This document contains three sets of rough notes designed to help community education programs. These ideas are rough notes that are intended to spell out some of the problems and issues that confront any researcher tackling the new problem of community education programs. These ideas are addressed to State Educational Agencies (SEA) interested in…

To be useful, educational needs assessment data must be properly collected, analyzed, and prioritized. Educators must ask parents, citizens, school staff, and students about their views of school needs. Likert-type instruments can be used to collect data that can be easily tabulated to determine highest priority needs. Typical forms (presented in…

Provides eight guidelines for the effective design of questionnaires to be used in the assessment of training needs. Highlights include cost effectiveness; the use of surveys; front-end analysis; and examples for each guideline. (LRW)

This booklet discusses the definition and purpose of a comprehensive needs assessment, summarizes information on eight selected needs assessment models, and presents a step-by-step plan for school districts to follow in conducting a comprehensive needs assessment. The main part of the booklet consists of a detailed outline for conducting a school…

In order to obtain accurate and factual data, a survey instrument must be well constructed and a survey planned carefully and conducted under strict conditions. Of importance in planning a survey is a determination of previous and on-going research through an extensive literature review. In designing the survey, the researcher should aim at…

Questionnaires are prepared by many people who have not had specialized training and experience in survey techniques. This booklet was prepared to assist such nonspecialists in the preparation of efficient and useful questionnaires by providing a brief, readable guide for the development of questions for management decisions. This discussion is…

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…

The first 15 pages of the manual provide: (1) background information on the importance of adult education, the need for adult education statistics, the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED), and the scope of the term adult education; (2) the application of ISCED to adult education and the ISCED classifications (levels, fields,…

Maintains that more valid student evaluations of teacher performance on the college level will result if evaluation questionnaires reflect specific teaching situations and student cohorts. The Echo technique (which is based on reflecting evaluative comments in the student's own words) is suggested as a means of producing more valid evaluations.…

Explains the concept of environmental auditing as analogous to financial auditing, as manifested through the six guiding principles of environmental excellence, and as utilized by industrial and commercial interests. Presents a questionnaire-based method to introduce students to the techniques involved in environmental auditing. (seven references)…

This study is intended primarily to assist administrative officials and those responsible for administrative and management services in United Nations agencies, as well as similar officials in other international and regional organizations, both governmental and non-governmental, in the establishment and development of modern records management…

This handbook offers guidance to public broadcasting managers on computer acquisition and development activities. Based on a 1981 survey of planned and current computer uses conducted by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) Information Clearinghouse, computer systems in public radio and television broadcasting stations are listed by…

The basic qualities which questionnaires must have in order to serve best the purpose for which they are designed are emphasized. A description of the preliminary planning necessary to questionnaire construction, as well as the construction of the form itself, is provided. Various types of questionaire items and the advantages and disadvantages of…

This brief guide to interview training in survey research is designed for persons without previous training or experience in interviewing. Basic techniques of interviewing are presented in such a manner as to facilitate the training of persons with varying educational and socioeconomic backgrounds. Topics include: the interviewer's role in the…

This manual is designed to aid the user in measuring consumer satisfaction with vocational rehabilitation services. The manual contains materials which were used by the West Virginia Research and Training Center in a followup study. Step-by-step guidelines are provided for assessing the effectiveness of vocational rehabilitation services by…