In July 1989 the American Board of Emergency Medicine conducted a field test of the oral recertification examination process. Sixteen examiners and 25 examinees participated in the field test. The examination included 3 chart-stimulated recall and 3 simulated-patient encounter cases. (MLW)

Provides a rationale for why literacy assessment is in need of improvement. Presents guidelines for improving literacy assessment. Describes a model for implementing changes in literacy assessment. (MG)

Compares the National Council for Vocational Qualifications model for assessing skilled performance with traditional British approaches. Concludes that the model is rigid and inflexible and can lead to deskilling. (SK)

Contrasts tendencies of pedagogization in the private sector with tendencies of economization in adult education. Points to the discrepancy between the intensity and speed with which pedagogical knowledge has been assimilated and adapted by the private sector and the rather modest number of processes of professional recruitment. (DSK)

Examines three major questions about the evolution of Discipline-Based Art Education (DBAE) from 1988 to 1996: What factors affected the reformulation of DBAE in the Getty Regional Institute Grant program? What has DBAE become in Regional Institutes? and, What do findings reveal about the education process and the program evaluators? (DSK)

Reviews what is known about what assessment has accomplished in U.S. education, concluding that it has not brought about real reform. Calls for educational policy based more on deliberated interpretations of assessment, experience, and ideology, and notes the important role evaluation of assessment must play in policy deliberations. (Author/SLD)

Early childhood educators should take advantage of attention on assessment to design appropriate systems. Proper assessments should enable more reflective teaching, honor children's full range of development, and provide safeguards to children from unnecessary assessment or misuse of assessment data. Issues include what standards to measure, what…

Reports on the implementation of a four-year project exploring effective and alternative assessment items in a primary mathematics education course. Provides a rationale for using posters in preservice education and discusses the development of criteria for effective posters. Concludes with a practical recommendation for the implementation of…

Provides a discussion of classroom research theory and methods designed to introduce those unfamiliar with classroom research to its major issues. Describes Angelo and Cross's Classroom Assessment Techniques, providing guidelines for collecting information on classroom outcomes. Reviews current literature related to classroom research. (MAB)

The performance of 42 hearing-impaired children and 42 matched hearing peers was examined on the Category, Tactual Performance, and Trail Making tests of the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery for Older Children. The major finding was that performance of deaf students was similar to that of hearing controls. (SLD)

National Vocational Qualifications assessment methods have the potential to fragment and damage learning. Holistic approaches to competence such as those used in Australia are more congruent with the needs of professional nurses, midwives, and health visitors in Britain. (SK)

Uses the founding visions of three educational philosophers--Horace Mann, John Dewey, and Paulo Freire--to create an ideal conception of critical participatory citizenship to guide school practices. Asserts that schools must build the capacity for moral and political conflict into the very nature of citizenship. (Contains 41 references.) (VWC)

Considers whether information about outcomes can improve what and how things are done on campus, and whether improvements provide information that can help make important changes to strengthen programs and services. The University of Missouri-Columbia addressed these questions and this paper provides some of the answers they discovered.…

Reports on a research study into the assessment of practical work at the upper high school level in Ireland which involved the use of a visiting examiner. Indicates that the new model provided a reliable and valid assessment of a range of practical abilities. (Contains 20 references.) (Author/ASK)

Provides an assessment of international education as a discipline, and outlines the global security framework. Examines how this framework is reflected in the forms of analysis used by international educationists. Suggests how the central purpose of global security, namely ensuring human survival, could be adopted within international education to…