Based on reviews of the final performance and evaluation reports of 81 career education projects funded by the U.S. Office of Education during 1976, this comprehensive report seeks to identify ways of making future evaluation efforts in this area more fruitful. The introduction consists of definitions of key terms and a clarification of the source of information on which this report is based. Part I is a discussion of common pitfalls in career education evaluation design, execution, and reporting. Part II presents several unique and/or high quality (according to the author(s)) evaluation strategies identified in reviewed reports. Part III, addressed specifically to project directors, concerns the effective utilization of contractual evaluation services. (Author/BM)