The Maryland Alternative Accountability Pilot Project is described and analyzed. First, the conceptual framework on which the project was based is presented. This includes the background and circumstances that provided the impetus, project goals, resource allocation, and project management. Each of the following phases is then briefly discussed:…

A project was conducted in Illinois to determine what basic skills were needed in vocational education and how they should be taught. A multiple methods approach incorporating interviews, observations, surveys, and document analysis was employed to obtain data from the literature, and from practitioners, administrators, and experts in the fields…

To help California school board members fulfill their duties, this guidebook tells them how to begin evaluating district curriculum and instructional materials. The first chapter reviews school boards' legal responsibilities for educational program evaluation, under California state law, state board of education decrees, and legal interpretations.…

This is one of a series of reports summarizing the results of the second mathematics assessment conducted by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Nine, 13- and 17-year-olds were assessed during the 1977-78 school year. The assessment measured achievement in various content areas at four levels of cognitive processes: knowledge,…

This staff development module is part of one of three groups of career guidance modules developed, field-tested, and revised by a six-state consortium coordinated by the American Institutes for Research. This module is designed for guidance personnel who work in counseling and guidance at the secondary school level. The goal of this module is to…

The purpose of this survey is to present a state of the art review of economics education programs, practices, and objectives in junior and senior high schools throughout the United States. A representative sample of 500 schools was drawn across America's urban and rural schools and approximately 500 personal and 275 written interviews were…

Criticism of the field of teacher education should be constructive from those within the field. Given the rich background of experimentation, research, and substantive ideas in education, teacher educators should take the initiative for improving the profession rather than have legislative or policy mandates imposed upon them. Developments in the…

The Multnomah County Education Service District (MCESD) provides the following support services to the 12 school districts in its jurisdiction in the metropolitan Portland area: (1) curricular support in terms of developing measurable goals and objectives; (2) support for nationally and locally developed group tests; (3) development and field…

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) third writing assessment was administed to 9-, 13- and 17-year-old students in 1978-79. This volume contains the released exercises from this assessment. Part I summarizes objective and exercise development procedures, describes the different scoring procedures used in the writing assessments,…

This survey of recent research identifies major trends in American geographic education and evaluates some of the recent research. The document builds on two previous works on research in geographic education: "Research in Geographic Learning," Journal of Geography, 1972, and "Research Needs in Geographic Education, Suggestions and Possibilities,"…

A study was developed in an effort to generate a series of reports dealing with assessment, evaluation, reaction, and design of secondary education programs in the Canadian province of Ontario. The study objectives included: (1) defining educational goals commensurate with student ability; (2) preparing students for the future; (3) reassessing…

An oral language assessment test not only can determine the relative proficiency of a child in one or more languages and his or her language preference, but also can provide diagnostic information as to the child's strengths and weaknesses in each language. This information can serve as a guide to curriculum development and to prescriptive…

Noise-related training programs were reviewed in nine degree-granting institutions in seven states. These programs represent a sample, only, of the various programs available nationwide. The enrollment profile and average number of graduates by degree level for the past three years are given, as well as the apparent enrollment trends by degree…

A series of short courses was presented on various aspects of curriculum practice to enable teachers to review and reconsider established practices, to acquire knowledge of recent and impending developments, and to gain experience in the techniques involved. This collection of rewritten versions of lectures given at these classes is divided into…

This publication presents a six-year project (1972-78) funded by the National Science Foundation under the Undergraduate Pre-service Teacher Education Program (UPSTEP). The first three years of the project (Phase I) were concerned with a longitudinal study of a pilot group of prospective elementary teachers as they encountered science content and…