The Washington State Legislature requires that a sample of public school eleventh grade students be tested at least once every 4 years in the basic skills of reading, language arts and mathematics. A statewide assessment of eleventh grade achievement was made in 1981 using the California Achievement Test Form C. This report describes the…

Service learning has become a prominent feature of the K-16 educational landscape. Service learning is seen to enhance student outcomes, foster a more active citizenry, promote a "scholarship of engagement" among teachers and institutions, support a more equitable society, and reconnect K-16 schools with their local communities. Yet…

The needs assessment process must begin first with the determination of "what should be." The next process in needs assessment is the determination of "what is." The gaps or discrepancies between "what is" and "what should be" are the needs of the school or district. The results of this needs assessment must then be viewed in terms of the resource…

The changes that occurred in facility development, enrollments, school time available for industrial education, and the extent of special provincial grants to maintain the programs are documented in a status report on the long term effect of Canadian Federal legislation and aid. (AG)

Describes how one small school district developed performance objectives and wrote their own criterion-referenced reading tests to evaluate kindergarten and first grade children in a reading program supplimentally funded by the state. (TO)

This paper describes the process by which a television test was developed to measure elementary student competencies in science processes. The test was developed as an evaluative tool, related to the Pennsylvania Department of Education's Science for the Seventies project of televised science modules designed to supplement classroom science…

This transcript contains a report by David Rockefeller, Jr., Chairman of the Panel on the Arts, Education and Americans, and statements by persons involved in the arts either as entertainers, educators, or association directors. The two-year study on the role of arts in society particularly focusses on the public school curriculum. The central…

The author argues that, while substantial problems exist in the comprehensiveness, cost, and complexity of an evaluation system for performance assessment, the effort should be undertaken and problems attacked and solved as they arise. Three questions are investigated in describing the current state of performance assessment: (1) What are the…

Comments about the 11 papers presented at the June 1976 Pittsburgh conference on the theory and practice of beginning reading instruction are presented in this paper. In surveying these presentations, the paper discusses four content areas: particular theories about the reading process; problems in learning to read of poor, retarded, bilingual,…

Educational outputs are defined as the direct end products, events or conditions that result from facilitation and production processes within educational institutions. The conceptual framework for education outcomes developed by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) is explained. The basic elements of any…

A discussion of factors associated with evaluation of proposed alternative educational systems is presented in brief form. Emphasis is given to enumeration of critical characteristics serving as the basis of comparison, examination of alternative systems in terms of each characteristic, and determination based on the comparison as to whether the…

The author advocates greater flexibility in vocational education in order to allow every adolescent or adult to complete his training or to reeducate himself to cope with current and future conditions. (Author/DE)

Criticizing the existing system of using a single mark or grade to describe a person's accomplishments, the author also indicates where alternatives should possibly be implemented. In testing, a question should be judged solely upon performance against a set of previously specified criteria. No more pass marks per se. (EB)

Noting that the purpose of testing and test validity, reliability, norms, and usefulness should be primary considerations in choosing a reading test, this paper is intended to serve as a guide in test selection. The document provides a checklist for collecting the information necessary for selecting a test, and brief overviews of five reading…