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Peer reviewedDarling-Hammond, Linda – Elementary School Journal, 1986
Explores the role of teacher evaluation and suggests ways professionalism might be achieved through the evaluation process. Recommends that peer review might be an important means of defining and enforcing professional standards in teaching. (DR)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
A Comparison of Professional Examinations in Seven Fields: Implications for the Teaching Profession.
Peer reviewedLareau, Annette – Elementary School Journal, 1986
Acknowledges that the content and structure of competency examinations is open to debate. Reviews professional examinations in other fields of expertise such as accounting, law, and medicine, in an effort to establish the value of such examinations in the teaching profession. (DR)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Competence, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Tiemann, Philip W.; Markle, Susan M. – Performance and Instruction, 1984
Discusses the relationship between the problems involved in the creation of expert systems by knowledge engineers, i.e., experts at translating human abilities and knowledge into computer programs, and the major issues dealt with in the planning/analysis phases of instructional development. (MBR)
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Comparative Analysis, Computer Software, Content Analysis
Meyers, Barbara E. – Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, 1984
Overview of research techniques involved in gathering information on current products that can provide input into new product development highlights consumer purchase and use patterns. Comparison of mail questionnaires, telephone surveys, focus group sessions, and in-person interviews notes type of data, timing, relative costs, and advantages and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Consumer Economics, Feasibility Studies, Interviews
Download full textImmerwahr, John; Farkas, Steve – 1993
A study was done of Californians' attitudes toward public higher education and its future in comparison to attitudes across the nation. The study conducted eight focus groups in California and used those findings to generate hypotheses tested through two telephone surveys. A California survey was conducted with 832 residents 18 years of age or…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Comparative Analysis, Equal Education, Futures (of Society)
Duncan, Cynthia L. – Appalachia, 1986
Describes need to improve education in Kentucky's Fifth Congressional District which has the lowest percentage of high school graduates in the nation. Reports peoples' perceptions of educational problems; details community financial support; provides comparative statistics on educational attainment, math and reading mastery, dropouts,…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Comparative Analysis, Economic Climate, Educational Attainment
Edington, Everett D.; Koehler, Lyle – 1987
Current educational research efforts are examining rural/urban differences in achievement, appropriateness of rural/urban achievement measures, effects of parents and community on the attainment of rural students, and how well rural students succeed in higher education. To accurately assess the small, rural school's impact on students, rural-urban…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research
