EVALUATION IN RURAL COMMUNITY EDUCATION; THE STATE-OF-THE-ART

The study constitutes the first phase of a project entitled "Development and Testing Methodologies and Instruments for Evaluating Community Education Programs." This project will assess characteristics of specific communities and education programs in order to determine the optimum program for a given community. This particular report, which will be revised during the course of the project, is in three sections. The first section is an extensive overview of four major topics: the concept of community education, the history and examples of community education in the U.S., background and approaches to community education in LDC"s and concepts and methodologies of evaluation. The second section provides case studies of community education in LDC"s. In the last section, a composite of program evaluation variables and indicators is extracted from the literature, thus developing a data bank for use in future stages of the report. An extensive bibliography is appended.