Educational measurement is presented as integral to the process of entering into and guiding conversations in which teachers and students participate. A measurement model patterned on the playful, interactive back-and-forth motion of conversation could aid in overcoming problems in teacher-student interactions. According to H. G. Gadamer,…

Measuring the effects of computer-managed instruction (CMI) on the teaching of and student writing about literature involves more than having students write and then evaluating their performance. Measurement is made difficult by the fact that the computer technology used in instruction is in a state of flux. Variation of computer technology,…

This publication is designed to aid teachers, principals, district staff, and other educators in reading, interpreting and using the data from the October 1983 Florida Statewide Assessment. This guide is divided into three main sections: an introduction; a discussion of the forms used to report results, and suuggestions for interpretation and…

The implementation of a unified national system of non-degree courses in business administration, the Business Economic Council (BEC) courses, replaced the ordinary national diploma and certificate courses in business administration in British colleges in the 1970's. Widespread faculty concern that these new courses have not been providing…

The computational methodology illustrated in this chapter provides higher educational planners at the federal, state, and institutional level with several alternative procedures for calculating productivity measures. Illustrations show that better institutional productivity measures can be constructed from existing data with a multidimensional…

A study of undergraduate student attitudes toward student evaluation at the University of Melbourne, Australia, focused on purposes and form of assessment, relationship between attitudes and subject field, and between objections and poor academic performance. Findings showed students believe assessment should be more flexible and cover a larger…

The "responsive evaluation" approach does not provide strong proof that a program was a success or failure or even hard data for making good comparisons, but it often results in people understanding their program better. (Author/IRT)

Presents a model 33 item questionnaire which can be adapted by any community college to assess its commitment and skills as a community-based performance-oriented institution. The instrument is intended to be used in a series of structured interviews with a small sample from each area of the college and community. (NHM)

With budgets limiting counseling staffs and an increased need to retain students, a more effective method of providing services is needed. The objective is to bring paraprofessionals to the point where they can recruit, screen, select, evaluate, promote, train, supervise, and administer their own programs. (Author/PC)

If the college were a corporation the problem of the 1970's might be solved, first by doing a market research, then calling a sales meeting to assign goals which might include the recruitment of "x" number of foreign students. But the college is not a corporation. Foreign students may bring more problems than they solve. (Author)

Lack of an overall strategy for change, hostile political and social environment, and a mood of hesitancy to defend themselves, have contributed to the current problems of higher education. New directions for the future are proposed which include rational decision making based upon how the university fits the purposes and problems of the times.…

Considers the potential benefits and problems of using performance objectives to evaluate community education programs and discusses three different conceptual perspectives on the use of performance objectives. (JG)

Administrators of four university-based centers for community education present their views on the role of centers like theirs in the evaluation of local community education programs. (JG)

Briefly describes the processes and methods used to evaluate six different community education programs. (JG)

Speech delivered to a 1974 Society for College and University Planning workshop on the need for more useful techniques for evaluating educational programs in American postsecondary education. (JG)