The problem of educational evaluation, the various types of evaluation, and the different kinds of models of evaluation systems are discussed in some detail. The educational needs of the students, staff, community, and the Philadelphia Title I schools, as agreed by members of the evaluation team, are listed. A taxonomy of Title I evaluation is…

Based on a 54% response to a questionnaire sent to all accredited two-year colleges listed in the 1969 World Almanac, the following conclusions regarding economics education were made: (1) the mean number of economics courses offered is three; (2) the most commonly offered course is a "principles" course similar to that offered in…

The achievement of content and understandings of the scientific enterprise of students in the Interaction of Matter and Energy Program (IME) and conventional physical science classes was compared. The experimental group consisted of 372 pupils from 13 classes while the control group had 275 students from 12 classes. Students were pre- and…

Minicourse 1, an auto-instructional package based on the microteaching-video tape recorder process, instructs the teacher in specific teaching skills and directs him in self-evaluation of his own teaching. Field tests in Minicourse (MC) 1 (questioning skill at the elementary school level) indicated behaviorally significant changes in teachers and…

In the spring of 1969, a short computer course comprising three hours of lectures and two hours of working with a computer was offered at Hofstra University to 101 natural science students. A questionnaire, which was designed to assess the impact of the 5-hour course, was administered to the students before and after they took the course. This…

All nine articles in this book were contributed by members of the Association of Teachers of Management and have been published previously. Dr. Wilson presents a framework for viewing problems of company management development, highlighting the continuous search for high quality managers, aspirations of young managers, and the need for consensus…

This study investigated student points of view in their ratings of specific courses and instructors by analyzing student responses within each of three classes separately, and then sought to generalize the results further by additional analyses, with 300 students randomly selected from 402 classes in five colleges. Different points of view were…

Eighty first-grade students, randomly selected from eight elementary schools, participated in this study. Four of the schools were located within the city and four in the rural area surrounding the city. The assessment instrument was the Organisms Evaluation Supplement, designed to evaluate students' attitudes in science, students' perception of…

Pressure upon institutions of higher education to attract more students and to cut back on the number of courses offered has increased in recent years. A part of the problem is to determine which courses should continue to be offered and to better fit student interests to the course available. One solution to this problem, is the offering of…

Human Relations was a program offered to Grade 10 students at Churchill Secondary School during the 1971-72 school year in lieu of four courses. The emphasis of the program was on the development of students as people who were more aware of themselves, of other people, and of the environment. The class took part in a variety of activities during…

Two evaluative efforts sought to assess the educational impact of computer applications in the social science curriculum. Questionnaires were administered to groups of students: 1) who either had just finished a section of a Principles of Sociology course at Oberlin College which dealt with computer-based research techniques in the social…

This study evaluated through a mail questionnaire the relevancy of the home economics and related courses as perceived by a stratified proportionate random sampling of 297 home economics graduates of 1968 through 1972 from three Arizona universities. The home economics graduates appeared to find most of their courses relevant to the development of…

The purpose of the 1968-69 investigation was to determine the applicability of a curriculum evaluation model to investigate high school students' achievement in three physics courses (traditional physics, Physical Science Study Curriculum, and Harvard Project Physics). Three tests were used to measure student progress: The Dunning-Abeles Physics…

A multimedia course in economic analysis was developed and used in conjunction with the United States Naval Academy (See ED 043 790 and ED 043 791 for the final reports of the project evaluation and development model.) This report describes the preliminary findings from the analysis of data produced by the validation tryouts. Student achievement…

This pilot study was initiated with the assumption that present teacher education fails to prepare enrollees for carrying out classroom instructional responsibilities. Its purpose was to determine the effect of specific training of teachers upon a) their instructional philosophy and behavior and b) the reasons, as perceived by the graduate…