An attempt is made to clarify the notion of open education and to contrast it with other orientations by drawing upon recent overseas writing and research. (Editor)

This article deals with a comparison of the congruent and divergent aspects of expressionistic and phenomenological theories of aesthetics and some implications for aesthetic education. (Author)

The process of generating and evaluating diagnoses and selecting appropriate investigative or management procedures is based on a constant acquisition, interpretation, and evaluation of critical findings. Common assessments of these processes are often limited to scoring the accuracy of the diagnoses, investigative procedures, or management…

The direction of this workshop is toward two major goals: (1) participant understanding of the kinds of information an evaluation can provide for educational decision making; and (2) participant understanding of the general procedures and problems involved in selecting, collecting, analyzing, and reporting that information. It is the intent of the…

Article discussed reasons why teachers should encourage hypothesizing by children and how they can be stimulated to formulate them. (Author/RK)

Too often in American psychology, researchers have sought mastery (explanation) of phenomena through prediction and control, thereby eliminating the problems of interpretation by simply eliminating interpretation. This tactic is in contrast to the interpretive works of psychologists, such as Freud, who expect symbols to have double meanings…

Aware that what works in one school may not work at all in another, the writer describes how the system of goal-setting conferences worked for him and his teachers as a supervisory technique. (Editor)

The world has long appreciated what most American intellectuals continue to ignore--that there is a significant American music, going its diverse ways with irresistible vitality. (Editor)

Any given inquiry can be divided into four methodological stages. These are: problem solving, problem evaluating, solution forming and solution evaluating. In teaching students to think, teachers should encourage them in all of these steps. (GC)

Argues that how curriculum evaluations are conducted is more important than who conducts them, and stresses the need to make evaluations more systematic, more public, and more sensitive to differences in data needs at the various levels of decision making inherent in groups. (Author/JG)

The role of human judgment in the development and synthesis of evidence has not been adequately developed or acknowledged within quasi-experimental analysis. Corrective solutions need to confront the fact that causal analysis within complex environments will require a more active assessment that entails reasoning and statistical modeling.…

Twenty-five learning disabled adolescents were administered Kohlberg's Moral Judgment Interview. Compared to the average achieving adolescents, LD Ss showed less evidence of ability to view moral dilemmas from a community or societal perspective. LD Ss also exhibited a substantial amount of reasoning from an egocentric perspective focusing on…

A teacher of forty years describes his experiences with his students, who, he says, have always made him look good. (RK)

Professor Harlan C. Koch of the University of Michigan served as managing editor of the Quarterly for a number of years, and contributed short columns of comment on current issues. The final article of this fifty-years overview of the Quarterly is such a comment of his, written in 1946. (Editor/RK)

The purpose of this experiment was to see if there would be a conditioning of evaluative meaning effect when a procedure was used that reduced contingency and demand awareness. The results lend support to Staats' conditioning of meaning and attitude theory. (Author/KM)