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Friedrich, Gustav W. – 1972
This paper suggests guidelines designed for use by speech communication teachers in assessing the competency of their students. The author proposes four kinds of evaluation of cognitive, affective, and psychomotor learning (three types of learning essential for the speech communication classroom): placement, formative, diagnostic, and summative.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Communication (Thought Transfer), Evaluation Criteria
Dembo, Myron H.; Wilson, Donald E. – 1972
This paper reports an evaluation of a performance contract in reading with 2,500 seventh-grade students. Seventy-five percent of the students were to increase their reading speed five times over their beginning level with ten percent more comprehension after three months of instruction. Results indicated that only thirteen percent of the students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Evaluation Methods, Grade 7, Individualized Instruction
Office of Economic Opportunity, Washington, DC. Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation. – 1972
This report describes briefly the experimental design and presents the basic contract provisions. The experiment results reveal that performance contracting is no more successful than traditional classroom methods in improving the reading and mathematics skills of poor children. Both control and experimental groups performed equally poorly in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Experiments, Evaluation Methods

Ashburn, Arnold G.; Webster, William J. – Journal of Educational Research, 1973
This paper focused on evaluation efforts related to projects involving performance contracts and some of the major problems encountered. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods
Chandler, B. J. – 1971
This discussion of the pros and cons of educational accountability and performance contracting comments on the educational and historical context of performance contracting and indicates some directions performance contracting will take. The author warns that since performance contracting is a new tool it must be used cautiously and with skill by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Basic Skills, Boards of Education
Carpenter, Polly – 1971
This speech provides a summary of the Rand/HEW study of eight performance contract programs in the five cities of Gilroy, California; Texarkana, Arkansas; Gary, Indiana; Grand Rapids, Michigan; and Norfolk, Virginia. The effects of performance contracting on instruction and on student learning, the program costs and management, the contractors,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Economics, Evaluation Methods, Mathematics Education
Borders, Joan – VocEd, 1981
The contract system is made up of four parts: the actual student contract; the progress report; suggestions for accommodating special needs students in vocational and regular classrooms; and proposed guidelines for classroom teachers who have special needs students in their classes. (LRA)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disabilities, Evaluation Methods, Grading
Aierstock, Barbara A. – 1978
This paper examines the subject of "contract teaching", particularly as it relates to the field of instruction for physical education majors. Essentially, contracting for grades includes, "...an agreement between a teacher and a student at the beginning of a course as to the grade the student expects to receive and the amount and quality of work…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Evaluation Methods, Grading, Humanistic Education
Lennon, Roger T. – 1971
This report defines the concepts and some of the problems of accountability and performance contracting with special emphasis on measurement problems in the latter. Measurement problems involve both the validity and the reliability of standardized achievement tests as a basis for reimbursing a contractor. The author suggests the use of criterion…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Programs

Knezevich, Stephen J. – 1974
This speech traces the evolution of accountability, defines accountability, and examines alternative approaches to accountability. The author conceptualizes educational accountability in operational terms as a system for improving the delivery of educational outcomes that would clarify who is answerable to whom, for what, then, and within what…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Legislation, Educational Objectives
Office of Economic Opportunity, Washington, DC. Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation. – 1972
This report describes the experimental design, presents the contract provisions, and provides conclusions and recommendations. The document is comprised of five chapters that discuss (1) the statistical analysis methods used, (2) the problems of using standardized tests in performance contracting, (3) the contractual procedures between OEO and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Experiments, Evaluation Methods
Kellor, Eileen M. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2005
Traditional methods of paying and evaluating teachers in the United States are longstanding, but discussions about changing these systems to support teacher quality and student achievement goals are becoming more common. Efforts to make significant changes to these programs can be difficult and take many years to design, gain approval, and…
Descriptors: Compensation (Remuneration), Charter Schools, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation
Penn, Roger Frederick – 1972
This study was concerned with a comparison of the effects of utilizing contract and traditional student evaluation methods in a CHEM Study and in a traditional high school chemistry course. The sample consisted of 49 students enrolled in a CHEM Study course and 63 in a traditional chemistry course. Student evaluations were conducted using the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Chemistry, Comparative Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1971
This Educational Testing Service conference provided an opportunity to clarify many of the issues and problems involved with educational accountability. Among these issues were assessment, evaluation, auditing, and performance contracting. The papers included in these proceedings are: The Means and Ends of Accountability (Terrel H. Bell); Issues…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Conference Reports, Educational Objectives
Texarkana School District 7, AR. – 1970
This document provides the necessary instructions and forms for submission of a rapid learning center performance contract proposal as part of a 4-year dropout prevention program. Contract performance proposals are to embody mathematics and/or reading, and to involve students enrolled in grades 7-12 who are two or more grade levels deficient in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bids, Cognitive Objectives, Data Analysis
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