Testing, assessment, and evaluation, all based on measurement, are assuming increasingly important roles in American society. They are becoming a more vital force in the world of work, in education, and in the processes of determining the effectiveness of social institutions. Educational Testing Service (ETS) convened a conference for education…

While the agenda of the 1960's was one of expansion at maximum feasible speed, the by-words of the 1970's are accountability and its correlates: effectiveness, efficiency, and quality. In statewide university systems accountability is a formidable task. A major difficulty comes from the diversity of goals and disagreement or confusion over…

A fourth quarterly report completes one year of the Educational Policy Research Center's (EPRC) analysis and assessment of the Education Satellite Communication demonstration. Activities and accomplishments during the period April 11, 1975-July 10, 1975 are listed and described. The report also includes cost data from the Appalachian Educational…

This report of a study conducted by the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) reviews, interprets, and disseminates findings of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) assessments in citizenship and social studies. The study represents an investigation funded by the Education Commission of the States and coordinated by a…

This report represents part of a total effort to initiate better management techniques for state-local educational planning. It involves a three-year cycle of assessment in grades 3, 6, and 9, to include information from teachers and principals as well as students. Chapter 1 provides a comprehensive report of the entire assessment program. It…

This guide is designed to be used for accrediting junior colleges in Kansas and for periodic institutional self-evaluation. The standards delineated cover public community junior colleges, church-related two-year institutions, private junior colleges, and technical institutes. This guide cites the general state requirement for a given aspect of…

This publication is a report of an Environmental Education Conference sponsored by the Alliance for Environmental Education and Western Regional Environmental Education Council at Snowmass, Colorado. The purpose of the conference was to study the progress of environmental education throughout the nation, to report the major concerns, and to make…

This publication is a report of an Environmental Education Conference sponsored by the Alliance for Environmental Education and Western Regional Environmental Education Council at Snowmass, Colorado. The purpose of the conference was to study the progress of environmental education throughout the nation, to report the major concerns, and to make…

The Guidance and Counseling Task Force of the California State Department of Education was charged with the task of studying the pupil personnel services available to students in California schools and of developing a plan for improving and extending those services where needed. This document is the result of more than a year of study and direct…

A perspective of state assessment, state goal-setting, and state standards adoption is presented. Relationships among these three concepts are noted and the relationship of all three to a system orientation is explored. The recent history of national and state assessment is documented. Attention is given in this historical overview to the manner…

Last fall, in no less highbrow a publication than the Harvard Educational Review, two professors--W. Norton Grubb of Berkeley and Martin Lazerson of the University of British Columbia--fired a thunderous broadside at career education and vocational education. The editor's summary puts the matter succinctly. "Grubb and Lazerson concluded that the…

The "Trouble Shooting" Checklist (TSC) for Higher Educational Settings has been developed to assist educational change agents, faculty, and administrators concerned with change, in their assessment of organizational variables predictive of a department's potential for successfully adopting innovations. The higher educational based TSC is both…

The Advisory Committee on Academic Planning conducted a planning assessment of graduate studies in Ontario universities for administration, business, and management science. Given is the consultants' report and the comments by the discipline group and the individual universities. Comments by the Ontario Council on Graduate Studies are also…

While nothing new is expected and anything significant seems too dangerous, it is still necessary to examine critical problems in the field of curriculum and innovation. The problems and prospects of curriculum may be grouped according to management, structure, and purpose. Information together with an institutional willingness to get the greatest…

The affective domain defines levels of behavior that pertain to feelings, emotions, attitudes, and values. The affective domain is important in the educational process because the way a child feels about himself as a learner may have a greater impact on his future development than his mastery of a particular skill or set of skills. Because the…