first 12 pages of the report outline in three general categories the activities carried out to date: 1) visits to cluster meetings and individual…