The age of accountability in higher education is here, but there has been virtually no development in educational systems that has encompassed the task of producing a performance-based college campus. In order to accomplish the necessary goal of developing subsystems which together constitute a performance-based system, it is necessary that…

This document considers the image of schools as "a world apart" and the subsequent question, "What if we teach these young people the wrong thing?" The author discusses many of the questions and problems that exist in this separate world of schools: problems of administration, the innovative process itself, the open education…

The report was prepared under a grant made to investigate the possibilities of establishing an organized system of training for the trucking industry. It discusses attempts to disseminate information on training, learned through operation of an experimental and demonstration project in Pico Rivera, California. It discusses problems of compliance…

This study was designed to develop and establish a priority for goal statements that pertain to previously identified educational needs in Mississippi. A total of 1,297 opinionnaires were mailed to individuals classified into ten separate groups (school board members, superintendents, principals, teachers, students, parents, higher education…

Reviewed is the development of a set of performance objectives to provide for continuous educational progress in an early childhood education program for disadvantaged children in Paterson, New Jersey. Noted are sources of objectives and successful use of the objectives in the program. The objectives reported cover the following skill areas:…

The suggestions in this paper offer some alternatives to the traditional perfunctory "remedial" programs that open the doors to hundreds of students and then fail to followup on the students' progress. General objectives of a basic skills program for open-admissions inner-city students should include the following: (1) To help each student…

This book catalogues the free university/alternative school movement's exploration of ways education can be organized, directed, evaluated, and modified by its consumers. Emphasis is placed on the purpose of free universities, unlearning, course organizing, credit, the mechanics of organizing courses for credit, publicity, funding, bureaucracy,…

International studies are still underdeveloped on most college and university campuses, and present levels of activity are jeopardized by financial, organizational, and other problems. This book identifies the weaknesses of existing programs, points out where improvements are most needed, and recommends steps for carrying out changes. (MJM)

This report is an analysis of the special problems of colleges founded to offer blacks access to higher education when segregation was the law of the land. These colleges today are in a new awkward situation where they must compete with other colleges while still carrying burdens arising from the legacy of discrimination and poverty. The…

Issues that are basic to the present and future well being of 2-year colleges are discussed. These issues concern the need for 2-year colleges to rid themselves of their inferiority complex and to provide: broadened possibilities for curricular development; opportunity for helping people of all ages and background fulfill their educational needs;…

Presented is another document in the Technical Report series produced at the Science Education Center of the University of Iowa. This publication emphasizes curriculum evaluation. Material is presented in three sections: an introductory section in which the components of curriculum are identified and described; a second section in which these…

This paper examines some issues associated with emerging educational programs and training concepts and suggests some basic organizing principles for developing competency-based programs for the education of school leaders. The issues discussed include the following: (a) reliability of instructional systems in producing desired outcomes, (b)…

A questionnaire survey of students and alumni from a diverse set of colleges and universities across the country forms the data base for this report. With the results of the questionnaires administered to both alumni and upperclassmen, the author is able to classify institutions into 8 distinct sectors, to analyze how each sector differs from the…

Public education needs the results orientation and performance accountability mandated by a management system. Schools need a management system around which to lay plans to solve problems and reach ever higher levels of accomplishment in serving the needs of students. Management by objectives provides the school administrator with such a…

That teachers should be held accountable for conducting the best possible instructional processes, not for guaranteeing learning, is the view of the National Education Association (NEA). Because of the inadequate nature of tests of student achievement, the diverse nature of student populations, and the various conditions affecting learning, the…