This report documents the Hawaii Writing Assessment, which was undertaken to identify the writing strengths and weaknesses of Hawaii's public school children in kindergarten through grade twelve and to provide a basis for improvement in curriculum and instruction. The two sections of the report contain an overview of the assessment effort and…

The Language Assessment Battery was administered as a pre- and post-test to 731 students (mostly Spanish-speaking) in bilingual programs in New Jersey. In all grades tested, results consistently showed that third-year bilingual students outscored first and second year students in English language skills. This supports the contention that bilingual…

Due to the recent Federal redefinition of "basic skills," large scale assessments of speaking and listening proficiencies will proliferate. In planning assessment procedures, educators must be sensitive not only to psychometric validity, but also to pedagogical validity: the effects of testing on curricular content and instructional strategies.…

This final report summarizes Year 11 quality check activities for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). A probability sample of 40 schools was selected for quality check purposes from all three age classes. One regular school was selected for each District Supervisor at each Age Class. Quality check activities were conducted in…

This is a review of James Coleman's 1981 report, "Public and Private Schools," which has stated that private high schools provide education superior to that provided by public high schools. The study is summarized and criticisms of Coleman's research and conclusions are offered in the following areas: (1) method of analysis; (2) use of…

Discussed are four different approaches to the evaluation of the implementation of innovative courses. The first approach is that of Alkin and his associates at UCLA. This group emphasized the need to collect information on the degree to which an innovative course is implemented for the purpose of taking corrective action to achieve full…

Reports of fourteen program descriptions and evaluations are presented. All but two were produced by the Department of Federal Evaluation Resource Services, a model state evaluation project. The projects varied in purpose; budget; grades served; and number of students, teachers, and administrators participating. Reports vary in detail from one to…

These materials are designed to be used as a tool to in-service school personnel who may wish to improve achievement levels on the mathematics objectives as measured by the Michigan Education Assessment Program (MEAP). Four areas of mathematics instruction (fractions, decimals, ratio and proportion, and percent) have been addressed in these…

Three different approaches to metaevaluation are described and shown to have been applied to the study of Project Follow Through. These approaches include evaluation of primary evaluations, integrative meta-analysis in which results from several primary evaluations are combined, and secondary analysis involving the independent reanalysis of the…

This document reports the activities of the Southeastern Teacher Corps Network's May 1979 conference on the validation of programs and the dissemination of information. Concerns of the meeting were: the establishment of procedures for program validation processes, the increased awareness of naturalistic data-gathering techniques for educational…

A Texas study surveyed a sample of senior-level students who were in vocational programs in the 1972-73 school year to (1) identify any gains or advantages from vocational education (other than job-placement) in an occupation related to that training and the salaries earned; (2) identify any unmet educational needs among former vocational students…

This document is the fourth volume in a set of five Career Education Measurement Handbooks intended to help local education personnel in measurement and evaluation. Divided into thirteen units, this handbook is designed to show how evaluation can help improve the accountability of career education programs. Each unit is written to stand alone, and…

A wide variety of questionnaires, rating scales, inventories, interviews, checklists, and guidelines suitable for use in examining procedures, progress, and outcomes of educational equity programs and projects are presented for use by project directors, educators, and researchers. The Sourcebook may also be used as a reference for: (1) locating…

The organization of data at the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is undergoing a significant transition from a system designed only for national assessment purposes to one designed both for assessment and a variety of academic research interests. The advent of NAEP public-use data files opens up many possibilities for those who…

During April and May, 1980, a comprehensive survey of special needs, as related to the delivery of vocational assessment services, was carried out in the Assabet and Blackstone Valley (MA) regional school districts. Information was collected through a systematic procedure and with the use of structured survey instrumentation as described. All data…