This booklet is the third in a series of five published in connection with the Guam Assessment of Educational Needs. Collectively, the series represents an effort to identify and validate the most critical education needs for the Guam schools so that improved educational opportunities can be developed for Guam students. This document presents a…

This practical reference manual is intended for use in the evaluation of learner performance. The guidelines are presented in such a manner so as to make the evaluation process accessible and understandable to everybody involved in educational instruction and administration. A glossary of terminology is included to facilitate this process. The…

One of a series of papers on critical issues in vocational-technical education, this paper develops the thesis that vocational evaluation, a specialized division of vocational rehabilitation, has accrued a body of skills and techniques which might prove valuable to vocational educators. The four primary techniques (psychological testing, work…

Pennsylvania's Educational Quality Assessment Program provides each participating school with a building level report in which state percentiles are a prominent part. Multiple matrix sampling was being considered as a technique to reduce testing time. However, there was great concern that the error associated with estimating the school mean might…

The only essential criterion for a needs assessment at the school district level is that it be focused on the students. This criterion is integrated into the seven factors that compose a successful needs assessment: (1) prediction of skills needed in the future (what the schools should provide students five or ten years from the present); (2)…

As a conclusion to a cycle of English-curriculum development, this bulletin suggests methods and procedures for measuring pupil progress toward the achievement of goals emphasized in previous bulletins. Separate sections deal, in turn, with the place of assessment in the instructional program, types of assessment devices and techniques, assessment…

The ultimate test for success of a statewide assessment program is the extent to which the assessment data and information are used by the intended assessment audiences. The major premise adopted in this paper is that involvement of parents, teachers, and school administrators in the assessment process is the key to acceptance and subsequent use…

Reports on methods of school assessment of student achievement in Canada. It includes a brief description of the tests that are commonly used at the intermediate level and the ways in which they are used. (Author)

Compares the educator's perception of the quality of the broadcast graduate's training with the graduate's actual performance in the field as perceived by his employer and offers some suggestions for alleviating certain educational and employment problems. (MH)

Supports teacher organizations for improving education, teachers' and society's attitudes toward the educational system. (LS)

Describes a questionnaire that explored foreign agricultural engineering students' present positions in their home countries, and their opinions on their training in the United States. (MLH)

Since the passage of PL 94-142, it is especially important for counselors to know evaluation methods. This article presents a description of the usual sequence of a total assessment followed by a brief description of the role of each of the team members. A more technical overview of comprehensive diagnostic or prescriptive methods for the…

A description of the accreditation process, an analysis of developments that have affected accrediting agencies, and evidence of their productive response are provided in this introductory paper. Issues regarding evaluation of nontraditional education are also addressed. (Author/LBH)

Discussed in this commencement address delivered at Howard University, Washington, D.C., on June 6, 1930, is the problem of college and industrial education for Black Americans: that it did not give them the sound economic foundation which would make their survival in America certain or probable. (Author/EB)

Points out certain inadequacies in the conception and realization of methods, models, and theories that make critical assessment of English teaching virtually impossible. Sets the tone for a different pedagogical design, one that distinguishes between "knowing that" and "knowing how," and shows how English instructors might use it. (RL)