A process for arriving at institutional agreement regarding the goals of general education is suggested, as are a process of generating conceptual definitions in key general education skill areas, a process for operationalizing these conceptual definitions, and procedures for gathering longitudinal general education data that may form a basis from…

The purpose of AB 3408 is 1) to create public dialogue and systematic accountability at the local level regarding the skills high school graduates should possess, and 2) to encourage schools to focus attention on students who have difficulty mastering reading, writing, or mathematics skills. The legislation requires all school districts…

In this report of the Panel for the Review of Laboratory and Center Operations to the director of the National Institute of Education, the results of site visits and reviews of long range plans of 17 research and development centers and regional educational laboratories are analyzed. Following a brief overview of the history of educational…

This is part of a series of modules intended to present guidelines to teachers for evaluation of secondary science programs. It contains the directions for use and the report form. (SA)

This is a condensed report of a study commissioned by the Minister's Advisory Committee on Student Achievement (MACOSA) to study student achievement in science at grades three, six, nine, and twelve in Alberta, Canada. Baseline information for future assessments and a summary of student achievement of curricular objectives were to be provided.…

A model of an evaluation process for a college level mathematics course using management procedures is described. It is suggested that by designing the evaluation process as part of a management procedure, data useful for making policy decisions will be generated and the success of the instructional process will be insured. The foundation of the…

Some attributes of policies for achieving equality of opportunity are discussed together with their rationales. The significance of inequality and the role of education are brought together to rehearse the crux of the issue and indicate why such importance has been attached to the debates and studies of equality of opportunity. Aspects of the…

This report on a survey of college of education graduates from the classes of 1975 to 1977 includes the following information: (1) current positions of graduates; (2) most valuable courses taken in college; (3) least valuable courses; (4) suggested changes in college of education program; (5) competencies graduates lacked in their first year of…

Tables illustrate the relationship between elementary and secondary teachers available for positions and actual jobs open to them in the year 1978. Prediction, based on previous surveys, is made for future opportunities for teachers through the year 1985. Nationwide population trends are analyzed as they affect future teaching opportunities. (JD)

The structure and foundations of educational evaluation activities are explained. Evaluation theories are divided into descriptive or empirical, and normative. Descriptive theory is defined as explaining phenomena, rather than being based on normative premises. It is referred to as educational evaluation analysis and is classified as a social…

Alternative techniques for analyzing student outcomes were investigated. Two traditional statistical methods (one-way analysis of variance and two-way analysis of variance) were compared with an innovative input-output analysis. The input-output analysis is a two-step analysis consisting of a regression analysis to determine the relationships…

This analysis seeks to characterize environmental education as an entity viewed from different perspectives. It discusses: (1) who is active in environmental education; (2) comparisons between formal and informal environmental education; (3) the normative model of environmental education and comparison of environmental education, as it exists,…

Intended to assist practitioners in vocational education in improving program planning and evaluation, this paper provides an overview of needs assessment, which is a method of acquiring evaluative data required by the Vocational Education Amendments of 1978 (P.L. 94-482). The first two sections discuss various definitions of educational needs…

Instructional management systems for use in monitoring student achievements in specified skill areas and the use of these data for compensatory education program evaluation are a relatively new phenomenon in the field of education. The replication of an instructional management system is reviewed in three settings: (1) a consortia of four…

Many instruments designed to assess reading comprehension reflect instructional tasks that have not clearly been shown to be a part of the process of comprehension. If the measurement instruments are to have construct validity, however, they must be created to reflect what we know about cognitive processing. Recent work in cognitive psychology has…