Author examined international studies of achievement in science, reading comprehension, and literature. He credits them with providing new understanding of educational accomplishments in each country and of the reasons for differences among countries. (Editor/RK)

Considered the conflict of student and school goals and how to bring formal goals into closer congruence with individual goals. (Author/RK)

The present study was designed to gather data relevant to the role of stimulus features as determinants of kind of emotion and the issue of differential information needs. (Author)

The aim of the present study is to see whether children exposed to long daily traveling to and from school are hampered in their physical development. (Author)

Author points out some typical common problems encountered in evaluating projects and proposes some tentative solutions to them. (Editor/RK)

This article reports a comparative study of teacher acceptance of two kinds of testing reports that were generated for Form A of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills at the fourth-grade level. (Editor)

Considers the evaluation provision of the Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965. (RK)

This study was designed to test the following hypothesis in Alberta: the higher the socio-economic status the more complex the use of language. (Editor)

A basic assumption of this study is that there are generally agreed upon performance standards as evidenced by the use of adjudicators for evaluations at contests and festivals. An evaluation instrument was developed to enable raters to measure effectively those aspects of performance that have common standards of proficiency. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences between high school girl smokers and nonsmokers, age 14 to 18 years, on selected tests of physical fitness. (Author)

The inter-battery factor analysis model for predictive systems appears to offer a useful formalization of these systems and provides some guides for the development of the system. (Author)

Teachers, parents, and students were involved in the needs-assessment phase of educational evaluation with the use of measurable objects in mathematics. (Author)

Results of this study suggest that certain kinds of treatment differences may be better uncovered by viewing test data in a repeated measures format. (Author/MB)

Results of survey condutted by University of Birmingham School of Mathematics reveal the effect of the sex and social class of a student on his or her educational achievement and eventual career. (Author)

The variety of ways that Semantic Differential (a method of measuring concepts through the use of bipolar adjectives) can be used throughout a social studies unit. (MB)