Tells how school boards can foster report card reform through the development of wise policy. (Author)

Article focuses on the learning of specific reading skills; discusses procedures for identifying individual needs, and ways to set up and keep individual pupil records; and cites sources (of). . .more detailed ideas." (Author)

The article describes three self-help programs designed to reduce disruption in secondary schools. (SW)

Responses of 522 middle-class parents to Torrance's Ideal Child Checklist were factor analyzed. Four dimensions were found to underly the 66 items that originally comprised the scale: Factor I, Confident, Aggressive, Well Adjusted; Factor II, Socially Virtuous; Factor III, Negativistic, Critical; and Factor IV, Creative-Intuitive. These dimensions…

Sources of information on free and low-cost software for computer assisted instruction include books, journals, clubs, agencies, and software exchanges. Evaluating educational software is discussed and a sample of a checklist is included. (JJD)

Offers a technique for use with films or filmstrips that transforms passive learning situations in content area classrooms into interactive ones. Contains a sample "reasoning guide." (FL)

Provides a checklist that allows identification of five major leadership styles, along the axes of concern for production and concern for people. (MLF)

Contains a check list to aid teachers in evaluating software used in computer-assisted instruction on microcomputers. The evaluation form contains three sections: program description, program evaluation, and overall evaluation. A brief description of a software evaluation program in use at the Granite School District in Utah is included. (JJD)

Presents rationale and guidelines for assessing audience needs before workshops are planned. An initial checklist of appropriate information to gather is presented, and strategies for obtaining information are discussed. (BK)

College trustees, it is suggested, should be alert to possible sources of support, willing to use their influence to establish priorities, support the necessary budget for development programs, and establish a development program or enhance and strengthen it. An institutional checklist for a fund raising audit is provided. (MLW)

Offers a performance appraisal process for client and consultant to shape the way they work together. The process includes recruitment and marketing/proposal development, selection and acceptance procedures, setting objectives and determining performance standards, and incorporation of a continuous performance review. Checklists for managing…

A model of teaching qualities is presented to provide teachers with a self-check aimed at improving their effectiveness. The activities and suggestions offered are designed to increase awareness of skills and characteristics of effective teachers. (JMF)

To provide objective evaluation of students' physical diaonosis skills, nonphysician patient instructors (PIs) with stable positive findings were trained by physicians to function in the multiple roles of patient, teacher, and evaluator. Medical students examine the PIs and are evaluated by them on their technique and diagnosis ability.…

An inventory of site opportunities for use by teachers as a planning aid can increase the utilization of the outdoors in educational experiences. The inventory should be a loose-leaf catalog organized in terms of site accessibility and human density, with a summary of each site. (SB)