Stresses the importance of careful planning prior to the beginning of an evaluation effort and discusses a number of basic questions that a community educator should consider in planning any evaluation program. (JG)

This report is based on the observations of the recent director/consultant of the Center for Evaluation and Policy Research (CEPR) at the University of Vermont concerning evaluation practices in educational research. The history of CEPR and descriptions of practices in managing the center, directing several research and evaluation projects, and…

The focus of the symposium was on an evaluation of judicial education in Alabama conducted by the University of Alabama Evaluation and Assessment Laboratory (EAL). The papers include: (1) "Design: From Qualitative Study to Grounded Questionnaire" (J. S. Rogers); (2) "Implementation: Conducting the Qualitative Study and the…

This document provides guidelines for preparing evaluation programs for scholastic improvement. The philosophy underlying assessment and accountability is discussed, with specific reference to the positive and negative aspects of assessment. The design of a curriculum evaluation model is presented, including goal identification, data gathering,…

If career education really encompasses all of education then it should mean life education, not merely education about careers. (SA)

An alternative interpretation of the concept of equal educational opportunity based on two notions: (1) the need to avoid using measures of performance/failure as yardsticks of equal educational opportunity; and (2) the importance of the context of learning and the need to develop opportunities for learning and schooling in many settings. (EH)

The article outlines in detail the events leading to the Open University's present policy of neither providing, financing, nor sponsoring preparatory courses. It also considers whether or not its methods of teaching and assessment are too traditionally academic. (Author/AG)

Ten questions to help school districts assess how well or how poorly their teaching/learning goals are being attained. (Author)

This article presents a preliminary estimate of the "loss" of investment involved in educating women for medicine. (Author/KE)

Following an examination of alternative means of providing evaluation services in the absence of additional resources, the Small Project Assessment Service (SPAS) is described. Two types of cooperative research endeavors had been considered--those involving outside (non-school district) organizations such as universities, and those involving…

This paper discusses a survey undertaken to determine conceptions of psychology held by college students in an introductory social science course. Twenty-nine students were queried at the beginning of the course regarding the open-ended question, "If Esso garages were to invite a psychologist to improve the efficiency of petrol pump attendants,…

Causal modeling is examined for its heuristic value by describing its use in an introductory course in educational evaluation, and presenting a student-developed model. Subjects included students in either master's programs in statistics or doctoral programs in administration and curriculum. Before preparing an evaluation plan and path analysis,…

The aim of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Supplementary Frame Assessment is to locate and assess samples of seventeen-year-olds no longer participating in the regular school curriculum. In this way a sample representative of the entire age group may be obtained for assessment purposes. Phase I of the study dealt with the…

This document contains the assessment materials developed for the Model Accountability System (MAS), a career education project conducted by the Mesa (Arizona) Unified School District. Primarily, the MAS was designed to identify terminal career education behaviors according to several themes, specify assessment items for each objective, and…