This study was designed to assess the (score) construct-related validity of an instrument called the School-Wide Cultural Competence Observation Checklist (SCCOC). The instrument was developed to use as a tool in conducting culture audits as a means of assessing school-wide cultural competence, or how well a school's programs, policies, and…

This article explores a notion of "personalising learning" which puts the learner at the centre, supported by mobile technology and teacher mediation. It reports a small study in the Northern Territory of Australia, with indigenous students who were given mobile camera phones to capture aspects of their everyday lives and bring them into…

The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) is the principal association representing the technology leadership in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. This is SETDA's ninth annual report on select educational technology activities. This year's report includes…

This study investigated Self-Regulated Learning of 90 college students in an introductory educational psychology course at a large eastern university. Relationships among metacognition, motivational orientation, strategy use, and performance were examined. The study expanded on findings about The Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (MAI) (G. Schraw…

The state of the art of assessment is viewed in light of practical and realistic options. The classical terminologies of achievement, validity, reliability, internal and external assessment, prediction, and formative and summative evaluation, are often referred to in the address, with the realization that those presenting later papers would not be…

Five experts discuss accountability, including the role of the goals-measurement-evaluation-improvement cycle. (IRT)

The judicial evaluation approach adapts and modifies certain concepts from both jury trials and administrative hearings in the field of law and relies on the law's acceptance of human testimony to clarify and, subsequently, to judge complex events. (Author)

The Indiana University experience should not be taken as "proof" that the judicial evaluation approach works or does not. The evidence is that this type of adversary proceeding needs improvement, that it holds great promise, and that the next attempt should tell us more. (Author/IRT)

The future implications of vocational education are discussed for the areas of industrial needs; manpower projections; population growth; legislation policy; inventories of job opportunities; college, curriculum, and counseling; adult education; teacher education; industrial arts education; program objectives; the needs of students, society, and…

In introducing a new American Vocational Journal series, the author stresses the translation-feedback phase of follow-up research. (BP)

Includes a model four-stage plan for evaluating community education programs. (JG)

This issue of the Journal contains proceedings of the IAPPW's 60th Annual Conference. Highlights include discussions of classroom techniques, learning disabilities and child abuse. Annual Meeting, Atlantic City, New Jersey, September 1974. (Author/EK)

This paper helps researchers develop criteria for conducting surveys. Cost considerations frame the paper's suggestions. Specifically, the text advises that researchers consider the human and material resources needed, type of survey instrument, medium for conducting the survey (mail, telephone, personal interview, etc.), data analysis…

This study illustrates the means by which empirical data obtained from the Alabama Initial Certification Test (AICT) of 590 undergraduates at a state institution can be analyzed statistically to determine the institution's efficacy in teaching. The Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance procedure was selected as the test statistic to analyze…