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Download full textGray, Maryann Jacobi; And Others – 1993
The National Service (NS) program links financial assistance for education to community service. Four issues of primary concern arise as policymakers and program planners move from the program's concept to the fine points of its design and implementation: (1) achieving balance among the program's conflicting goals; (2) expanding educational…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizenship Responsibility, Evaluation Needs, Higher Education
Bishop, Ann P. – 1991
Federal legislation authorizing the creation of the National Research and Education Network (NREN)--i.e., the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 (P.L. 102-194)--was signed into law by the President in December 1991. This network is envisioned as an expansion and enhancement of the existing U.S. Internet, the collection of interconnected…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
Cuban, Larry – 1991
Test misuse is neither isolated nor recent. It is a problem that cannot be easily solved. While test misuse may be reduced or managed, it cannot be eliminated. Test misuse has cut across America's social, economic, and political institutions, including schools. The most flagrant abuse of a test is what happens to the results of the Scholastic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Educational History, Educational Policy
Kansas Association of School Boards, Topeka. – 1992
In 1991, the Kansas Association of School Boards began a program called Quest for Quality. The program is based on the belief that public schools must adjust to changes in children, families, communities, and economic and political conditions in the nation and the world. Quest for Quality also reaffirms the American school system's responsiveness…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
Carlson, James E. – 1993
In this article some results are presented relating to the dimensionality of instruments containing polytomously scored as well as dichotomously scored items, concentrating on the 1992 National Assessment of Educational Progress' (NAEP) mathematics and reading assessment data and several simulated datasets. The maximum likelihood factor analytic…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Correlation, Elementary Secondary Education, Factor Analysis
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1998
The Department of Labor (DOL) conducts several activities to foster Job Corps' employer and community linkages to ensure the appropriateness of its vocational training to local labor markets and its relevance to employer needs. However, a review by the General Accounting Office (GAO) determined that information reported by DOL on the percentage of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged
Duke, Chris; And Others – Adult Education and Development, 1990
This supplement to "Adult Education and Development," a journal for adult education in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, refers to and is intended as a companion volume to "Combatting Poverty through Adult Education: National Development Strategies" (Croom Helm 1985). In addition to an introductory chapter and a conclusion, this…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Comparative Education, Developing Nations
Bock, R. Darrell – 1991
The scoring method that will be applied in the current 12th-grade science assessment project of the National Science Foundation and the Office of Educational Research and Assessment is described. The method, "graded mark-point" scoring, is modeled after procedures developed by P. Tamir for use in the performance exercises of the Israeli…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Evaluators, Grade 12, Grading
National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (DOL/ETA), Washington, DC. – 1991
This report highlights the initiatives, activities, and accomplishments of the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (NOICC)/State Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (SOICC) Network during program year 1990--July 1, 1990-June 30, 1991. It begins with a description of NOICC and the NOICC/SOICC Network and the…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance, Career Information Systems
Roberts, Kenneth H. – 1988
This booklet covers the development of Unesco's General Information Program (PGI), which was created in 1977 to insure a coherent development of Unesco's work in the areas of scientific and technological information, documentation, libraries, and archives. A description of the history of the organization and its predecessors, the structure of the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Databases, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
Pope, Andrew M., Ed.; Tarlov, Alvin R., Ed. – 1991
This pamphlet reprints the preface, contents, executive summary, and 27 recommendations from an extensive report on disability prevention issued by the Committee on a National Agenda for the Prevention of Disabilities. The summary notes that disability is a social, public health, and moral issue in addition to a medical issue. It cites statistics…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Aging (Individuals), Chronic Illness, Developmental Disabilities
Wynne, Edward A., Ed. – 1988
This monograph is composed of papers from the first National Conference on School Recognition Programs. School recognition programs vary considerably, but they do acknowledge schools that perform well (winners) and have recognizable public relations value. Consequently, school recognition programs have substantial potential for educational…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
Hawaii State Dept. of Education, Honolulu. Office of the Superintendent. – 1989
This report presents a plan for an Educational Assessment and Accountability System for Hawaii. The purpose of this plan is to provide an analytical as well as a descriptive account of the condition of public education in Hawaii. It is meant to be a vehicle to provide the means by which educational outcomes can be examined in light of contextual…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Planning, Educational Policy
Barton, David; Hamilton, Mary E. – 1990
Influences upon trends in literacy research include national and international agendas, active networks, and public images of literacy. Five trends in literacy research can be discerned. The first trend is research that tries to determine the extent of difficulties with literacy and its causes. Another trend is a shift in views and definitions of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Developed Nations, Educational Development
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1983
Two papers on library and information activities in developing nations, particularly in India and other Asian countries, were presented at the 1983 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) conference. In "IFLA in Asia: A Review of the Work of the Regional Section for Asia," Edward Lim Huck Tee (Malaysia) describes the low…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Developing Nations, Information Services, International Organizations
