Concommitant with changes in education, health care roles, and evaluation in recent years, a new six year combined B.S. and M.D. program was inititated at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Evaluation was integrated into the academic plan in order to assess student progress toward the overall goal of becoming a safe physician, as well as…

Evaluation is a vexed issue in North America at the moment. This paper discusses some of the factors that bear on evaluation procedures and practices in the College of Education of the University of Saskatchewan. It highlighted problems confronting instructors and offered four suggestions for their amelioration. (Editor/RK)

Presented in this article is a Rights Awareness Test (RAT) dealing with race issues and their coverage by the law. This test can be used in the classroom as a vehicle for discussion on contemporary human rights issues. (Author/EB)

Examines whether the degree of facilitating and debilitating test anxiety is different for students who volunteer for test anxiety desensitization workshops than it is for the general college population, whether test anxiety in urban community college students is correlated, and whether either or both of the AAT scales are predictive of student…

Two studies compared results for students from "modern" and "traditional" mathematical backgrounds on industrial selection tests employed by many industries for recruitment purposes. There were no significant differences in overall performance, nor did inclination toward or away from a technical career in industry seem to…

An art teacher uses some inexpensive instructional materials to teach his students awareness of the "built environment" and what its influence is on the natural environment. At the same time, he explores spatial relationships with his elementary class. (RK)

There are numerous examples of misinformation which are often taken for granted by individuals involved in the education of Indian children. Lists the author's perception of eight of the most prevalent general myths. (Author/RK)

The educational journal "Forum" today publishes a special number on "non-streaming". Here is a reprint from "Forum" on mathematics and mixed-ability grouping by a man who has been a Leicestershire head teacher/principal for the last twenty years. (Editor/RK)

An education reporter who took a leave of absence to observe competency-based education writes about his findings, which include both support and criticism of competency-based programs. (MF)

This research studied the relation between mastery of the words "and" and "or" and performance on the conjunctive and disjunctive tasks. A definition test was used to measure level of mastery of the linguistic terms and a traditional logical test to measure logical task performance. Results are related with ability to solve logical tasks.…

Data from the application of word reading, letter recognition, memory and classification tasks to preschool children suggest that word learning ability is more closely tied to cognitive development than is alphabet knowledge and that reading readiness assessment might profit from applying a word learning task. (MB)

Examines the benefits of frequent testing, some recent variations of frequent testing, and attempts to extract whatever generalizations appear to emerge from the evidence provided by the review of the studies. (Author/RK)

Suggests some practical testing skills needed by the classroom teacher. (Author/RK)

The Religious Education Outcomes Inventory includes two components: 1) the religious knowledge level reporting both individual and class profiles, and 2) the confidential attitude measure which links religious knowledge with attitudes and practices. The program's main use is to help local staffs monitor the effectiveness of their religious…

The responsibility for assessment in Australia has shifted from state education department and examining authorities to schools, teachers, and in some cases students. Variables operating in assessment procedures used by Australian schools and examination systems, and how the meaning of marks is communicated are described. National implications are…