Presents results of traditional evaluation methods applied to an alternative high school showing that alternative schools can withstand and should welcome evaluation processes. (DW)

Suggests that university physics teaching maintains rigorous depth but does not place enough emphasis on communication skills with nonphysicists. Discusses the problem of recruiting university graduates into service industries which have predominately awarded managerial positions to personnel with work experience rather than formal education. (MLH)

Concludes that virtually all the innovations of the past ten years in undergraduate physics instruction have had a common aim of involving students more actively in the learning process. Provides an overview of the major innovations, such as audio tutorial methods, self paced systems, programed textbooks, and computer assistance. (MLH)

Synthesizes the results of three previous task force efforts into a list of 25 tasks frequently needed in educational research and evaluation, and the skills and knowledge required to perform them. Tasks listed hold for the late 60's and early 70's. Developments subsequent to 1971 are not considered. (AM)

Three reactions to the paradox in question are given. Generally, some evaluation feedback is considered to hurt more than help, but more often than not evaluations can provide direction and guidance to educators. (AM)

Social work education on both the graduate and undergraduate levels is faced with the need for developing and expanding curricula in order to both provide technical assistance for continuing education programs and professional degree programs and to promote flexibility of programing. (Author/BP)

Information relative to what constitutes quality vocational programs is necessary as a basis for program evaluation. Moss (1968) has defined program evaluation as the process of attributing differences between actual and comparative outcomes to program characteristics under different conditions of student characteristics and intervening…

Based on 3rd, 6th, 8th, and 10th grade student performance on selected, critical language arts objectives, this assessment provides information in terms of objectives achieved and not achieved. Approximately 25 objectives are assessed; each had three to five assessment items. Other objectives were tested with items requiring written responses.…

The purpose of this handbook is to assist state, district, and school personnel in implementing the Assessment Component of the Foundation Program Assessment and Improvement System (FPAIS). The FPAIS is a comprehensive system for managing curriculum, intended to improve instruction for students. The Assessment Component includes the gathering and…

This resource package has been prepared as a means for distributing not only the results of the 1978 British Columbia Assessment of Written Expression but also to provide educators with clear, well-organized, classroom-ready materials which will assist them in teaching and evaluating the skills of written expression. It contains all of the test…

This study was designed to examine the effects of race and sex on performance on selected affective exercises from the first social studies assessment conducted in 1971-72 by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Compared were the performances of black males versus other males, black females versus other females, black males…

Two surveys of educational professionals in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington sought, first, to assemble criteria to test the validity and "exportability" of potentially exemplary educational programs and, second, to develop a measurement instrument to perform such validations. In each survey the respondents rated the acceptability…

The Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS) was administered to pupils in Grades 2 through 7, 9 and 11 during the 1979-80 school year as part of the Corvallis School District's testing program. Results of the CTBS, herein expressed as mean (average) percentile rank scores from each of the grades tested, are compared with those of prior years.…

The paper assesses an effort by the elementary school system of Hammond, Indiana, to develop and implement an educational program to improve children's attitudes toward animal life. Three levels of humane education treatment were introduced. The first level, introduced in seven schools, consisted of an intensive program involving humane education…

Building on the finding that respondent belief in the efficacy of surveys is perhaps more important in determining feelings of burden than interview length, some possible approaches available to the Federal Evaluation Contractor (FEC) to reduce respondent burden are identified. These approaches aim to generate acceptance at the various levels…