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Download full textMullis, Ina V. S. – 1984
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) approach to developing assessments is described. NAEP will solicit views concerning assessment objectives and use the consensus approach. NAEP results can impact educational policy and school and classroom practices. Several policies have been adopted to provide improved information about…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Educational Policy
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1991
The final report of the congressionally-mandated Special Study Panel on Education Indicators (SSPEI) that was transmitted to Congress as required by the Hawkins-Stafford Education Amendments of 1988 is presented. This report is divided into two sections. Part I--"Education Counts"--presents the SSPEI's overall conception of how an…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement, Educational Indicators
Peer reviewedClement, Robert – Journal of Art and Design Education, 1994
Reports on the responses of headteachers and teachers in 570 primary schools in England and Wales to the introduction of the national curriculum in art. Finds that a significant majority of the respondents welcomed the national curriculum. (CFR)
Descriptors: Art Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
Peer reviewedMurphy, James – Oxford Review of Education, 1993
Considers the view, long fashionable in academic and political circles, that sees the expansion of higher education as benefiting the nation economically. Argues that higher education has expanded well beyond that threshold and would be regarded better as a form of consumption. (CFR)
Descriptors: Economic Change, Economic Development, Economic Factors, Educational Finance
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. Commission of Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications. – 1990
As requested by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Interagency Committee for Extramural Mathematics Programs (ICEMAP), this report updates the 1984 Report known as the "David Report." Specifically, the charge directed the committee to (1) update that report, describing the infrastructure and support for U.S. mathematical…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Educational Improvement, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
Berman, David M. – 1987
In structure and in function, the Japanese high school entrance examination--as exemplified by data from Chiba prefecture in 1986--survives as a prewar hierarchical cultural pattern. Postwar American occupation reforms offered "democratic education" in the form of a single-track system with 9 years of compulsory schooling; such a system,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Case Studies, Cultural Influences
Jordan, K. Forbis; McKeown, Mary P. – 1984
This paper examines fiscal implications of five 1983 reports that recommend reform of America's schools. Greater rigor in curriculum and textbook content is a common report theme, while three call for specific graduation requirements. Generally, reports recommend increasing time for key courses and requiring regular homework, achievement tests,…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Compensation (Remuneration), Educational Change, Educational Environment
