Guidance Program Evaluation: A Follow-Up of Effectiveness and Value

Abstract

In 1968, the Division of Guidance and Testing, Ohio Department of Education, developed a series of instruments to evaluate secondary school guidance programs. The evaluation procedures and instruments have been widely used in schools throughout Ohio. Until this study, however, there were no data relating the effect the evaluations had on changes in existing guidance programs. Twenty Ohio schools that had completed the evaluation the previous year were studied. Of the 357 recommendations made to the evaluated schools, nearly one-third were fully implemented within one year of the evaluation, another one-third were in process of implementation, and the remaining one-third had not been acted on. Reasons for recommendations not being implemented and opinions concerning the values of the evaluation activities used are analyzed.