The Oregon State Board of Education initiated the Oregon Statewide Assessment Program in 1973 as a means for gathering data on student performance in the basic skills areas. Tests were administered to 27,086 fourth, seventh and eleventh grade students in 405 schools selected at random in March of 1982. Test results were returned to participating…

Relationships among a series of variables were examined for demographic items included in the 1985-86 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) special survey of Hispanic and Asian students (N=2,289) and also in the Department of Education special survey of the educational preference of language minority parents. Variables studied were:…

GRADES OR AGES: K-12. SUBJECT MATTER: English. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The first half of the guide consists of several chapters which give a general outline of the program. The second half is broken down into two sections--"Language in Action" and "Literature in Action"--which outline the program in greater detail. These two sections…

GRADES OR AGES: 7-12; SUBJECT MATTER: Mathematics. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide has an introduction and four chapters: 1) A Sample Mathematics Curriculum; 2) The Exceptional Student in Mathematics; 3) Mathematics Components for Comprehensive Occupational Education; 4) Reference Materials. The guide is printed and spiral bound…

This study represents the first to empirically validate the structure of social self-concept (SC) as proposed by the Shavelson model. For each of three age groups--preadolescents (252 3rd graders), early adolescents (290 7th graders), and late adolescents (335 11th graders)--analyses of covariance structures were used to test: (1) that social SC…

The differential item functioning of mathematics performance of Hispanic, Asian, and White students on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) was studied, using a modification of the Mantel-Haenszel Procedure. The sample for grades 3, 7, and 11, respectively, included: (1) 1,367, 1,570, and 1,580 Whites; (2) 265, 613, and 760…

GRADES OR AGES: Unspecified. SUBJECT MATTER: Effective living. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: Most of the pages are divided into three columns: concept, some activities, and teacher comments. The guide is offset printed and spiral bound with a soft cover. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES: The guide is divided into eight units: human growth and…

GRADES OR AGES: K-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Mathematics. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into three sections, one each for elementary grades, middle grades, and high school. Each section is further subdivided by grade level. Sections are laid out in four columns across two pages. Column headings are concepts, teaching methods…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 1-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Reading. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide has the following major sections: listening skills, word recognition skills, comprehension skills, reading and study skills in content areas. Grade levels are not indicated, as instruction in a skill should begin at the point where it is…

The Kentucky State plan for the collection of data concerning the cognitive, affective and psychomotor needs of school children is discussed. The plan entailed three phases: (1) the identification of learner needs; (2) translating needs priorities into program goals and field testing the program objectives in a sampling of school districts to…

Measures of retention of a Hawaiian lesson given to fourth, seventh, eighth, and eleventh-graders (N=182) indicated that fourth-graders had poorer retention than the other students, while seventh and eighth-graders exceeded eleventh-graders on some tasks, suggesting that second language learning capacity cannot be defined in terms of age alone.…

Reports on conceptual understanding and solution strategies for percent problems of (n=31) students representing 2 ability levels from grades 5, 7, 9, and 11. Strategies evolved from intuitive to formal and increased in diversity with increasing age. Appendix includes concept and computation interview questions. (Contains 15 references.) (MKR)

GRADES OR AGES: K-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Teaching English dialects. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into four sections of learning experiences--prekindergarten-grade 3, grade 4-grade 6, grade 7-grade 9, and grade 10-grade 12. Each section deals with selected knowledge, specific learning, and learning experiences. There are…

Several indices of factorial consistency were applied to a biographical inventory administered to a longitudinal sample of 2070 students in the 7th, 9th, and 11th grades. Results were compared with those of a prior cross-sectional study at the same grade levels. Comparisons of dimensional change over the three grades, for the cross-sectional and…

This unit is one of a series that represents specific moments in history from which students focus on the meanings of landmark events. This unit explores Greece's most glorious century, the high point of Athenian culture. Rarely has so much genius been concentrated in one small region over such a short period of time. Students discover in studying…