Pennsylvania's Educational Quality Assessment (EQA) program is discussed in terms of its historical background, ACLU objections to its alleged infringements of individual rights, and reactions of students who have taken it. Journal is available from Ritter Hall, Fourth Floor, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa. 19122. (AV)

Notes that there is no set formula, no check list of items, no linear equation that will provide an accurate assessment of organizational capacity for research and development. The possible range of magnitude of predictive efficiency is very great. (Author/AM)

A professor of management looks at university management development programs and finds that, despite increasing enrollments in management seminars, both the organizations purchasing the educational services and the universities selling them are often dissatisfied. He offers suggestions for improving management development programs. (MF)

The use and problems associated with standardized tests are not only technical, but also involve philosophical and moral issues such as "what it is that we want education to be," and "what are the behaviors and goals of educators and learners that we are willing to encourage." (Author/AM)

Discusses data collection and presents data analysis of NAEP's (National Assessment of Educational Progress) career and occupational development (COD) assessment, designed to determine how knowledgeable young Americans are about the work of the world and how well developed their basic skills (needed to obtain almost any job) are. (SH) Aspect of…

The AGB Board-Mentor Service provides member boards with on-campus workshops to assess their organization and performance. The basic role is to serve as a catalyst to engage boards in discussions of the results of a self-study and matters of special concern. Names of the 32 board-mentors are listed. (LBH)

This study at Kansas State University explored how the different educational contexts provided by two alternate design studio structures might influence students' ultilization of environment/aging research. (LBH)

The present study was designed to assess the preschool's contribution to the social, physical, and cognitive development of children in a normal, upper-middle socioeconomic level community. (BD)

The following information is necessary for schools wishing to measure and manage equity: (1) expenditures broken down by cost center, with the cost centers designed to overlay selected equity objectives; (2) per-pupil costs; (3) achievement profiles; (4) longitudinal data on a small sample of students; and (5) attitude surveys. (PS)

Contends that state-by-state comparisons of National Assessment of Educational Progress test scores will lead to simplistic conclusions and an increase in teaching-to-the-test curriculums. (MLF)

Embedding samples of items designed for program evaluation in course exams improves student motivation and faculty acceptance of assessment procedures. Sources of information on learning are discussed including: course examinations, course-based observations, locally developed comprehensive examinations, and externally developed comprehensive…

Explores recent reports on the state of education and on the language education profession's response to recommendations for improving instruction and suggests that language educators unite to clarify for the profession and for others what is being done in foreign language education. (CB)

A teacher describes how she has incorporated oral assessment into her classroom. Having students comment on each other's work and extending classroom conversation are seen as ways to facilitate oral assessment. (PK)

Describes the spiral interactive program evaluation model, which is designed to evaluate vocational-technical education programs in secondary schools in Nigeria. Program evaluation is defined; utility oriented and process oriented models for evaluation are described; and internal and external evaluative factors and variables that define each…

Two approaches of statistical testing are critically reviewed. A new approach, which is a hybrid of the two, is proposed. The new approach requires the researcher to think about the two types of potential inferential errors and an explicit alternative hypothesis of interest. (VM)