The Pennsylvania Plan for Educational Quality Assessment is discussed as to its beginnings, its goals, its implementation, and its future. The plan aids schoolmen of the State in assessing the quality of education their schools are providing in relation to 10 goals, which propose to encourage the students to develop self-understanding,…

The development, initial standardization and substantive data of the University Residence Environment Scale (URES) is presented. The URES is a true-false perceived environment scale composed of 10 subscales (e.g., affiliation, innovation) which discriminates among the 74 student residences in the current norm group. The URES has high internal…

The overall effectiveness of the educational experiences provided at three Middle Tennessee ABE workshops was determined. Two instruments were used to collect data from approximately 300 adult basic education personnel from all counties in Middle Tennessee; these instruments were a questionnaire and an evaluation scale. The participants' responses…

THE PLANNING PHASE OF A COOPERATIVE PROJECT OF THE QUEENS COLLEGE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT AND A DISADVANTAGED QUEENS PUBLIC SCHOOL WAS EVALUATED. THE GOALS OF THE PROJECT WERE TO PROVIDE (1) UNDERGRADUATE AND PRETENURE TEACHER TRAINING FOR POTENTIAL LEADERSHIP ROLES IN DISADVANTAGED SCHOOLS, (2) A PROTOTYPAL EDUCATIONAL FACILITY, AND (3) AN UPGRADED…

Starting with the second semester of the 1971-72 school year, the Phoenix Union High School System accepted a performance contract with Educators Service Incorporated of Edina, Minnesota. The contract enabled the district to implement a one-semester program, which was a multimedia course consisting of 36 thirty-minute videotaped sessions which…

This report highlights findings discussed during 1976 hearings. Included are: (1) Technology assessment (TA) is an evolving study strategy being widely adopted by the public and private sectors; (2) TA should fit the resources, timing and needs of decision-makers; (3) TA can provide warning of consequences unanticipated in traditional planning;…

This publication presents a brief overview and discussion of the Educational Leadership Appraisal (ELA) system, which was developed for use in Nova University's National Ed.D. Program by Education Research Corporation. ELA is a performance-based procedure for observing and assessing leadership behavior that evaluates an individual's potential for…

Presented is a shortened version of a computer printout which outlines remediation for a 14-year-old severely handicapped male based on results of the Adaptive Behavior Checklist (a tool for assessing social and daily living functioning). (CL)

Discussed are the processes involved in course evaluation to promote course improvement, some problems of the methodology employed, including the psychometric and illuminative methods, and implications for universities. (JMD)

Problems encountered in large-scale educational evaluations are discussed using the evaluation of the Emergency School Aid Act as an example. This extensive article focuses primarily on methodological issues. (JKS)

Open University students, adults in working life, are given several opportunities to mark stages in their progress during each course by graded assignments and final examination. One course teams' introduction of two-stage assignments is reported that includes an optional non-graded first stage. (Author/LBH)

At the University of Minnesota Affiliated Hospitals Residency Training Program in Family Practice and Community Health, internal investigators examined the entire affiliated program (the largest family practice residency program in the U.S.) from such aspects as a description of the residents to the administration of affiliated units. Methods and…

The issue of faculty development is examined with regard to important differences in the perceived needs of staff over the early years of their careers in a polytechnic. Less importance is attributed to short-term aims and greater to more fundamental issues over the longer term. Behavioral and attitudinal factors are discussed. (LBH)

This article describes the process used by a university committee which, in an effort to increase student enrollment, was given the task of studying what an introductory course in political science should include. (Author/RM)

The value of intensive commentary by subject expert teachers on Open University course materials is emphasized. The insights of someone who can alternate the role of reading as a student with that of reading as an expert and teacher are seen as significant in making substantial improvements to course material. (Author/LBH)