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Download full textMassachusetts State Dept. of Education, Boston. – 2002
This report shares with educators and the public all of the test items on which spring 2002 student results from the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) are based. The release of these items provides information on the kinds of knowledge and skills students are expected to demonstrate on the MCAS tests. Local educators are…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, State Programs, Test Items
Bard, Joseph F. – 1995
This circular outlines the inclusion policy of the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Inclusion is defined as a combination of long-standing "least restrictive environment" policies, with an emphasis on active social membership in the class or community, but not representing a legal requirement that every child be educated in the same…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Inclusive Schools
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Student Assessment Section. – 1983
This publication is designed to aid teachers, principals, district staff, and other educators in reading, interpreting and using the data from the October 1983 Florida Statewide Assessment. This guide is divided into three main sections: an introduction; a discussion of the forms used to report results, and suuggestions for interpretation and…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, State Programs
Powell, Cathy – 1988
To increase parent involvement and meet the need for adult help in classrooms, a preschool director implemented a practicum in a church-owned, nondenominational preschool serving 250 children from an upper-middle-class community in the Northeast. The intervention offered a wide range of parent involvement activities, including the formation of a…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Parent Participation, Preschool Education, Private Schools
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Malden. Early Learning Services. – 1988
This document presents a self-assessment instrument for early childhood programs serving 3- and 4-year-olds in Massachusetts. The self-assessment is intended to provide guidance to program personnel, local early childhood advisory council members, and parents as they evaluate their programs and identify areas for improvement. The instrument also…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Preschool Education, Preschool Evaluation, Program Evaluation
Southwest Educational Development Lab., Austin, TX. – 1981
Developed to share information presented at a Southwest Educational Development Laboratory Regional Exchange (SEDL/RX) conference, this document includes reports and related materials on educational computing applications in southwestern school districts and states. Basic computer terminology is defined, and software evaluation instruments are…
Descriptors: Competence, Courseware, Evaluation Criteria, Microcomputers
Michigan State Board of Education, Lansing. – 1980
Designed for use by Michigan community colleges wishing to conduct a self-study of their occupational programs, this manual provides step-by-step instructions and instrumentation for implementing the Program Review in Occupational Education (PROE) model. PROE is a component of the Michigan Community College Occupational Education Evaluation System…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods
Crook, Shirley J. – 1986
The South Carolina Trade Examinations for trade and industrial education teachers are administered semiannually by the Office of Vocational Education. This handbook is designed to provide prospective trade and industrial education teachers, vocational administrators, State Department of Education personnel, and other interested parties with…
Descriptors: Industrial Arts, Postsecondary Education, State Programs, Teacher Certification
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. Bureau of Curriculum and Academic Services. – 2000
This document contains materials directly related to the actual reading test of the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA), including the reading rubric, released passages, selected-response questions with answer keys, performance tasks, and scored samples of students' responses to the tasks. All of these items may be duplicated to…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Tests
Ohio State Legislative Office of Education Oversight, Columbus. – 1991
This report evaluates the Teacher Education Loan Program in Ohio based on an analysis of survey responses of 57 recipients and 47 non-recipients of these loans in 1990-91. Data were also obtained from administrators of the program and publications and statistics provided by the program. Questions asked were intended to discover the program's…
Descriptors: Financial Aid Applicants, Higher Education, Paying for College, State Aid
Wenger, Marta; And Others – 1989
The results of a survey of physicians actively involved at the state level in policy development for Part H of Public Law 99-457 are reported. A questionnaire was completed by a total of 125 physicians, including physicians identified as Interagency Coordinating Council (ICC) members and physicians who served as state chapter representatives to…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Attitudes, Disabilities, Early Intervention
Kaufman, David, Ed. – 1991
This manual is designed to provide information to interlibrary loan (ILL) practitioners about the philosophy behind interlibrary loan, as well as a functional knowledge of its routines. The first part of the manual presents general and background material about interlibrary loans. Included in this section are a glossary of library terms, the…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Interlibrary Loans, Library Cooperation, Library Materials
Alaska State Dept. of Education, Juneau. – 1986
This handbook is designed to serve as a resource for Alaskan district-level administrators in charge of planning, implementing and monitoring districtwide student assessment programs. The information is divided into 10 chapters, including: (1) aligning assessment with curriculum and instruction; (2) planning an assessment program; (3)…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Educational Testing, Program Costs
Kovaleski, Joseph F. – 1994
This instrument is designed to help school administrators assess the level of implementation of the essential elements of the Instructional Support Teams (IST) process in Pennsylvania. The instrument is a rating sheet, or checklist, on which the presence and absence of components of the IST process are noted. The number of features in place is…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Intervention
Bavaro, Mary Ellen; And Others – 1995
These four diagnostic guides, developed as part of the Investing in People Project in Connecticut, Iowa, Kentucky, Washington, and West Virginia, can be used to help states in assessing their current work force and economic development systems and in building more comprehensive, integrated, and effective strategies for improving the work force.…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Evaluation Methods, Futures (of Society), Labor Economics
