An ESEA Title III program to improve leadership capabilities of educators was conducted in both actual and model school settings during 1966-69. Participants included staff personnel, consultants, administrative and teaching personnel from cooperating school districts, and board of education members from a consortium school. This report discusses…

Educational testing and measurement on an international basis is viewed from the new quantitative perspective provided by the Comprehensive Achievement Monitoring (CAM) method. The technique of longitudinal testing through item sampling employed in CAM is seen as being of significant value in formulating a systematic measure of achievement across…

This is the report of the field trial and evaluation of an experimental computer-assisted guidance system designed for use by junior and senior high school students. This trial was designed to determine the system's applicability and feasibility in a secondary school setting. It sought also to obtain information on the outcome of its use, both in…

This paper discusses the Futures-Perspectives in American Education which is a method of educational planning which attempts to comprehensively and systematically speculate about long term possibilities in the educational domain and social environment. Part I is concerned with what it means to think about the future. Methods for thinking about…

A program involving two experimental fifth-grade groups, one of 15 boys, the other of 15 girls, used specifically developed instructional materials to capitalize on the different interests and characteristics of boys and girls and to determine the effect of sexual segregation on their achievement in language arts and science. A third experimental,…

Prior to the late fifties test usage enjoyed a degree of acceptance which diminished as test impartiality was increasingly questioned. Criticisms of testing are delineated, including the discrimination implicit in normative testing itself and the application of resulting test scores. This criticism of measurement techniques has directed attention…

The educational boom of the past two decades, prospects for the next 10 years, and the complex of policy issues facing member countries of the OECD are surveyed in this report. Topics discussed include record enrollments, educational efficiency, dropouts and the school-leaving age, new secondary school structures, implications for higher education…

A state system of about 20 demonstration centers was developed in Illinois to exhibit a variety of model programs for gifted children, ranging from kindergarten to high school. Subjects ranged from foreign language to dance and dramatics. Evaluation indicated low quality in too many centers. The centers performed best on the awareness function,…

The 1967-68 annual evaluation report for Washington's Title I (Elementary and Secondary Education Act) migrant program discusses innovative projects, objective and subjective evaluation, and program effectiveness (including new services provided for migrant children). Summaries and examples of effective classroom procedures are also presented. The…

The document contains the major topics discussed at Oregon State Department of Education workshop held in 1968. The conference was funded by Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I monies and was organized for school personnel involved in Title I activities. Included are articles on the educational needs of poor children, program planning,…

The Vocational Education Act of 1963 represented the first reconsideration of vocational education since 1917, and was the immediate product of a panel of consultants who found that vocational education was insensitive to changes in the labor market and to the needs of the various segments of the population. This report, an evaluation of that act,…

A mailed questionnaire survey of public high schools in California and Oregon was conducted to determine if differences exist in the length of tenure and the recruitment of personnel in schools stratified on the basis of adoption of four innovations: Teacher aides, team teaching, variation in class size, and variation in length of class period.…

The New Careers program sponsored by the University of Colorado Center for Urban Affairs has developed two innovative features: (1) Training is based on a process model of education, and (2) The program is committed to developing as trainers persons who are from a poverty or minority group background. The model provides for two programs. The…

Problems with defining the administrative organization of the New Haven school system led a new superintendent of that system to request aid from local industrial management experts. An organization expert was "loaned" to the school system by a local industry. The end result of 6 months of interviewing and analyzing was a document, called "The…

A survey of the use of television in education in Britain presents the medium not as a revolutionary approach to instruction, but rather as a new facility through which the teacher can better achieve traditional educational aims. The medium is analyzed according to its ability to magnify, distribute vision instantaneously, store visual material,…