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Ringel, Dean; And Others – American School Board Journal, 1971
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Boards of Education, Educational Experiments
Download full textOffice of Economic Opportunity, Washington, DC. Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation. – 1972
This report describes briefly the experimental design and presents the basic contract provisions. The experiment results reveal that performance contracting is no more successful than traditional classroom methods in improving the reading and mathematics skills of poor children. Both control and experimental groups performed equally poorly in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Experiments, Evaluation Methods
Sigel, Efrem; Sobel, Myra – 1971
This report explores the evolutionary process of the concepts of accountability and performance contracting from their inception through mid 1970-71. Six major topics are discussed: (1) ideological, managerial, and pedagogical underpinnings, (2) definitions and history of the concepts, (3) five performance contracting projects, (4) the political…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Economics, Educational Experiments
Lessinger, Leon M. – 1970
One of the originators of performance contracting explains how school districts can use that concept to attack difficult educational problems and meet the increasing demand that schools be held accountable for their educational product. The author argues that what he calls "educational engineering" will guarantee a basic level of achievement in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Dropout Prevention, Educational Economics
Weiler, Daniel; And Others – 1974
The Education Voucher Demonstration is a large-scale educational and social intervention that began in the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District, San Jose, California, in September 1972. First funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity, it is now sponsored by the National Institute of Education. This technical appendix is the third of four…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Affective Measures, Costs
Dickinson, William E., Ed. – 1971
This report, the result of five NSBA workshops on performance contracting, provides guidelines to assist school boards in meeting public demands for accountability. Part I explains the broad concept of accountability, describes the mechanics of a performance contract, and outlines a model approach for "turnkeying" a successfully…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Boards of Education, Educational Experiments
Office of Economic Opportunity, Washington, DC. Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation. – 1972
This report describes the experimental design, presents the contract provisions, and provides conclusions and recommendations. The document is comprised of five chapters that discuss (1) the statistical analysis methods used, (2) the problems of using standardized tests in performance contracting, (3) the contractual procedures between OEO and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Experiments, Evaluation Methods
Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1972
This report reviews the plans of three of the experimental school sites -- Berkeley Unified School District, California; Franklin Pierce School District, Washington; and Minneapolis Public Schools. The Experimental Schools Program, an evolving program, is designed to encompass the newest educational ideas as well as to avoid administrative…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrative Organization, Community Involvement, Curriculum Design
Rapp, M. L.; Wuchitech, J. M. – 1973
The Education Voucher Demonstration, begun in Alum Rock in 1972, is a large-scale social intervention with a wide range of social, political, economic, and educational objectives. This document is one of three such papers describing the educational aspects of the demonstration program which involved six public schools, 22 "mini-school"…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Research, Continuous Progress Plan, Creative Art
