Superintendents and school boards must balance state and federal mandates, requirements of new legislation, and policy changes as they search for best practices in education that will result in increased student achievement. Pressure has increased, with an emphasis on high stakes testing and accountability since the implementation of the No Child…

A survey of staff and student attitudes toward selected innovative approaches to learning that had been in operation for four years was conducted. The population surveyed comprised the entire Bettendorf, Iowa, Middle School staff and student body. Questionnaires were developed to elicit pertinent staff and student opinions toward (a) space…

In 1970, the Office of Economic Opportunity tried to establish several voucher test sites to evaluate the voucher concept. Alum Rock Union School District, San Jose, California, was the only district in the country to agree to be a test site. In July 1973, responsibility for the Education Voucher Program was transferred to the National Institute…

This paper presents the results of an opinion poll given to a sample of parents, parent association board members, staff, and the principal at Cedar Park and Sand Point schools where the dual principalship experiment has been under way since September 1976. The data provided by this limited experiment do not justify a conclusion that the dual…

This study describes and evaluates an experimental program for reducing tardiness in a rural junior high school. The subject school housed approximately 1,500 seventh- and eighth-grade students. Under the "Lock Out Program," first-time tardy students were given a one-day work detail in the cafeteria for 15 minutes of their lunch period.…

This report evaluates an experimental trimester plan adopted by a Birmingham (Alabama) high school during the 1976-77 school year. The Birmingham trimester plan maintained the usual length school year, simply dividing it into three "mesters," rather than the traditional two. The plan also lengthened each class period to 85 minutes, so…

Describes the aims, design, and procedures of a project which provided experience with teleconferencing to isolated educators in the Northern Territory of Australia to enable them to judge its advantages, limitations, and potential for alleviating isolation and improving educational services. Issues identified by teachers and administrators are…

This paper evaluates an experimental humanities program combining English and Social Studies materials in which students discussed topics of social concern. Grade distributions, teacher complaints, planned improvements, and responses to a student questionnaire are examined. A copy of the questionnaire is included. (DLG)

This report marks the conclusion of a two-year study of SEE (School of Experiential Education), an alternative high school. It is a statement of the examining group's perceptions of SEE's second year of operation and of implications for SEE's future development. Because the evaluation group believes that a new program such as this takes four to…

Planning Program Budgeting Systems (PPBS) rest on the assumption that decision-making and resource allocation can be managed more efficiently when information about educational processes is collected uniformly and aggregated systematically. The School Planning Evaluation and Communication System (SPECS) conforms to this conception of PPBS as a…

This was developed for teachers in collaboration with the White Bear Lake Senior High School Evaluation Committee to evaluate the flexible modular schedule program. Part I contains 25 statements about the school and its programs with which the teachers may strongly or mildly agree or disagree. Part II contains a list of 17 areas of the school…

The Classroom on Wheels was an experimental program involving a series of trips by Junior High School Students to places of interest in the city. Randomly selected groups of students were tested before and after to evaluate the program's effectiveness in terms of pre-program objectives. These including helping students to increase their liking for…

DATA ON THE LASTING EFFECTIVENESS OF COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROGRAMS ARE AMBIGUOUS. EVALUATIONS HAVE BEEN HAMPERED BY A LACK OF LONGITUDINAL STUDIES AND CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS AND BY THE IMPRECISION OF THE STANDARD MEASURES. EFFECTIVE PROGRAMS, THOSE WHICH PRODUCE INCREASES IN LEARNING, SHOULD FEATURE (1) CURRICULUM ADAPTATION TO THE INDIVIDUAL…

The Charlton pilot project was one of a number of trials undertaken throughout Australia to bring educational resources to isolated children. In this project, Telecom Australia provided seven small Victorian Higher School Certificate (H.S.C.) schools with two first prototype experimental devices: firstly, a small group terminal and secondly,…

The research described is the result of an assessment in grades 4, 5, and 6 of a metric measurement pilot program for grades K-6 in Wheeling, Illinois. The development and administration of metric inventory and attitudinal instruments for teachers and students is described. The report presents four conclusions: (1) there was a significant growth…