Author defines accountability, its use in the educational system, and offers a set of questions to check on its effectiveness. (RK)

Three assumptions formed the basis for the study: that formal mental operations are expressed by the formation of concepts; that the psychological principle of conservation characterizes the final step in concept formation; and that the attainment of conservation enables the individual to perform the hypothetico-deductive reasoning required for…

This paper discusses intellectual competence and ways in which to define, measure and use this concept in evaluating college effectiveness. Intellectual competence is divided into two categories: academic mastery and intellectual resourcefulness, with evaluation methods suggested for each. (CK)

Uses test questions from the Basic Economics Test (BET) to reveal that elementary students are capable of understanding economics concepts. Maintains that neither ethnic background nor parental income makes a difference in economic learning. The most statistically significant determinant of improved scores was the extent to which a concept was…