Thirty public school personnel from the immediate area of Southern Illinois University participated in a 3-week institute to train them to evaluate educational programs. The training emphasized writing appropriate objectives for and problems encountered in evaluation, as well as techniques of data collection and analysis. As part of the training, each participant designed an evaluation problem relevant to his school district. Three outstanding problem designs, a summary of the results of a participant-completed evaluation questionnaire, and two educational journal reprints prepared for and used in the institute conclude the report. (MLF)