At one time the major problems faced by an evaluator involved the best way to collect, analyze, and report data. Today, an evaluator's major problems concern responses to the evaluation report by school superintendents, principals, teachers, unions, and parents' groups. An unwillingness to publicize the evaluation results; the failure to consider…

This book is based on the taped proceedings and papers presented at the National Development Conference on Forensics. Part I discusses the foundations of the conference. Part 2 discusses the conference recommendations concerning a definitional statement, future goals and roles, theory and practice, research and scholarship, and professional…

The author briefly reviews literature dealing with the origins of the accountability movement, with models and programs for its implementation, and with the unresolved philosophical and methodological controversies surrounding accountability. (Author/IRT)

This kit contains everything needed to explain, criticize and plan, simulate, and evaluate a management by objectives (MBO) program. The kit has been field tested in state agencies, schools, businesses, and volunteer organizations. Rather than present only the strengths of MBO, this program defines MBO, presents its strong points in discussing the…

This document suggests a number of ways of thinking about quality control in those undergraduate programs that depart from commonly accepted forms and objectives. Institutionalization and evolution of these new departures are required if our currently accepted model of mass undergraduate education is to be transformed into a more effective…

Both cognitive and affective components in interests, attitudes, values, and appreciations are identified as well as problems in selecting objectives for the affective domain. The suggestions offered on how to best assess feelings draw on a variety of measurement techniques. The possibilities and problems involved in assessing student achievement…

Guidelines for reviewing teacher centers are presented in this paper. A teacher center is defined as an operation which incorporates the following: a) formal shared decision-making with regard to policy formation, budget, personnel and program by those who are affected, whether they are teachers, students, teacher educators, or community members;…

The author states that "there is a sense of inevitability about the course on which higher education is set in America and that planners may be helpless to change this course; though it may, indeed probably will, be changed by the forces of society. But if it remains on the present course, what are the possible consequences?" What these…

Michigan's superintendent of public instruction is convinced that a state testing program can provide the kind of information educators need to improve instructional planning. (Author)

Among the factors preventing effective curriculum management are that schools do not state their missions in specific terms or utilize their resources, and neglect systematic use of feedback. (Author/MLF)

The rationale for values education is reviewed and it is suggested that the language of values education does not belong in education. The authors state that teaching is an activity that takes aggressive and direct action on students' opinions and beliefs, not for the sake of their values, but for their characters. (LBH)

Presents the results of the annual survey of The Association of Chairmen of Departments of Physiology (ACDP) membership. Questionnaire topics include academic positions, faculty statistics, budgets, salaries and graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows. (MA)

Curriculum decisions should be made with awareness of the gains already made, commitment to assessment of the conditions that exist and the work undone, sensitivity to the emerging needs of the students and the community, and with thorough knowledge of how change best occurs in schools. (Author/IRT)