This is the third of three volumes designed to cover the problems and issues of developing and managing a formal assessment program. They also offer guidelines and illustrations of several of the more special aspects of assessment programs, such as administering tests or documenting their results. This volume contains summaries of technical…

Four evaluation studies were conducted of French as a second language program in grades 4, 5, and 6 in a large urban school district in western Canada. As a result of the 1972 study, which revealed major discrepancies between intended and observed outcomes, especially in oral skills, a major objectives-based curriculum was initiated. As part of…

This dissemination and diffusion handbook for the Florida State Department Division of Vocational Education is divided into ten chapters. Chapter 1 describes the functions of the dissemination and diffusion (D&D) section of the division of vocational education. Identifying the procedures and processes to be followed, chapter 2 focuses on the…

This is a report by the National Assessment of Educational Progress that contains selected results from the Third National Assessment of Science conducted in 76-77, with emphasis on relative performance changes in achievement from 1969 to 1977. The report describes the data base and methods of measuring changes of performance. It reports on the…

An analysis of statistics on teacher supply and demand in public schools, l977, indicates the following trends: (1) The supply of graduates completing prepartion to enter teaching is smaller than the number reported for l976. This is the fifth consecutive year that the numer completing preparation to enter teaching has decreased from the all-time…

This workbook, which accompanies An Evaluation Primer (TM 007 500) consists of 19 practical exercises for applying evaluation skills to hypothetical educational programs. Each chapter corresponds to a chapter in the primer, with answers keyed accordingly. Intended to provide an introduction to evaluation, the exercises include: identifying the…

In spring l977, a five-member team used the Shepard evaluation method to review the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP). The team's activities were the initial stage of a complete formative MEAP assessment. The Shepard evaluation method consists of a checklist which provides nearly 50 topics to investigate when conducting an evaluation…

Project P.A.V.E., serving senior high schools in Texas, focused on four areas crucial to the education of handicapped students: parental involvement, academic achievement, vocational programing, and extracurricular opportunities. This report describes the administrative arrangements of the program, and evaluates the results of the program for…

In February, 1976, the Education Policy Research Institute sponsored this conference on the use of tests in educational policy formation; these six papers were presented at that conference. In the first paper, Jenne K. Britell discusses four points that have historically characterized debates about testing; psychometric and technical issues;…

A system with ten components or stages for college faculty promotion, tenure, or assignment is presented as an aid to establishing criteria, defining purposes, and helping college departments meet the demands of accountability. The components are as follows: (1) at the start of the year, the department defines its needs, purposes, and priorities;…

This program combines five distinct parts of the teacher training program into a unified experience for undergraduate social studies students. It offers some unique opportunities for ongoing involvement of university students in the improvement of their own instruction. Three academic courses in conjunction with an optional reading methods course…

An outcomes orientation is examined as the dominant focus for formulating improvements in a college's planning, management, and evaluation (PME) system. Outcomes are seen as individual (produced by college personnel or students), program related, or institutional. An outcomes orientation to PME has the advantages of relating to the quality of…

Coordination of roles of academic departments, evaluation units, and institutional planning units is advocated as an effective approach to evaluating educational program and student performance outcomes. A model to effect this coordination is described in terms of purposes, characteristics, and structure. In the process model, four guideposts,…

The major and current findings of Project IMPACT are summarized in this report on the status of metric education at the elementary, secondary, inservice teacher, and preservice teacher levels. Each of the following major components in metric education are discussed: metric knowledge, measurement skill, estimation skill, attitudes toward…

The document presents multiple-choice exercises designed by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to measure the ability of students (ages 9 through 17) to recognize and describe various works of art. The objective is to provide classroom teachers easy access to released and tested art assessment materials. For each exercise,…