If career education really encompasses all of education then it should mean life education, not merely education about careers. (SA)

An alternative interpretation of the concept of equal educational opportunity based on two notions: (1) the need to avoid using measures of performance/failure as yardsticks of equal educational opportunity; and (2) the importance of the context of learning and the need to develop opportunities for learning and schooling in many settings. (EH)

The article outlines in detail the events leading to the Open University's present policy of neither providing, financing, nor sponsoring preparatory courses. It also considers whether or not its methods of teaching and assessment are too traditionally academic. (Author/AG)

Ten questions to help school districts assess how well or how poorly their teaching/learning goals are being attained. (Author)

This article presents a preliminary estimate of the "loss" of investment involved in educating women for medicine. (Author/KE)

Following an examination of alternative means of providing evaluation services in the absence of additional resources, the Small Project Assessment Service (SPAS) is described. Two types of cooperative research endeavors had been considered--those involving outside (non-school district) organizations such as universities, and those involving…

This paper discusses a survey undertaken to determine conceptions of psychology held by college students in an introductory social science course. Twenty-nine students were queried at the beginning of the course regarding the open-ended question, "If Esso garages were to invite a psychologist to improve the efficiency of petrol pump attendants,…

Causal modeling is examined for its heuristic value by describing its use in an introductory course in educational evaluation, and presenting a student-developed model. Subjects included students in either master's programs in statistics or doctoral programs in administration and curriculum. Before preparing an evaluation plan and path analysis,…

The aim of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Supplementary Frame Assessment is to locate and assess samples of seventeen-year-olds no longer participating in the regular school curriculum. In this way a sample representative of the entire age group may be obtained for assessment purposes. Phase I of the study dealt with the…

This document contains the assessment materials developed for the Model Accountability System (MAS), a career education project conducted by the Mesa (Arizona) Unified School District. Primarily, the MAS was designed to identify terminal career education behaviors according to several themes, specify assessment items for each objective, and…

This collection of six papers on planning for effective foreign language education in the 1980s includes the following titles: (1) "Imperatives for the Eighties," by June K. Phillips; (2) "Profiles and Perspectives," by Pamela J. Myers; (3) "Second Language Experiences for Everyone," by Carol A. Herron; (4) "Special Curricula for Special Needs,"…

The following reports on the status of and prospects for foreign language teaching in the United States are included: (1) "Present Status of Foreign Language Teaching: A Northeast Conference Survey" by Peter A. Eddy; (2) "Toward an Articulated Curriculum" by Robert C. Lafayette; (3) "Competence in a Foreign Language: A Valuable Adjunct Skill in…

Presented are released science exercises from the National Assessment of Educational Progress in a loose-leaf format. Each exercise is followed by a documentation page that describes the objective being measured, mode of administration, age groups assessed, type of scoring, and national result. (CS) Primary type of information provided by report:…

The potential of multidisciplinary teams to control for possible errors in diagnosis, classification, and placement and to provide a vehicle for ensuring effective outcomes of diagnostic practices is illustrated. The present functions of the school-based multidisciplinary team (also called, for example, assessment team, child study team, placement…

Prepared for use with Research for Better Schools' career education programs, this guide is designed to assist in the selection of instruments which measure program goals. The guide provides descriptions of ten instruments: (1) student demographic data questionnaire, (2) career maturity inventory, (3) assessment of career development, (4)…