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Schneider, Barbara L. – 1979
A consortium of 39 schools, colleges, and departments of education along with representatives of the Office of Education convened to study the salient problems in secondary teacher education. Areas of interest included: the working cooperation between administrators and faculty; the development of new curricula despite declining enrollment; the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Curriculum Development, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods
Soley, Mary E. – 1982
The emergence and purpose of formative evaluation as a tool for curriculum developers is described. It is pointed out that formative evaluation seeks to establish the merit of instructional materials during their development, to modify and improve the design of instructional materials, and to establish their worth so they may be adapted for use in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Evaluation Methods, Feasibility Studies, Feedback
Jacques, Barbara; Haller, Charles – 1981
A feasibility study was conducted to determine if the Teacher Center concept can be a logical and productive method of serving staff development needs of Connecticut vocational educators. A questionnaire was distributed to 1150 vocational education teachers in state regional vocational technical schools, regional vocational agriculture centers,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Feasibility Studies, Needs Assessment, Postsecondary Education
Strand, Theresa – 1979
Funded by the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA), a television series on high school desegregation, "As we see it," was developed by the Chicago, Illinois public television station, WTTW-TV. The series was intended to improve understanding of social issues relating to desegregation among racially and ethnically diverse groups, and was developed with…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Desegregation Effects, Educational Television, Evaluation Methods
Fleming, Elyse; And Others – 1974
The intent of the evaluation studies reported here was two-fold: (1) to determine the promising practices of three alternative schools in Greater Cleveland, and (2) to determine which of those practices identified as promising would be feasible for incorporation into the public schools. Each substudy includes an overview, a description of the…
Descriptors: Dropout Programs, Educational Objectives, Educational Practices, Elementary Education
Bender, Evelyn – 1988
The American Library Association's Carroll Preston Baber Research Award supported this project on the use, impact and feasibility of a computer assisted writing facility located in the library of Stetson Middle School in Philadelphia, an inner city school with a population of minority, "at risk" students. The writing facility consisted…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Disadvantaged Youth, English Instruction, Feasibility Studies
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Youth Programs. – 1980
This volume contains four interim reports of the Career Intern Program (CIP) replication portion of the Alternative Education Demonstration operated by Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America and evaluated by the National Institute of Education. (The CIP is an alternative high school serving dropouts and students at a high risk of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Awareness, Career Education, Community Organizations
Baj, John; And Others – 1991
A project studied use of state unemployment insurance (UI) wage-record data for Program Year 1986 to assess the effectiveness of Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs. Eleven of 27 interested states were selected by ability to meet data requirements. These issues associated with the use of UI data as an assessment tool were explored:…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Database Design
National TAFE Clearinghouse, Adelaide (Australia). – 1984
This compilation of 137 document abstracts provides technical and further education (TAFE) teachers, counselors, researchers, and administrators with resumes of materials that have been accessed by the TAFE Clearinghouse. The following types of materials are included: research and technical reports, evaluation studies, curriculum materials, and…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Auto Mechanics