This booklet describes a course on speedbuilding in Spanish shorthand. Topics include a course description, course enrollment guidelines, course content, suggested procedures, strategies, and learning activities; evaluative instruments; and resources for students and teachers. An appendix contains additional information such as a Spanish business…

The advantages, feasibility and problems associated with a student-paced course were investigated, and a computer managed evaluation system compared to paper and pencil testing mode. The development of a self-paced course was facilitated by explicit behavior objectives, a variety of learning materials referenced to the objectives and a large pool…

This report describes a program of extension classes which enrolled 164 teachers, administrators, and counselors from Wisconsin schools for a University of Wisconsin graduate extension course. Professional advancement and assistance in developing career educational programs were the primary objectives of most of the enrollees. During the fall…

The objective of Work Unit SKYGUARD has been to facilitate the development of an improved Air Defense Officers Advanced Course (C-22) by the U.S. Army Air Defense School. Focus is on techniques for improving the completeness and relevance of the instructional objectives with respect to future job requirements. The job description procedures…

In order to improve the reading methods course at The University of Texas, a program was designed based on tutorial instruction. At first children were brought into the university classroom, one child for every two tutors. The university students (tutors) became directly involved in teaching reading and in being responsible for children's…

This paper presents a working definition of educational accountability, reasons for the accountability movement in education, events and major problems. Educational accountability is a process of setting goals, making available adequate resources to meet those goals, and conducting regular evaluation to determine if the goals are met. The reasons…

This report presents a plan for ongoing evaluation of the Creative Problem-Solving Curriculum for Undergraduates at UCLA. The curriculum is an important departure in the University's approach to the education of undergraduates. It provides an option for those students whose aims tend to be action-oriented. It is generally concerned with their…

An evaluation of the "Inside/Out" television series on health education includes a list of participating classrooms; summary statistics of children who watched each program by race and sex; introductory letters to teachers; format and instructions for training observers; observers' assessment of "Inside/Out"; teachers' evaluations of the programs…

As a part of the two-year process of revising the basic mathematics course at the Open University (Britain), an in-depth survey of students completing the first unit of the course was conducted. A sample of 120 students was divided into three groups of 40; group members received a questionnaire concerning concepts covered, a questionnaire about…

The purpose of this study was to determine if correlations among student ratings items designed to be diagnostic could be lowered through use of special instructions to raters. The authors argue that the lowering of inter-item correlations is indicative of a reduction of the halo effect which leads to greater item diagnosticity. The experimental…

A study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the "Classic Theatre" course, a series of televised plays and play previews, offered for credit by 275 two- and four-year colleges throughout the country. Criteria used in evaluation were the participant institutions' attitude toward and utilization of course materials and prescribed…

The development of the Arizona Course/Instructor Evaluation Questionnaire is described. Related research is presented demonstrating the reliability and validity of the Arizona Course/Instructor Evaluation Questionnaire. (Author/JKS)

Presented is an outline of a college course, "Education in American Society," that focused on teaching students rational decision-making skills while examining current issues in American Education. The outline is followed by student comments, reactions, and evaluations of the course. (JMD)

Discusses student evaluations of teacher performance in college level courses. Major problems with student evaluations are that they stress personality and speaking characteristics of the teacher, can be influenced by past negative teacher ratings, and lack relationship to content coverage and test performance. (Author/DB)

The purposes of this paper are threefold: first, to critically examine student ratings of college instructors' teaching effectiveness; second, to advance a number of pertinent criticisms of student and peer ratings; third, to discuss several possible alternative solutions to the problems delineated, with their advantages and disadvantages. (Author)