Curriculum over the last 20 years has systematically been divorced from subject matter. Four models are described that exemplify satisfying and successful working relationships between the scholarly community and curriculum planners. (Author/MLF)

The authors stress the importance of taking a systematic, well researched, and appropriately documented approach to the development, implementation, and continued growth of a curriculum for the hearing impaired learner. C. Morocco's model provides a framework within which decisions concerning the type and style of research effort can be…

An instrument for analyzing curriculum materials based on the constructs of opportunity, motivation, structure, and instructional events, is presented. A series of questions designed to guide the evaluator through the process are offered and a selection chart for instructional products is included. (RAO)

Presents a socio-historical case study of English educational trends in the early twentieth century to examine some of the problems that have surrounded attempts to investigate the nature of curricular priorities in secondary schools. (Author/DB)

Considers the characteristics of computer based learning (CBL) which have caused it to attract so much attention from evaluators, gives an overview of current approaches to evaluation, and raises questions about what services in CBL are being required of evaluators and how they might best be achieved. (Author/CMV)

Presents a model for researchers to test the mechanisms which have been claimed to operate in curriculum diffusion. The method is different from generalizations based on observations or answers to questionnaires. (Author/KC)

With the advancement of society determined by technological developments, technology education is needed as a common knowledge base. Therefore, education must be technology-based in order to provide members of society with a base to develop the necessary skills for survival in a technological culture. (CT)

"The Educational Imagination: On the Design and Evaluation of School Programs" by Elliot W. Eisner is reviewed. (JD)

The author looks at some evaluation issues arising out of the use of Man: A Course of Study (MACOS) and proposes formats for the assessment of student learning, the results of which could be used to support the value of MACOS and its place in the school timetable. (SJL)

The ways in which process consultation is used to provide technical assistance to schools are discussed. (JD)

A plausible set of concepts useful for theory, research, development, and evaluation concerned with content sequencing is explicated. These concepts provide a framework for discussing sequencing alternatives and their implications. (Author/RC)

Found that in news-editorial programs, the greatest differences between accredited and non-accredited programs occur in the social and behavioral sciences and the journalism theory and history subdivisions. (KS)

Suggests that early in their education students be taught to use basic statistical tests as rigorous methods of comparing experimental results with scientific hypotheses. Stresses that students learn how to use statistical tests in hypothesis-testing by applying them in actual hypothesis-testing situations. To illustrate, uses questions such as…

Argues that the absence of a relationship between doing science and the teaching of science is the problem behind schools' failure to improve the quality of instruction or the quantity of interest. That dissociation is attributed to fundamental working assumptions and the structures deriving from them that have dominated education in this century.…

Describes curriculum review at the State University of New York, Oswego, where faculty and administrators tried to develop an English major that would preserve the best traditional practices and institutionalize innovation. Concludes that curriculum revision would not have moved forward without the Modern Language Association-Fund for the…