Defines the meanings of "evaluation" and "assessment" in education and their implications for educational objectives and planning. (RK)

Investigates processes involved in visual estimation and processes of judgment in visual estimation situations involving proportional reasoning. Exposure to a unit in the Agam project, designed to enhance visual estimation capabilities, resulted in changes in the nine-year-old subjects' strategies, reflecting processes by which children overcome…

Describes a new kind of electronic scholarly journal in which the standard submission-review-publication process is replaced by an approach based on judgments expressed by the readers, where each reader is potentially a peer reviewer. Shows how to compute, on the basis of expressed judgments, values of scores and steadiness of papers, authors, and…

The following categories of research on choice behavior of individuals with severe developmental disabilities are reviewed: assessing their choice making, building choice opportunities in daily contexts, and evaluating the effects of choice making. Research suggests that most people with severe developmental disabilities are capable of making…

Explores adolescents' abilities to reason when considering civic issues. Analyzes dialectical essays composed by 22 high school students in order to evaluate the degree of critical reasoning displayed by the students. Suggests that high school students are capable of taking a position through critical evaluation when confronted with a civic issue.…

Four devalued, largely missing areas of teacher education should be reconsidered in reconstructing curriculum for teacher education: autobiography, inquiry, reflection, and critique. Preliminary results are discussed from a study of a year-long experimental teacher education program which incorporated these four components. (IAH)

Found ability of ninth graders (N=365) to accurately appraise career-relevant capabilities of others had nothing to do with ability to be good self-appraisers. Found race and sex differences in ability to appraise others. Found scholastic ability accounted for four times as much variance in ability to appraise others as oneself. Found students…

Provides a set of teaching activities for a mini-unit on pirates. Urges the use of such activities as a means of stimulating student interest in determining the difference between fact and myth. Presents an interdisciplinary approach which reinforces skills ranging from geography to creative writing. (KO)

It is assumed that evaluators of the future will still be interested in case study methodology. Scenarios that ignore a case study method, that look back to a distinctive case study method, and that see the case study method as an integrating force in the qualitative-quantitative debate are explored. (SLD)

This study tested the predictions of Fischer's skill theory for Kitchener and King's reflective judgment model. A total of 156 14- to 28-year-old students were tested, utilizing the Reflective Judgement Interview (RJI) and Prototypic Reflective Judgement Interview (PRJI). Subjects scored higher on the PRJI than they did on the RJI. There was a…

Distinguishes radical skepticism from everyday skepticism and positional pedagogical skepticism. Theorizes on the systematic importance of radical skepticism as a philosophical orientation in education. Reviews the infrequent appearance of skepticism as a concept in the history of educational theory. (CH)

Justifies the honest portrayal of historical figures in social studies curricula. Confronts the problems teachers face when helping students analyze conflicting perspectives and values that emerge in an inclusive history. States that students must learn how to make informed judgments about history and the different interpretations involved. (CMK)

Provides examples of activities to help student learn to critically evaluate information from the World Wide Web based on the Big6 approach to library and information skills instruction. Lists criteria for evaluating Web sites and describes how to relate activities to student projects so relevant Web sites can be used. (LRW)

In supervising children, camp counselors should be aware of certain truths about working with campers that can affect their safety: the tendency for campers to become overstimulated, the effect campers can have on adults known as regressive pull, and the situation known as player-umpire. A counselor judgement checklist is offered that will help…

Ten speech-language pathology students judged five-second audiovisually recorded speech intervals as stuttered or nonstuttered in group and single-subject experiments. Results showed that judgment accuracy tended to increase after training, both for speakers used during the training process and unfamiliar speakers. Slight increases in interjudge…