Project Schedule

Winter-Spring 1996 - Prefunding Activities
- Work with Advisory Council on preliminary list of Working Group candidates
- Make initial contact with candidates
- Preliminary planning for Work Session
Planning and Design Stage
- Summer 1996
  - Advisory Council selects and notifies Working Group members
  - Work Session Preparation
  - Begin developing WWW home page
  - Late summer one-week Working Group Work Session to outline unit writing topics and CCTP structure
  - Visit from Independent Evaluator
- Fall 1996
  - Advisory Council and Project Staff review and edit draft CCTP framework from Work Session
  - Formalize guidelines for unit writing
  - Identify and select Unit Editors/Writers
  - Expand and officially "open" Web home page
Development Stage
- Winter-Spring 1997
  - Unit Editors/Writers prepare units
  - Begin to solicit CCTP testers via WWW, email, and conference presentations
- Summer 1997
  - Clean up and convert units to World Wide Web pages
  - Package units as the prliminary WWW CCTP
  - Select formal CCTP Testers
  - Second visit from Independent Evaluator
Testing Stage
- Fall 1997
  - Working Group feedback on preliminary CCTP and final pretesting edits
  - Formal preliminary CCTP testing
  - Coninue to solicit informal testers of preliminary CCTP, evaluation via WWW home page
  - Begin processing feedback from formal and unofficial testing
Dissemination Stage
- Winter-Spring 1998
  - Edit prliminary CCTP on evaluations from testing stage
  - Complete final edits with Advisory Council and Working Group input.
  - Place final version on Web site (and master CD-ROM?)
  - Dissemination via Web and CD-ROM (and hardcopy?)
  - Independent Evaluator and project member summative evaluations

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Currently maintained by Violet Gray
Created: October 1, 1996. Last updated: November 12, 1996.
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