This annual report contains five speeches presented at the International Council on Education for Teaching Conference in Sydney, Australia in August, 1970. Titles and authors of the speeches are 1) "New Developments in Education for the Seventies" by Seth Spaulding, 2) "The Uses and Abuses of Diversity in Teacher Education" by…

Results from an evaluation study of a new masters' program in social work are described. The paper focuses upon the interaction between program goals that are conceived in terms of (1) the need to train social work students in three methods of social work, and (2) the need to prepare students who could address the problems of disorganized urban…

This study tested the hypothesis that teacher involvement in curriculum evaluation facilitates curriculum implementation. Curriculum implementation is defined as a function of the elements(s) of a particular referent curriculum. A random sample of 24 teachers, eight taken from each of three grade levels, served as subjects(S's) for experimental…

This is the report of a committee appointed by the American Association of Chairmen of Medical School Departments of Pathology (AACMSDP), Inc. to assess the role and major objectives of pathology departments in the education of medical students. The report includes a summary of the overall project and findings, abstracts of the meeting and…

The adequacy and effectiveness of an institution of higher education depends on a complex of factors, such as physical facilities, teaching faculty, offered curricula, nature of the student population, and the nature of the community. One often overlooked source of opinion are the graduates themselves, that is perhaps one of the most significant…

This chapter of "The Best of the Best of ERIC" contains 16 annotations of documents and journal articles on curriculum planning and evaluation, all of which are indexed in the ERIC system. Materials on curriculum development and objectives, community involvement in curriculum planning, and other topics are annotated. (DS)

Describes the use of cluster analysis to aid in empirically validating the course objectives of an industrial training curriculum. Two findings emerged: the discovery of an important job activity missing from the curriculum and the identification of sizeable groups of workers with distinctly different training needs. (Author/RC)

The author shows that developments within curriculum have distinct analogues within various branches of the humanities and describes how an acquaintance with events in some of these branches may be most useful in a critical appraisal of the curriculum field itself. (Author/RM)

A checklist of teacher competencies that should be acquired for successfully teaching handicapped students is presented. (JD)

Argues that how curriculum evaluations are conducted is more important than who conducts them, and stresses the need to make evaluations more systematic, more public, and more sensitive to differences in data needs at the various levels of decision making inherent in groups. (Author/JG)

Sees school counselor as being in unique position to see total picture of school's curriculum and its effect on students and staff. Suggests, therefore, that counselors be involved in curriculum development and evaluation. Discusses issues relevant to curriculum development and evaluation. (NB)

Answers to nine questions will help school boards know if curriculum development is being carried out properly in their school systems. (MLF)

Reported are the results of an evaluation of an integrated medical school program in Australia. Students surveyed were first and third-year students. While a majority of both groups were positive about the program, third-year students were not as satisfied with the program as first-year students. (RH)

Stresses that the role of theory is to facilitate cognitive integration, which has a vertical dimension (abstract to concrete) and a horizontal one (across schools and substantive fields). The author emphasizes horizontal integration over upper-level vertical integration to help students communicate across specialities. (Author/DH)

Outlines how to develop and write an effective curriculum governance document to be used in creating and monitoring curriculum development. Includes specific steps to consider in developing the document. (MD)