A brief review of formative evaluation strategies highlights a number of problems. A model, incorporating an objective thematic and structural analysis technique, is proposed with the aim of removing some of the existing problems. (Editor)

Is the Certificate of Extended Education the real answer to the needs of "the new sixth"? Author writes on behalf of a group of English teachers who believe it offers a major opportunity for curriculum development. (Editor/RK)

By identifying evaluation activity in relation to one or more specified curriculum problems, it should be possible to make evaluation something other than an escape route from uncomfortable criticism or a mirror reflecting only those images that please ourselves. (Author)

Attempts to provide school practitioners with a short list of very general characteristics, most of a non-technical nature, which should exist in any good evaluation study and to show how they might be applied by school personnel to judge an evaluation study being planned or conducted in their system. (Author/RK)

An evaluation of Individual Education Programs (IEPs) for 41 children (ages 7-11) with Down Syndrome enrolled in public schools indicated that the learning of functional skills in natural settings was rarely addressed in the IEPs. No relationship was found between overall functionality and either reported intelligence test scores or age.…

To ensure that curriculum development staff are focusing on student needs, this article suggests a question matrix showing the holistic relationship in the planning, implementation, and outcomes processes and in five interrelated program components (curriculum design, instructional means, resources, staff development, and learning experience).…

Describes how art education in the 1940s and 1950s was influenced by national social and political issues. Elaborates on conceptions of good citizenship and the new nationalism and internationalism which were emphasized. Claims this curriculum model withheld from children knowledge of the complexities of art and society. (BSR)

Reviews rationales for unified arts programs which were integrated into the general curriculum of elementary and secondary schools in the last ten years. Examines the fundamental assumptions of these multi-art programs and concludes they have not been utilized as planned. Encourages art educators to press for further development of integrated art…

Examines the Primary Education Project (PEP) which is designed to integrate the separate subjects of geography, history, and civics into one class of "social studies." This study examines differences in classroom instruction between this integrated curriculum and the individual subject areas. Concludes PEP was successful but questions…

Reviews research on the Joint Council on Economic Education's (JCEE) K-12 Developmental Economic Education Program (DEEP). Claims that limitations of previous studies and JCEE's recent decision to expand further DEEP create the need for more comprehensive understanding of DEEP and economics instruction at the precollege level. (BSR)

Evaluates the Joint Council on Economic Education (JCEE) commitment to strengthening the Developmental Economic Education Program (DEEP). Suggests which future studies would be most valuable and which kinds of research tools and programs might be required to fulfill the objectives of DEEP. (BSR)

The current reform movement in American education is viewed in comparison to the mood of educators during the Sputnik period in the 1950s. One method of comparison described is a literature review of popular magazines published during the period October 1957 through October 1958. (CT)

The author calls for a deeper integration between curriculum and foundational studies. He examines the origin of curriculum specialists, the substitution of techniques and certification for the search for virtue and judgment in situational problems, and the use of teachers and students as agents of curriculum inquiry. (CT)

Disabled students (N=117) reading three passages were ranked by degree of implementation of a curriculum-based measurement and evaluation system. Comparison of top and bottom 27 percent revealed score differences on all passages, suggesting that a high degree of implementation of a technically adequate data system leads to greater achievement. (CL)

Author calls for a radical reappraisal of the nursery school curriculum. (Editor/RK)