Reports on the Locally-Directed Evaluation Project which had the goal of improving educational offerings within local education agencies (LEA's) through more effective evaluation procedures, and systemizing several activities which LEA personnel conduct to aid in planning and decision-making. (TA)

Emphasis is placed on the managerial roles at the organizational level and in particular the role of a curriculum coordinator in planning, organizing and controlling the resources needed to develop, install, continuously evaluate and modify curriculum materials used by teachers of vocational and career education in local educational agencies.…

Purpose of the study was to determine whether there were differences between ninth grade students who expressed a career preference among three schools dissimilar in social, educational, economic or cultural backgrounds, and whether these same differences in the willingness to express a career preference appeared when the samples were divided on…

Students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds tend to rate the prestige of vocational occupations--the type into which they are being trained--higher than do students from middle and upper status backgrounds. (Author)

Data were analyzed to compare the academic performance of the "two-plus-two" industry technology student and the "continuous four-year" industry technology student. No significant difference was found. (TA)

An underlying principle of videotaped microsupervision is that of helping the learner develop skills in a safe environment. During the helping conference, the resource person may give specific suggestions, but he is more successful when he is able to assist the intern in making his own determinations. (AJ)

Remote supervision may be a partial solution for upgrading the supervision of vocational technical teachers. Remote audio with video feedback, field recording, and audio-phone and video-phone supervision are four of the seven methods described and evaluated in the article. (Author/AJ)

The findings of this study indicate that student evaluations of faculty have little validity in areas other than determining student-teacher relationships; vocational teacher students do not correlate either good organization or good teaching technique with their overall evaluations. (Author/AJ)

The limited supply of trade and technical secondary teachers might be improved if somehow additional successful workers could come to view (work in their fields and in teaching as) at least equally prestigious. (Author/AJ)

Program Evaluation and Review Techniques (PERT) is a network composed of events and activities, and a viable tool in developing a program for institutional research. The model contains three segments: internal and external research activities, and a system of data collection and retrieval. (Author/AJ)

Part one of the model has two components in needs assessment evaluation with information for management planning decisions. Part two has six sequenced components of input evaluation, which provide information for management organization decisions; process evaluation, for management control decisions; and output evaluation, for communication…

Examination of the prestige of the vocational education teacher occupation relative to that of college professor and public school teacher indicates that it is slightly less prestigious than they but more prestigious than most other occupations examined. (MS)