Show 8 and facilities (3) leadership The writer selected the and (4) program criteria for evaluating two sources: (1) a from recreation programs mainly public schedule for the appraisal of community recreation which had been formulated after many years of research by the executives of the National Recreation Association These standards were of value because the investigation dealt with the same problems that confronted those executives However the schedule was rather extensive and complicated therefore it was directly applicable to the smaller communities that were surveyed in this thesis The scoring chart compiled by the National Committee dealt with cities having a population of 50000 or more in Utah there were only two cities having a population that large This made it necessary to obtain other rating scales (2) An evaluation scoring chart for public recreation Noble made a survey of by Orland W Noble proved valuable oublic recreational facilities in each community in Kern California The standards set plicable to this thesis County up by Noble were ap- combining the most appropriate and best points of the National Recreational Association's Standards and the By evaluation chart of Noble's study the criteria were set These criteria were then submitted to representative up leaders who were concerned with recreation and physical education for validation These criteria are described in |