*Program Evaluation; *Vocational Education IDENTIFIERS Basic English Skills Test

This guide is intended to assist individual bilins.ual vocational training projects improve their approach to program evaluation. The guide presents an overall framework to be used by local project staff and evaluators to establish the scope of evaluation and give direction in meeting local evaluation needs. The guide does not provide a "cookbook " approach to evaluation, but rather gives direction for planning, suggests evaluation questions around lich to structure a local evaluation, provides sample data-collection instruments for use at various project stages, and gives specific guidance for carrying out critical data-collection activities. Chapters address the following aspects of the evaluation: process and plans, evaluation framework., program environment, program participants, program outcomes, and presentation of findings. Appended materials include: a statistical summary report form for reported data to the federal government; information on the format, content, and administration of the Basic English Skills Test; and a review of language proficiency tests. (MSE) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document