This report, developed by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), is intended to provide the Congress of the United States, during its deliberation on the creation of a new Department of Education, with a range of options for dealing with science and technology educational issues. It consists of two chapters. The first chapter includes…

In this manual, students, parents and community members are advised of the ways in which they can influence the educational system. Legal rights of students and their parents are described and applied to a variety of situations (such as suspensions, ability grouping, dress codes, discrimination, student marriage and pregnancy, school records, the…

After identifying the components of a community college financial system as enrollment, costs, revenues and tuition, this paper addresses the need for a system dynamics analysis of a California community college district. This systems approach would assess the possible effects of alternative policies on the characteristic behavior modes of the…

Intended for those who are concerned with evaluation but do not have an extensive background, this textbook helps students, scientists, evaluators, and administrators conduct and interpret evaluations. It deals with evaluations in all social action programs--health, education, and welfare. The focus is on basic procedures, rather than on theory,…

This report sets out to describe the emergence of new school design concepts during 1968-1975 in Australia. The report draws heavily on Western Australian sources particularly in the historical perspective prior to the 1960s. However, where possible developments are covered in all states and the two territories. An attempt is made to describe what…

This paper describes a model for the evaluation of the graduates of the teacher education programs of Tennessee Technological University. The use of the model in program development and improvement for the preparation of teachers, and its application to a special group of 20 individuals teaching science in the middle school grades are also…

Alternative procedures for assessing college student educational progress and sources of additional information are presented. Traditionally, written tests have been used for assessing educational progress at the college level, but it is now common to think in broader terms of the specific developments and attainments that students are expected to…

Beginning in 1970, the Cincinnati Public Schools experienced a shift in emphasis from centralized evaluation to local school program development and evaluation. Three functional models currently operate to evaluate three programs: Title I, alternative integration, and disadvantaged students. Each is distinguished by the level of trust existing…

Although much has been written about educational evaluation, few guidelines exist for consumers--project directors, school administrators, curriculum developers, legislators, teachers, parents, and boards of education. Several cautions surface from a review of the literature. First, tests that are based on program objectives are most useful to…

This study was designed to determine the extent to which schools of health sciences offering at least a baccalaureate degree are involved in the application of instructional technology. A four page questionnaire was used to investigate the schools' involvement in curriculum revision, instructional design and development, media production and…

Educational assessment tools are used for accountability; selection and licensure, and to measure the effects of instruction for student diagnosis and treatment. Psychometric instruments currently in use are flawed in two ways: they attempt to rank people on fundamentally multidimensional traits, and the problem of the validity of these…

A number of organizational, personal and methodological characteristics have been identified through the literature which inhibit or can be used to facilitate the use of evaluation and testing information. Inhibitors of information usage include organizational characteristics such as loosely coupled and decentralized systems, personal…

The objectives of this project were to (1) develop a criterion-referenced test of clinical performance capable of evaluating skill mastery, (2) establish congruent validity, (3) establish degree of inter-rater agreement, (4) determine whether performance expectations were the same for challenge exam applicants as for course-enrolled students, (5)…

In an attempt to predict the future of composition instruction in college English departments, this paper first reviews the development of freshman English and the so-called writing crisis and then reflects on the ongoing argument over composition course content. The present state of the English department of a midwestern college is described in…

This generic model is intended to provide a rationale and conceptual basis for thinking about and understanding the institutionalization of environmental education. To achieve this purpose, the document: (1) broadly defines EE; (2) presents a systems view of formalized education; (3) presents a view of EE contextualized in the formal education…