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Download full textCoordinating Office for Regional Resource Centers, Lexington, KY.
Provided are the proceedings of "With Bias toward None," a national planning conference on nonbiased assessment of handicapped children. Major sections of the document cover the following: the filmstrip introduction, general session presentations, clinic sessions handouts, issues generated at the conference, assessment models and…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Culture Fair Tests, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education
Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development, Washington, DC. – 1992
In 1990, the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development convened a Task Force to guide the work on a new Project on Youth Development and Community Programs. The major goals of this project are to expand the scope and availability of developmentally appropriate, community-based services for young adolescents, particularly those in high-risk…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Programs, Conferences, Disadvantaged Youth
Bronx Community Coll., NY. – 1977
The objective of the final conference was to provide an opportunity for the 10 Associate institutions of National Project II to share what they had learned, both individually and as a consortium. Each institution had been chosen to participate in the project on the basis of an exemplary program for underprepared college students. This document…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Educationally Disadvantaged, Evaluation Methods, Federal Aid
Brown, Catherine Caldwell, Ed. – 1981
Summarized in this book are conference presentations focusing on new approaches to developmental screening of infants and strategies for early intervention with children at-risk. Summaries concerning assessment describe characteristics of an "optimality scale" for neurological assessment; a five-step neurological assessment for…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Child Development, Disadvantaged, Evaluation Methods
Gross, Beatrice; Gross, Ronald – 1982
This conference report identifies research needs in evaluating and documenting large scale school improvement efforts to serve disadvantaged populations. Summaries of the conference presentations are provided, grouped into three sections. The first section examines the basis of conducting evaluations. Several basic assumptions are challenged,…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Early Childhood Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Facilities Improvement
Wargo, Michael J., Ed.; Green, Donald Ross, Ed. – 1977
The following papers were delivered: Introductory Remarks, John W. Evans; An Evaluator's Perspective, Michael J. Wargo; Problems of Achievement Tests in Program Evaluation, Donald Ross Green; Diverse Human Populations and Problems in Educational Program Evaluation via Achievement Testing, Edmund W. Gordon; Critical Issues in Achievement Testing of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Educational Testing
Pierce-Jones, John; And Others – 1967
This document is a transcript of the proceedings of a one-day meeting held in Austin, Texas on March 29, 1967. Participants included representatives of the national Head Start Planning Committee, the Head Start Research and Evaluation Division in Washington, D. C., and the staff and study directors of the regional Child Development Evaluation and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Dialect Studies
Fry, Ronald R., Ed.; Garner, William E., Ed. – 1993
Selected papers are as follows: "Evolving Policy Paradigms and Legislative Implications for Vocational Assessment Services" (LeConte et al.); "Integrating Academic Competencies in Vocational Assessment, Education, and Training" (DeMoss, Horvath); "Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)" (Thomas et al.); "Selecting…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Diagnostic Tests
North East Association for Institutional Research. – 1988
The 1988 annual conference of the North East Association for Institutional Research focused on strategic choice. Selected papers included: "Fact Books: Paper-Based or Electronic?" (T. Gusler); "Electronic Factbooks" (J. Jacobsen); "A Comparative Analysis of Community College Administrators' and Adult Evening Credit Course…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Admission Criteria, Adult Learning, Alumni
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1973
Robert L. Thorndike was awarded the Educational Testing Service (ETS) Measurement Award at the 1972 ETS Invitational Conference. In "Heredity, Environment, and Class or Ethnic Differences," J. McV. Hunt addressed several fundamental questions pertaining to the hereditary and environmental influences of the observed social class and ethnic…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Achievement Tests, Awards, Biological Influences
Wisconsin Univ. System, Madison. – 1999
This document contains 71 papers and 11 workshop presentations on distance teaching and learning from a conference on educational research. The following are among the papers included: "Bridging Distances and Differences" (Nancy Anderson); "The Role of Site Directors in Faculty and Student Success" (Edith M. Barnett, Jeanie P.…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Academic Libraries, Academic Persistence, Adult Learning
