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Penn, Roger Frederick – 1972
This study was concerned with a comparison of the effects of utilizing contract and traditional student evaluation methods in a CHEM Study and in a traditional high school chemistry course. The sample consisted of 49 students enrolled in a CHEM Study course and 63 in a traditional chemistry course. Student evaluations were conducted using the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Chemistry, Comparative Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations
Oppenheim, A. N.; Torney, Judith – 1974
This monograph reports on the instrument development phase of the attitudinal section of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) Civic Education Study. During this development the general emphasis was on the measurement of a variety of dimensions derived either from statements of curricular objectives in…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Attitude Measures, Childhood Attitudes, Citizenship
Wagner, Eileen Nause – 1976
Communications to college students about the value of their composition are better expressed in words than in letter grades. Research by Sweet and Seidman suggests that free-style, positive comment on student papers produces a markedly improved attitude toward writing. The author's own research reveals that in the presence of positive, free…
Descriptors: Credit No Credit Grading, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods, Feedback
Brown, Jack E. – 1976
The primary purpose of this practicum was to investigate, identify, record, recommend, and test resolutions to the problem of educational/community resistance to alternative education in general and, more specifically, to identify and resolve as many of the educational/community resistance phenomena and facts as surround Nova High School. Problem…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods, Evening Programs
Work, Gerald G.; And Others – 1974
In order to provide for comprehensive career education needs with appropriate models, it is first necessary to assess the present situation. The purpose of the study was an assessment of the status of career education on the University of Maine's campuses at Augusta, Farmington, Fort Kent, Machias, Orono, Portland-Gorham, and Presque Isle. The…
Descriptors: Career Education, Educational Administration, Educational Assessment, Educational Programs
Richards, James M., Jr. – 1974
Recent research results strongly suggest that the theoretical problems of change measures have limited practical significance for measuring individual growth, and it is important to determine whether this is also the case for measuring school impact. Accordingly, in this study artifical data were used to assess the correlation between several…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Computer Programs, Educational Change, Educational Programs
Skager, Rodney W. – 1969
The definition of evaluation as the collection and interpretation of systematic information about the effectiveness of alternative educational practices suggests several functions of evaluation in education, including: (1) Assessment of the needs of learners, (2) evaluation of program plans, (3) assessment of congruence between plans and actual…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making
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Trent, James W.; Rose, Clare – 1973
This document is the fifth volume in a 5-part series that reports the results of a project undertaken to critically review and analyze major longitudinal studies of child and student development. These studies were conducted to discover the variables, techniques, methodologies, and problems pertinent to evaluative studies of the effects of schools…
Descriptors: Child Development, Classification, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Environment
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1972
A series of methods and techniques for measuring educational wastage are presented step-by-step. Some considerations on the conceptual framework of this problem in statistical terms are presented, and tentative definitions for certain terms are also given. Examples taken from published material and recent surveys showing the extent of grade…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Case Studies, Data Analysis, Dropouts
Kravetz, Nathan – 1970
This 4-part document provides an overview of educational evaluation. Part I outlines the problems in educational evaluation, distinguishing between evaluations of student performance (objective attainment) and those of system operation (cost-effectiveness). Part II reviews existing practices in educational evaluation, focusing on the evaluation of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning
Quirk, Thomas J.; And Others – 1972
A collection of articles related to testing instruments of the National Teacher Examinations (NTE) are reviewed. The report has been organized into four sections. The first discusses briefly the background and purposes of the NTE and the hazards of combining data on these tests in research studies. The second section is concerned with articles…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods
Schalock, H. Del, Ed.; Sell, G. Roger, Ed. – 1972
This volume represents the output of a yearlong effort to clarify and firm the conceptual base that underlies educational RDD&E. It contains three commissioned papers authored by Drs. Hendrik D. Gideonse, Gene V Glass and Blaine R. Worthen, and by Leslie J. Briggs and one paper prepared by H. Del Schalock and G. Roger Sell of the staff of the…
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Diffusion, Educational Change, Educational Demand
GLASER, ROBERT; AND OTHERS – 1966
DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR OF 1963-64, THE LEARNING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER (UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH) AND THE BALDWIN-WHITEHALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF PITTSBURGH INITIATED AN EXPERIMENTAL PROJECT TO INVESTIGATE THE FEASIBILITY OF A SYSTEM OF INDIVIDUALIZED INSTRUCTION IN AN ENTIRE K-6 SCHOOL. PART ONE DESCRIBED THE INITIAL WORK ON THE USE OF…
Descriptors: Achievement, Administration, Arithmetic, Classroom Research
Sewell, William H.; And Others – 1976
This book is an outgrowth of an interdisciplinary seminar on achievement processes. The 15 chapters of this book are distributed into three substantive sections. Part One includes a series of chapters dealing in one way or another with achievement in the life cycle. One chapter discusses the causes and consequences of higher education and…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Anthologies, Economic Opportunities
Applied Management Sciences, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. – 1976
Processes are described which were used to continue the planning necessary for the production of a 20 episode educational television series for parent education. Dramatic episodes showing conflict in the lives of five fictional families form the basis for the planned series which is intended to educate 17-25-year-old parents to facilitate the…
Descriptors: Community Relations, Educational Planning, Educational Research, Educational Television
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