Intended for non-experts in evaluative techniques, this monograph presents suggestions and examples for assessing: (1) the child; (2) the classroom; and (3) the program or the school. Illustrative techniques of recordkeeping are presented. Methods of collecting data include documentation and formal records. Techniques to be used during evaluation…

Coastline Community College has developed a series of guides to assist adults who wish to obtain college credit or advanced standing in evaluating and verifying their non-college learning experiences. This guide lists the competency requirements of four courses within the General Office Practice program: Filing, Business Correspondence,…

Coastline Community College has developed a series of guides to assist adults who wish to obtain college credit or advanced standing in evaluating and verifying their non-college learning experiences. This guide lists the competency requirements of six courses in the Sales and Marketing Management program: Principles of Accounting, Salesmanship,…

This study determined whether item forms ( rules for constructing items related to a domain or set of tasks) would enable naive item writers to generate multiple-choice items at three taxonomic levels--knowledge, comprehension, and application. Students wrote 120 multiple-choice items from 20 item forms, corresponding to educational objectives…

The effectiveness of a model for determining a minimal cut-off score for criterion-referenced tests was examined. The model, based upon techniques presented originally by Nedelsky and by Angoff, was first used in conjunction with a multiple choice test developed for use in certifying school counselors in Georgia. A "knowledge estimation panel" was…

The study was designed to identify the present status of public knowledge concerning mental retardation, and to relate certain population and demographic characteristics to the data. Data were collected through field interviews and questionnaires with precoded probable responses. Descriptive responses are presented for the sample of 1,515 subjects…

The paper defines and classifies educology and examines its merit from the perspective of philosophy of science and its significance for the methodology of educational inquiry. The term educology implies a body of knowledge with scientific merit that is unique to the description and explanation of teaching-learning processes. Chapter I discusses…

Information about what very young children know about careers is reviewed in order to determine levels of knowledge and to trace the development of career awareness. Then the following career awareness curricula for very young children are described: public and commercial television, instructional television, commercial film, and classroom-based…

This technical report contains the released musical exercises used and the assessment data collected in a nationwide survey of music education conducted by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Nine-year-olds, 13-year-olds, 17-year-olds, and adults (ages 26-35) were asked questions designed to measure their attitudes toward music…

The specific role, function, and qualifications for six jobs in diagnostic radiologic technology (excluding physicians and health physicists) were delineated through task analyses. The levels are not job titles but can be described in terms of function. Among other duties, the Level I position provides nonspecialized assistance to radiologic…

This research report examines the interaction of persons and situations. It specifically identifies individual cognitive and motivational characteristics, preferences, and orientations of children which help to determine their relative benefit from different kinds of educational environments. The procedures and results of the main study are…

In a study to measure, compare, and evaluate differential effects of three methods of adult religious education, three experimental groups spent 320 minutes in four discussion meetings with a trained leader and an observer, the latter recording the group Interaction Process Analysis Profile (IPA). The treatment of group I (nine persons) was…

This study was to examine some of the factors related to the training of community 4-H club organizational leaders in the Northeastern Extension Supervisory District in North Carolina. Returns came from 292 (38%) of the 770 community 4-H club leaders who received questionnaires. Assuming a positive relation between knowledge level and leadership…

The average individual often knows very little. He has a sketchy knowledge about most topics, and knowledge in depth only about a very few. The factors that condition what and how much he knows are myriad. Of importance are time, education, income, sex, age, race, occupation, and where a man lives. Controlled, education tends to nullify the other…

A discussion providing a background sketch of theories and research specifically about, or pertaining to, the subject of knowledge utilization in the public education system in the United States is presented. The problem is defined as the question of how and why existing information comes to be considered "useful" by practitioners and how it is…