This three year project was designed to provide staff development to principals, vice principals and other school administration special education issues relating to the implementation of Public Law 94-142. In 1979, sixty-three administrators participated in a week long summer workshop, during which project staff and speakers from within the Division of Special Education presented topics such as: discussions on Public Law 94-142; due process in Special Education; Child Study Evaluation Team (CSET) procedures; models for staff development; availability of resources inside and outside the school district; and the use of the Special Education Program Checklist, an instrument to assist principals in observing and assessing special education classrooms in their schools. Pretests-posttest self-rating evaluations were conducted of the participants' perceptions of their knowledge acquisition about thirteen selected special education topics. Results showed mean post ratings increased on all thirteen items; these are illustrated in tabular form. Participants' skill in the use of the observation checklist could not be measured due to insufficient data. Appendix A contains the questionnaire distribued to obtain participants' reactions to the usefulness of the workshop. A major accomplishment of the project was the refinement and field testing of the Checklist. (Author/AEF)
