On behalf of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, the author reviews the Committee's recent efforts and discusses the needs for further work related to the "Standards for Evaluations of Educational Programs, Projects, and Materials." The Committee has developed a program to guide its work. The program addresses…

The certification procedure which is used by the American Institute for Design and Drafting applies to secondary, post-secondary, and collegiate programs offering occupational education for junior draftsmen, draftsmen, design draftsmen, and engineering designers. The major sections in this report outline: (1) eligibility requirements, (2)…

Direct observation of the classroom should be used to generate as well as verify hypotheses about classroom environment and activities. For example, a case study of one classroom (SP 002 697), which was compiled from field notes, discussions, and teacher's written comments, led to the concept of pupil-teacher "contracts" and to hypotheses about…

A rebuttal by the author to critiques made by Michael Apple (see EA 504 331) and Barbara Presseisen (see EA 504 332) of his original paper on the rationale and methodology of process'' curriculums (see EA 504 330). (EA)

New understanding of what is involved in curriculum will come from those scholars who can make the heuristic leap from the data they must know well to the ethical roots of their concern. (Author)

The author discusses a team project which is being done at University College, London. The team arrived at a design for their material by considering 3 distinct aspects of current work in English:1) recent developments in English teaching; 2) weakness in current practice; and 3) fundamental assumptions about language. (Author/MS)

Reports on the validation of a series of citizenship education/crime prevention lessons for grades K-5 in Texas. (SJL)

Professionals with specialized training are not the only ones capable of evaluation. Increasingly evident is the skillful use in curriculum evaluation of a variety of qualitative methods by interested people. (Author/MLF)

Editorial criticism goes beyond internal adherence to editorial and analytic rules to the conceptual comparison of ideas contained in curriculum materials. (Author)