Assessment and evaluation skills are significant goals of clinical training, yet many clinical and counseling students lack personal experiences with applied program evaluation. Clinical psychology graduate students responded to successive impending accreditation visits by conducting in-house evaluations. Students in 1977 (N=38) and 1980 (N=35)…

Between 1976 and 1979, Head Start, as part of its strategy for Spanish-speaking children, funded four institutions for the purpose of developing and implementing four distinct bilingual bicultural preschool curriculum models for use with Spanish-speaking children. In 1977, the Research, Demonstration, and Evaluation Division of the Administration…

The results of an evaluation of various aspects of the Instructional System in Mathematics (ISM) are presented. ISM is an objectives-based, computer-supported, management system which builds upon a previously developed mathematics curriculum. Questionnaires to school-based personnel and students, in-school observations, and interviews, were used…

The development of minimum standards in higher education through the evolution of accreditation in specialized disciplines, and standard setting in criminology and criminal justice education are examined. The very different experiences with the concept of accreditation encountered in the fields of public administration and law are considered. Law…

This pamphlet contains resources intended to aid local curriculum committees who are developing and implementing the social studies component of their school's multicultural, nonsexist education plan. Although written for use by Iowa educators, the pamphlet can easily be used by educators in other states. The pamphlet is comprised of various…

A study was conducted to validate the welding curriculum materials developed and published by the Oklahoma State Department of Vocational and Technical Education. Twelve instructors collected achievement data (unit tests, assignment sheets, and evaluation forms) concerning the performance of 280 students on a total of 46 instructional units. Item…

Presented are new principles and methods in the instruction of mathematics, with the primary focus at the elementary school level. The first half has the following sections: (1) The Influence of Environment on Child Behavior; (2) Pre-Mathematics; (3) The General and the Abstract; (4) The Passage from Pre-Math to Mathematics; (5) Building a…

This study evaluates the Unified Sciences and Mathematics for Elementary School (USMES) curriculum developed by the Education Development Center in Massachusetts. Effects of using USMES materials on students' economic understanding, attitudes, and problem-solving ability were explored. The research also examined the simultaneous relationship…

The objectives of this study were to relate the competencies of the Nursing Program at Delaware County Community College to national morbidity statistics and to recommend curriculum changes based on this analysis. Existing terminal objectives of the program and each nursing module were compared with college-wide terminal objectives, overlap was…

The basics of social studies are ill defined because there is little data available on which social studies goals teachers value and which they feel are best achieved. To obtain this data an instrument was developed in two forms. Form A was composed of 25 goal items from five areas in which social studies goals were commonly espoused: citizenship,…

This paper discusses the current state of the high school psychology curriculum and suggests an alternative program combining a graduate program for teachers with an emphasis on teaching adolescent development. There are three approaches to teaching psychology currently; scientific, personal, and a compromise between the first two, using a current…

A study was conducted of post-graduation activities of 1974 graduates of the sixteen constituent institutions of the University of North Carolina (UNC). Data was gathered on what the graduates were doing one-and-a-half years after graduation. The study provided information about their employment situation, their job satisfaction and the general…

The purpose of the self-appraisal checklist is to assist school personnel in their endeavors to improve the elementary school program of physical education. The checklist is organized into eight major categories that represent essential aspects of an elementary school program: philosophy, organization and administration, class management, the…

A series of reports describes the activities of the Office of Research and Evaluation and compiles data descriptive of the Austin (Texas) Independent School District. This report describes the system-wide evaluation data for the school year 1976-77, which demonstrate improved performance in the basic skills areas of reading and mathematics,…

This summary of the presentation given at four Head Start Regional Bilingual/Multicultural Conferences consists of materials related to the Head Start Strategy for Spanish-speaking Children. Keynote addresses focus on Head Start policy implications, the future of Head Start in the 1980s, and the relation of bilingual/bicultural programs to the…