This publication consists of materials that can be used to evaluate teacher inservice workshops in terms of participant reactions. An evaluation form is completed by workshop participants, and summary scores are tallied. The publication consists of (a) an introduction, (b) the participants' evaluation of inservice teacher workshops form, (c) tally…

This booklet is designed to render assistance to all educators engaged in planning in-service education sessions with their staff. Specifically, it offers a point of view on planning as a learnable activity and a reasonably complete how-to-do-it kit. The objectives of such an approach are to pinpoint specific planning difficulties associated with…

The paper is designed to help managers of mainstreamed programs set up intensive staff training courses on mainstreaming. A brief analytic survey of the literature is followed by a discussion of practical applications of mainstreaming (including philosophy, curriculum, support services, and evaluation). The remainder of the paper reviews…

The purpose of the research presented in this document is to classify, validate, and analyze the costs of inservice teacher education workshops in terms of measurable and effective benefits to students following teacher participation in inservice courses. The research design is divided into the following three phases: (a) list the claimed benefits…

Three evaluation packets which can serve as guidelines for evaluation models are illustrated in this document. These packages were designed originally for occupational educators, but editing can make these packets and evaluation forms applicable to any area in which secondary and post-secondary teachers attend an inservice workshop or training…

This workbook presents three evaluation exercises that can be used by workshop directors to plan, implement, and evaluate workshops. The first exercise is deemed most helpful when the workshop objectives are only half-formed. Exercise 2, for cases in which workshop participants have been identified, helps the workshop director ensure that the…

This document enables the would be evaluator to witness the evolution of an evaluation form through successive stages of development. Each stage of development is documented by examples and explanations. The subjects of the discussion are: participants' evaluation of inservice teacher workshops, observers' evaluation of participants at the…

This document is intended for persons responsible for supervising teachers in trade or technical programs, for persons monitoring programs in occupational areas, and for those interested in self-evaluation concepts. The document includes a pretest that serves as an aid for the clarification of values and tactics for local, onsite self-evaluation.…

This catalog, intended for inservice program directors, describes a large number of activities for evaluating the impact of teacher inservice workshops on learner gains. The first description explains how to provide an activity-by-activity evaluation measure that identifies objectives, time period, resources, personnel, and success of outcome. The…

This paper contains eight components and is modular in the sense that it can be taken as a whole or in part. The first section is a pretest which attempts to analyze some measurable dimensions of a master's degree. The second section is a short presentation which shows how education must stress the affective and attitude dimensions of learning.…

The objectives of these evaluations include assessment of six health occupations regional workshops and the field testing of new evaluation instruments. In addition to being evaluated by participants and by observers, each of these workshops used a preplanning assessment form to sample a small number of prospective participants for typical needs.…

This paper reports on the first of four phases of a training session, involving 26 occupational teachers, which proposed to devise guidelines, for local leadership. Leadership was conceived as the ability to teach others so that they could teach themselves in a minimum period of time. The local aspect of this leadership was interpreted to mean…

A step-by-step method for designing and improving evaluation methods is presented for educators who are in the position of evaluating an educational gathering of adults. This method is to insure that evaluation instruments are: (1) accurate enough to provide valid data; (2) short enough to be filled out by a large group of evaluators in a hurry to…

Fifty-one teachers with three or more years of teaching experience participated in an inservice workshop on the development of course content, setting of student performance objectives, and selection of instructional methods. The participants completed questionnaires and check lists which were contrasted with parallel instruments completed by 75…