This report includes the application for validation, the state review form, and the on-site validation form for a demonstration center based on a computer-managed system of reading instruction. The project seeks to provide locally constructed diagnostic tests, computer-indexed teaching materials, criterion-referenced tests, and periodic summaries…

This objective referenced test for an early childhood education program was written after examination of approximately 20 tests designed for evaluation of preschoolers. The test measures the attainment of performance objectives in self-awareness, language skills, cognitive skills, career awareness, and determines whether youngsters are ready for…

This paper argues that the technology of the systems approach to instruction (using performance objectives) demands a "rules" or structured organizational climate in which high productivity will most likely result from detailed supervision. The author focuses, albeit briefly, on performance as a function of the interaction between…

This is a catalog of performance objectives and criterion measures covering algebra I, algebra II, geometry, and trigonometry for students planning to take technical mathematics at a junior college. Broad objectives, specific objectives, and criterion referenced test items are presented by skill and knowledge areas within each of the four courses…

This is an individually administered test designed as an aid in placing Kindergarten children in an appropriate developmental curriculum sequence, and in determining at what level to begin instruction. The test covers motor development, auditory perception, visual perception, and language development. Test materials consist of an administrator's…

The Philadelphia School District's Consumer Education project aims to teach consumers to spend their money more wisely. Services offered by the Consumer Affairs Education Services staff included workshops for teachers and parents, support for individual teacher and faculties through liaison staff members, materials from and the use of the resource…

Described in the final report is a project designed to develop, field-test, and disseminate a dual, compatible system of curriculum and criterion-referenced evaluation based on a sample of 40 trainable mentally retarded students (5-15 years old) in self help, basic language, number, and prevocational skills. Program summary information includes a…

Talents Unlimited (TU) is an educational program based in Mobile, Alabama, and developed under an Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III grant. The program was validated nationally over three years and is now part of the National Diffusion Network. Six areas of talent were identified: productive thinking; forecasting; decision making;…

The Early Childhood Prekindergarten Assessment Instrument is a criterion referenced approach designed to help locate the child along a developmental curriculum sequence. Certain skills are analyzed according to auditory, visual, motor, and verbal learning processes, and determine what level the child has attained prior to entering school. Along…

The goal of this project was to eliminate sex bias in education through the development of student and teacher awareness of sex bias. Four objectives were developed for the first year project: (1) the development and implementation of nonsexist curriculum in grades 4-12, (2) the development of teachers' and librarians' awareness of sexism in…

An evaluation of the "Recycling the Community School" program at Alexander Shepherd Elementary School in Washington, D.C. was conducted. The program's major objectives were: (1) initiation of the development of a multi-modal curriculum that focuses on raising of achievement of 80 percent of students in the essential skills as measured by…