The primary prototypes and educational goals used to educate Boston, Massachusetts, public school children with special needs (mainstreamed children) were analyzed and a demographic profile was developed. The results indicated that the special needs of the school children were not in close proportion to their racial distribution. (Author/SEW)

Compares the educational productivity of the United States with that of Japan and explains how confusion of policies, lower standards, and demographic trends have contributed to this situation. States that, given the willpower, we can utilize research findings to increase our national achievement standards. (MLF)

A unified model of teaching and learning, representing a synthesis of internal and external forces influencing learning processes, diagrams interrelationships between the following processes: activator, situational evaluation, anticipated ends, stress, action, outcome, external evaluation, feedback, internal assessment, curiosity, and internal…

Seeking to strengthen secondary education to improve academic preparation for college, the EQuality Project identifies and explains basic academic competencies: reading, writing, speaking, listening, mathematics, reasoning, and studying. (PB)

Discusses the problems of introducing diagnostic assessment into Scottish secondary schools in the light of existing assessment policies, teachers' assessment skills, assessment practices, and in view of internal and external influences which produce sociological problems. Problems that the diagnostic assessment itself can produce are then…

A study on U.S. chemical education was started by a task force formed by the American Chemical Society's Committee on Chemical Education. The study will present findings to influence federal funding for science education and research/development in the government's 1985 budget. Discusses purposes of the study and initial task force activities. (JN)

Suggests that the aims and objectives of the British 16+ public examination in English are so watered-down as to be useless. (HOD)

Reviews ERIC documents considering the economic benefits of community colleges on their communities; the effects of college programs on the various individuals and communities served; and the effects of community college attendance on the careers, earnings, and educational attainment of students. Provides a bibliography of impact and follow-up…

Questions and suggested actions are presented for parents to use in evaluating school operations. Topics include school goals and objectives, teachers' training and effectiveness, and student satisfaction. (FG)

Florida legislation has mandated an upgrading in student academic proficiency through functional literacy testing as a prerequisite to the high school diploma and through testing of other minimum competencies. Emphasis on educational assessment has resulted in a recent focus on teacher competence and more vigorous entrance requirements for…

Progress is assessed within the following areas of geoscience education: undergraduate and graduate enrollments, continuing education activities, conferences, National Science Foundation programs, source- and textbook and other educational material publications, earth-science teaching at the precollege level, and marine education (geology of ocean…

Presents criteria used to identify the nation's best evaluated exemplary career education activities and provides a list of the seven programs reviewed by the Joint Dissemination Review Panel and judged to be exemplary. (MF)

Describes and evaluates a program, the Serowe Brigades, which has given many underprivileged high school students in Botswana, Africa basic education and training and has helped them understand the means of production in a developing nation. Concludes that the program has succeeded as a first step in extending technical training on a massive scale…

Discusses three major areas of research in science education which take place at the National Institute for Pedagogical Research (INRP), Paris, France. European cooperation, future prospects and a list of publications of the INRP are also presented. (HM)

Suggesting that, like the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in the United States, Britain's Assessment of Performance Unit is likely to evoke opposition, the author proposes a teacher-based assessment system as an alternative. (SJL) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Procedures (Evaluation).