The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS), a private, nonprofit body, was established in 1987 to address the need for uniform teaching criteria and improved methods for gauging how well such standards are met. The NBPTS is comprised of 63 members who are teachers (the majority), school administrators, local board members,…

The results of a poll, conducted in an inner-city area in New Orleans, Louisiana, and designed to assess parent attitudes toward public education, is described in this report. The procedures used in determining the sample for this study included: (1) identification of all students attendinq the four feeder schools in the inner-city area; and (2)…

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), like most large national surveys, employs a complex stratified multistage unequal probability sample. The design provides a rigorous justification for extending survey results to the entire U.S. target population. Developments in the analysis of data from complex surveys which provide a…

The possibilities and problems in the use of within-group slopes of outcomes on inputs as indicators of substantive educational group effects are considered. Slopes are proposed as outcome measures which may reflect within-group processes in between-group analyses of multilevel data. Research on aptitude x treatment interactions, contextual…

Reuven Feuerstein's Learning Potential Assessment Device and Instrumental Enrichment (LPAD/IE) system presents a valid approach to assessment, which moves from constructs, to pedagogical theory, to instruments, and to remedial strategies. This system uses standardized tests in a standard approach, but not for the purpose of the quantification of…

A review of relevant research reveals the general characteristics of a test of oral communication performance, some specific characteristics of testing programs, and some directions that future performance testing should take. Characteristics of tests of oral communication performance are as follows: (1) students should be able to apply the skills…

The Elementary-Middle School (E-M) Development Project was conducted to provide comprehensive and scientific research on objectives, contents, and methods of education in Korea. It provided the basis for development of a new educational system through which major educational problems could be resolved. The project also provided opportunities to…

The Washington State Legislature requires that a sample of public school eleventh grade students be tested at least once every 4 years in the basic skills of reading, language arts and mathematics. A statewide assessment of eleventh grade achievement was made in 1981 using the California Achievement Test Form C. This report describes the…

Service learning has become a prominent feature of the K-16 educational landscape. Service learning is seen to enhance student outcomes, foster a more active citizenry, promote a "scholarship of engagement" among teachers and institutions, support a more equitable society, and reconnect K-16 schools with their local communities. Yet…

The needs assessment process must begin first with the determination of "what should be." The next process in needs assessment is the determination of "what is." The gaps or discrepancies between "what is" and "what should be" are the needs of the school or district. The results of this needs assessment must then be viewed in terms of the resource…

The changes that occurred in facility development, enrollments, school time available for industrial education, and the extent of special provincial grants to maintain the programs are documented in a status report on the long term effect of Canadian Federal legislation and aid. (AG)

Describes how one small school district developed performance objectives and wrote their own criterion-referenced reading tests to evaluate kindergarten and first grade children in a reading program supplimentally funded by the state. (TO)

This paper describes the process by which a television test was developed to measure elementary student competencies in science processes. The test was developed as an evaluative tool, related to the Pennsylvania Department of Education's Science for the Seventies project of televised science modules designed to supplement classroom science…

This transcript contains a report by David Rockefeller, Jr., Chairman of the Panel on the Arts, Education and Americans, and statements by persons involved in the arts either as entertainers, educators, or association directors. The two-year study on the role of arts in society particularly focusses on the public school curriculum. The central…