This literature review outlines the assessment activities for competency based education (CBE) in five different disciplines in higher education, and discusses two approaches to assessment in programs leading to degrees in library science and media. Assessment efforts in CBE programs relating to library science and media are emphasized in order to…

The conference provided a forum where educators, members of public service organizations, and legislators could explore the need for and commitment to citizen education, set citizen education objectives, and generate ideas for creating a citizen education effort. Conference participants explored two major aspects of citizenship…

The Minister's Advisory Committee on Student Achievement (MACOSA) of Alberta, Canada studied student achievement in grades 3, 6, 9, and 12. Students were tested in reading, writing, mathematics, science, and social studies (grade 12 only). Tests were based upon cognitive objectives considered to be important to the curriculum, and results were to…

Some of the theoretical and methodological problems with current practices in evaluating instruction at the higher education level are reviewed. Controversy over the evaluation of instruction in higher education has resulted at least in part from inadequate instrumentation. The instruments for instructional rating now used include administrator…

CREATE (Criterion Referenced Education Associated to Evaluation) is a management and evaluation program developed by the Migrant Division of Region 14 Education Service Center. The evaluation plan, which is the basis for the total program, is tied directly to decision-making at all levels in the program. Utilizing a goal-oriented approach, the…

This report examines education in Spain during the years 1975 and 1976. The first part of the report evaluates the priority objectives of Spain's education system, examines the quality of teaching at all levels and discusses the system's teaching personnel, administrative, and financial aspects. The development of the school system is treated in…

A national study of the vocational education programs in 164 large cities was conducted to explore perceived needs; determine the priority of these needs; and compare the priorities in terms of city size, geographic location, and minority concentration. Data was collected through interviews, a mail survey, and a literature review. After the needs…

Nine groups of undergraduate students were formed on the basis of one-third splits of the distributions of their scores on an internality-externality measure and on an achievement motive measure. Academic performance was measured by obtaining grade point averages for all subjects. Analysis of variance showed that internal students made higher…

This document is a report on the activity of Texas Teacher Centers over a two-year period. The two-year study that this report is part of had as its focus assessing the activity of the teacher centers and the degree of awareness and use of concepts and products developed by the School-Based Teacher Educator Project. The stated goals of this…

The report summarizes questionnaire responses from 454 university department heads concerning information collected in the most recent self-study or review of their department. The responses included judgments about the importance of collecting each information element for (1) internal department use for porgram planning and improvements, (2)…

Distance education is used in this survey to cover the various forms of study at all levels that are not under the continuous, immediate supervision of teachers present with their students in lecture rooms or on the same premises, but which benefit, nevertheless, from the planning, guidance, and tuition of a tutorial organization. Familiar…

Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Physics, and Ecology assessment instruments were administered to approximately 1,800 nine year old and 1,800 seventeen year old Massachusetts students. The 9 year old students exceeded the performance of a national and international sampling of students. They equaled the performance of a sampling of students from…

The Massachusetts Statewide Educational Assessment in Consumer Education covers six content areas: borrowing, buying, investing, planning, protecting, and sharing. Nine year old and seventeen year old students were selected from various kinds of communities, six regions of the state, and from varying family occupational backgrounds. Both male and…

This anthology of articles is intended to encourage broad study in the field of bilingual education as a basis for the acquisition of knowledge which will enable practitioners to make intelligent decisions about the programs in which they participate. An overview is provided of the policy and legal factors which had an impact on the efforts to…

The results of a 1976 study, "Measures of Institutional Goal Achievement" (MIGA), based on a survey of 1,150 faculty, administrators, and trustees at 45 American colleges and universities are presented, and implications for the work of college planners and administrators are assessed. Respondents, answering questions about goal priorities and…