The author describes his system for confidentially assessing the social climate of a private school: the cost and procedures of the method and the data it generates for the school administrator. (SJL)

Chronicles the growth of oral history since 1948 and describes several classroom projects using the oral/aural technique. Projects focus on oral war accounts, an oral history of local businesses, and oral validity in history. (Author/DB)

Examines social science teaching in the Soviet Union and explains how it is related to technological advancement. Topics discussed include social progress, developments within the social sciences, political influences, teaching methods, and teacher characteristics. Journal availability: see SO 507 303. (DB)

Discusses a survey to determine cognitive consumer education knowledge among prospective secondary social studies teachers. Findings indicated that prospective teachers did not generally possess a high level of cognitive understanding and that teachers who had completed a consumer education course scored higher than those who had not. Journal…

Discusses a survey to investigate attitudes of parents and children in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. Copies of the surveys are included in the article, along with a cover letter, and several charts and graphs illustrating findings. (DB)

Explores the relationship between lifelong learning and university education. Maintains that universities must seek a new balance for their functions, devise entrance requirements which demand hard intellectual effort as a prerequisite for university study, reinforce close links between research and education, and cooperate but not interfere with…

The author takes a critical look at the development, organization, personnel, and objectives of the Assessment of Performance Unit of England's Department of Education and Science. (SJL)

This discussion of Pimlico School's self-assessment procedures focuses on methods used for reconciling student grades from mixed-ability and from ability-grouped classes into a valid picture of individual and schoolwide attainment. (SJL)

Presents the College Outcome Measurement Project which can (1) measure certain adult competencies achieved through a liberal education; (2) provide a means for program evaluation; and (3) assist individual students to identify relative strengths and weaknesses in their own array of adult functioning competences. (CT)

Six participants in the Third International Conference on the Teaching of English share their views on the contributions made during the conference. (HOD)

Describes the Alberta Interim Revised Social Studies Curriculum. The framework uses selected topics about which students make value judgments. The author contends that this approach for history instruction is laden with dangers and that the curriculum has deemphasized the historical process. (Author/KC)

Estimates costs and cost feasibility of using computer-assisted instruction (CAI) or compensatory education on the elementary and secondary school levels for disadvantaged children. Data were collected from an experiment sponsored in Los Angeles schools by the National Institute of Education. Journal available from Ballinger Publishing Company, 17…

Literature on assessment in Australian tertiary institutions during the past five years is examined in light of: who and what are assessed and in what way and for what purpose assessments are made. Conferences on assessment are noted and a 50-item bibliography is included. (LC)

Discusses historical events influencing the development of the British Columbia assessment program. Examines the program's goals, organization, and impact including a review of specific follow-up actions which have occurred at provincial and school district levels since the program's inception. Examines difficulties in the design and…

Discusses a study in which data regarding the relationship between grades and student evaluations of teacher performance were analyzed. Findings indicated that there exists a grade-evaluation tradeoff and that, consequently, administrators should take grade distributions into account when using teaching evaluations as a measure of faculty…