Analysis of variance methods were used to investigate the reliability of scores on open ended items in the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The study was designed to determine their stability over seven different scorers and time of scoring during a three-month interval. (Author/CTM) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in…

Practitioners in continuing medical education should evaluate the impact educational activities have on physical competence, physical performance, or patient health status. (CT)

This scheme for a core curriculum rejects central control over the precise body of knowledge taught or the teaching methods used but advocates some control over experiments in education and the early assessment of their results. (Author/SJL)

Reviews several specific ways in which office practice simulations can be measured and evaluated, including the salary theory; evaluation of ability to establish priorities and make decisions; evaluation of work produced; and publisher evaluations. (LRA)

Discussed is an exhaustive inquiry into the curriculum of British secondary schools. It concentrates on the four curriculum aspects of language, mathematics, science, and pupil personal and social development. (RE)

Reports results of a teacher in-service program that provided instruction in economics as part of the Unified Sciences and Mathematics for Elementary School Program. Findings from tests of teacher and student knowledge and attitudes toward economics indicated that many participants gained substantial benefits from program participation. (DB)

Based on a sample of students in 11 public high schools, the article explores the relationship between class racial composition and academic outcomes for Black students under conditions including degree of friendship with Whites and characteristics of Black and White students. Concludes that the impact of interracial contact on academic outcomes…

Reexamines data from studies of the impact of academic unions on college faculty compensation gains. Offers explanations for disparate results obtained in various earlier studies. (Author/DB)

Reviews case studies of students who were promoted regularly in public schools without having mastered basic skills required at each grade level. Questions whether schools would improve if students were permitted to sue for educational malpractice. Identifies basic rights of students, teachers, parents, and administrators with regard to education.…

Discusses a study which examined influences of teaching methods and classroom environment on motivation, attention, and concept attainment of high school social studies students. (Author/DB)

Poses eight hypotheses developed from educational change literature to explain why schools abandon innovative practices and materials in the social studies. Some explanations are that the innovation's major advocate is no longer present and that teachers had unrealistic expectations about how an innovation would perform. (Author/DB)

Introduces findings from an investigation of political education in schools and colleges in the United Kingdom. It focuses on describing and analyzing political learning processes, political socialization, political learning experiences in the classroom, and problems which beset political education programs. (DB)

Knowledge and attitudes of technical college students were compared after exposing them to drug education programs in three formats: lecture, mixed media, and an agency film program. Results of a questionnaire show format has little effect on knowledge or attitude. Recommendations are made for future drug information programs. (BEF)

Results of interviews indicate that government mandates have required administrators to gather data greater in scope and depth than previously required. But these data and the information they provide cannot be used because other circumstances such as declining enrollment and scarcity of resources have undercut the administrator's authority.…

Describes the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation/Kellogg Project, whose purposes were to identify the essential elements of non-traditional study programs; to develop a classification, guidelines, and evaluation procedures for such programs; and to propose a policy for more uniform approaches by accreditation commissions. Outlines project…