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Download full textCornett, Lynn M. – 1985
The Chief State School Officers of the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) have adopted a recommendation calling for comparable state measures of educational progress through multiple indicators, including student achievement. Current state criterion-referenced testing programs provide information regarding specific student skills and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Testing, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment
Galligani, Dennis J. – 1984
This first volume of the University of California, Irvine, (UCI) Student Affirmative Action (SAA) Five-Year Plan provides an overview of the plan and the planning process, lists campus SAA goals and objectives, summarizes campus SAA activities, and describes the research and evaluation components of the plan. Topics include: the historical context…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Affirmative Action, College Admission
Cahalan, Margaret; And Others – 1983
Under the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-272), Congress outlined a case review system to assure that child welfare agencies monitor children under their care, that parental and child rights are protected, that agencies periodically report progress in implementing case plans, and that agencies work toward a permanent…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Adoption, Child Welfare, Children
Phillips, Don I. – 1983
This paper: (1) discusses why science and mathematics education are important; (2) outlines why a comprehensive improvement program is necessary; and (3) describes how North Carolina is attempting to improve science and mathematics education as related to teacher supply and quality, student enrollment and performance, curriculum and instructional…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment
Corwin, Luene; And Others – 1986
This report reviews the program evaluation approaches used at three member colleges of the National Postsecondary Alliance (NPA), a consortium of postsecondary schools intent on achieving excellence in occupational education. The first paper, "Introduction" by Luene Corwin, discusses the goals and major activities of the NPA. The second…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Colleges, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Criteria
Oregon State Dept. of Education, Salem. – 1985
In the spring of 1985, the Oregon Department of Education conducted an assessment of eighth graders' skills in writing, reading, and mathematics. The state reading test consisted of two parts: the first designed to measure students' inferential and evaluative reading comprehension and selected study skills, the second designed to measure students'…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Grade 8, Inferences, Junior High School Students
Habbel, David M. – 1985
The results of one faculty's effort to design a "state-of-the-art" undergraduate program in communication are presented in this paper. The program described in the paper was developed to reflect current theory, research, and practice in the context of an increasingly information- and communication-based society. The paper discusses the…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Higher Education
Cox, June; And Others – 1985
The text reports on findings of the Richardson study, a 4-year examination of current programing for gifted and talented students. An introductory chapter comments upon current attention to gifted education and summarizes reflections on home and school influences of MacArthur Fellows. Chapter 2 reviews results of a national survey of school…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Curriculum Development, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs
Dependents Schools (DOD), Washington, DC. – 1985
The guide is intended to provide information to administrators and regional and local case study committees on special education procedures within Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS). The manual addresses a step-by step approach from referral to the implementation of individualized education programs (IEP). The following topics are…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Dependents Schools, Disabilities, Due Process
Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council, PA. – 1987
The Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council tested four systems that could be used to provide supportive services to a minimum of 100 volunteer literacy tutors. The following four support systems were developed: a program providing for telephone consultation by a reading specialist, informal meetings of volunteer tutors, workshop class reunions, and a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Comparative Analysis
Werneken, Jane – 1980
This two-part booklet provides guidelines for students and agencies involved in Projects in Community Service, a transferable elective course offered under ten departments at Glendale Community College (Arizona). Part I offers guidelines to help students who wish to participate in volunteer programs while exploring possible careers and assisting…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Programs, Community Services, Experiential Learning
Farrow, Shirley – 1980
This description of the development of North Lake College's (NLC's) academic cooperative program begins by outlining the philosophy of cooperative education and discussing its objective of increasing educational growth through the integration of classroom theory and direct workplace involvement. Next, an overall rationale for cooperative education…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cooperative Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Cooperation
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1981
This report presents a description and the results of evaluation of Project Adelante at William H. Taft High School in New York City during 1980-81. The project, which was funded under Title VII of the Elementary Secondary Education Act, provided instruction in English as a Second Language, Spanish language skills, and bilingual instruction in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, English (Second Language), Hispanic Americans
Fowler, Clifford F. – 1981
Effectiveness of the Mobile Field Study Unit's work in environmental education in south-west Queensland during 1979-1980 was evaluated through records kept by the Unit and the Priority Country Area Program (PCAP) office, evaluations by teachers, interviews with teachers and educational administrators, and participant observation of the Unit. The…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Distance, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Science and Technology. – 1982
This document is a transcript of hearings held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (February 11, 1982), which focused on the "National Engineering and Science Manpower Act of 1982," H.R. 5254. The bill, introduced into Congress by Doug Walgren and Don Fuqua, would establish a fund to develop United States technical, engineering, and scientific…
Descriptors: College Science, Engineering Education, Engineers, Federal Aid
