Many U.S. students must pass a standards-based exit exam to earn a high school diploma. The degree to which exit exams and state standards properly signal to students their preparedness for postsecondary schooling has been questioned. The alignment of test scores with college grades for students at the University of Arizona (n = 2,667) who took…

This pretest report on the National Head Start Evaluation Project gives data on ethnicity and ages of children enrolled in four Head Start centers in Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona, and describes the present status of evaluation at these centers. Completed pretests, proposed evaluation instruments, and available pretest data are presented.…

AUTOMATED SYSTEMS WERE USED IN THIS STUDY WITH STUDENTS ENROLLED IN A LARGE UNDERGRADUATE SOCIOLOGY CLASS. THE EXPERIMENT WAS DIVIDED INTO THREE PHASES--DOCUMENTATION, EXPERIMENTATION, AND MEASUREMENT OF CRITERIA AND ANALYSES. PHASE 1 DEALT WITH THE PROBLEMS OF ABSTRACTING AND ENCODING SOCIAL SCIENCE LITERATURE AND ALSO THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SYSTEM…