Drawing on his experience with the Indian Satellite Instructional TV Experiment, the author discusses the type of training program needed by those conducting formative evaluation in that context. (BD)

Pilot project SITE was undertaken to help shape a national TV system for India. Programing was to provide nonformal education in agriculture and health; formal education for primary school children and teachers; and by promoting Indian culture, to create a sense of political unity among the nation's disparate linguistic groups. (JEG)