Evaluation Concepts and Practices in Selected Distance Education Institutions.

This report contains, in addition to the introduction and preface, 13 papers written by individuals working in the field of evaluation who present the concepts and practices of evaluation at their own particular distance education institutions. The introduction (Schuemer) gives a short outline of the evaluation nomenclature and an overview of the contributors to the report. The papers are: "Orientation and Conceputalization of the Academic Quality Control Centre" (Alavarado et al.); "Evaluation at the FernUniversitat" (Bartels); "System Evaluation: Some Reflections on Current Tertiary Practices in Australia and Hong Kong" (Castro); "Evaluation at a Distance" (Ganor); "Evaluation at Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India" (Koul); "Assessment at Empire State College--Strategies and Methods Used in Evaluating Distance Education" (Lehmann, Granger); "Evaluation of Danish Distance Education at University Level" (Lorentsen); "Institutional Evaluation of the National Open University of Venezuela (U.N.A.)--A Proposal" (De Machado, Machado); "Evaluation in University Distance Education" (Moehle, Gerhardt); "Evaluation Concepts and Methods in Distance Education at Humboldt University (HUB)" (Nerlich); "Evaluation Concepts and Practices at NKI, Norway" (Rekkedal); "Evaluation in the Distance Courses Established by the Department of Education of 'La Sapienza' University (Rome)" (Vertecchi); and "Evaluation at the British Open University" (Woodley). (YLB)