User evaluation of learning resource programs in Virginia community colleges

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between qualitative evaluation of community college learning resource programs, as measured by a questionnaire distributed to selected faculty and students at eighteen single-campus Virginia community colleges, and quantitative measures frequently used as comparative indicators of program quality. The questionnaire, in two almost identical versions, one for students and one for faculty, was developed from Evaluative Criteria (4th edition, 1969), published by the National Study of Secondary School Evaluation, and consisted of six groups of five questions, each group related to a single quantitative measure, plus one additional overall evaluation question.