Meaningful program evaluation is essential to interagency collaboration for handicapped persons. A team approach to developing an evaluation strategy must take into account factors within four stages of the evaluation process: 1) focusing, 2) planning, 3) implementing the evaluation, and 4) disseminating results and assessing the evaluation…

Vocational education in the past has not met the needs of students with limited English proficiency (LEP), critical elements in evaluating vocational education for LEP students include job placement rate, staff competence and dedication, and program organization and management. Related issues for the future, including methodology considerations,…

The Delphi technique was used to ascertain the relative importance of evaluation standards for vocational/technical programs in Missouri. The rank ordering of the standards provides a framework for deriving the overall quality rating of programs and institutions. (SK)

Discusses the need to develop an appropriate pedagogy for cooperative education to integrate the educational outcomes from the work and classroom experience. Suggests that the model should structure, guide, and provide for the systematic evaluation of the learning resulting from the cooperative education assignment. (JOW)

Evidence shows that evaluation practice is limited to direct support within training: little action takes place with other organizational units. Evaluation must have a significant role in the overall human resource function of an organization and must be a part of the planning function. (JOW)

Describes the Ventura Restitution Project which is aimed at making juvenile offenders understand the ramifications of their behavior and making it clear that they have a direct responsibility for their actions. Journal available from National Office for Social Responsibility, 208 North Washington, Alexandria, VA 22314. (CT)

The best methods of using mass media to create desirable behavior changes in extension education clients can be documented by records of requests for information; continued availability of mass media time or space; voluntary testimonials of viewers or readers; and information provided by retailers within the mass media area. (CT)

A model for annual evaluations of a school system's gifted programs is presented. The evaluation should address objectives in five program goal areas: identification, curriculum, staff development, parent and community involvement, and the evaluation process itself. (DB)

A design for evaluation studies of educational programs should provide valid and defensible inferences. Goals of evaluation are the identity of major components of inferences and specific validity concerns. Design problems may be resolved by creatively utilizing features of specific evaluations in designing unique conditions that permit valid…

Responsible scientists/evaluators must be assertive contract negotiators who understand and respect the legitimate needs and obligations of all pertinent parties to the contract. Evaluators should not work under conditions that prevent them from providing an appropriately comprehensive and critical evaluation, nor that prevent useful secondary…

Examines the literature from the last six years on retirement preparation in private industry. Research in four areas is reviewed: need for retirement preparation; extent of current industry programs; evaluation of these efforts; and alternatives to existing corporate programs. (CT)

Discusses the nature of simulations in business education (how it differs from games and practice sets, purposes and disadvantages, and types of simulation) and the effectiveness of simulation in business education (evaluation, formal research). (CT)

Reports findings concerning (1) identification of inservice needs of teachers, (2) the effects of different styles of inservice programs, and (3) an evaluation of the impact of inservice programs. (Author/RH)

In his review of Frank Caro's article, "Leverage and Evaluation Effectiveness," the author challenges Caro's assertion that evaluations are weaker than they could be because evaluators are in weak organizational positions to demand methodological rigor or full program cooperation. Caro's model aligning evaluation with regulation is…

Robert Stake presents his views on responsive evaluation, naturalistic approaches to evaluation, the role of testing in evaluation, and the training of evaluators. (BW)