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Carr, K. R. – Saskatchewan Journal of Educational Research and Development, 1974
Article described a project designed to adapt contract teaching on a multi-level basis to the environment of the smaller high school. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Environment, Educational Objectives, Educational Theories
Download full textNational Center for Educational Communication (DHEW/OE), Washington, DC. Div. of Practice Improvement. – 1971
This document explicates what is involved in educational performance contracting. Four basic types of contracts can be used to procure goods and services: fixed and performance contracts for resources and fixed and performance contracts for results. The basic considerations in choice of type are risk, relative technologies, management skills…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Education, Contracts, Cost Effectiveness
Woodbury, Charles A., Jr.; Jacobson, Milton D. – 1972
Aspects of design and procedures used in the evaluation of a performance contract are discussed, and the project and findings are briefly summarized. The Virginia performance contract in reading was carried out in seven school districts. Evaluation of the project showed that although instructional changes that utilized desirable individualized…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Objectives, Educational Testing
Peer reviewedClark, Anne W.; Youse, Joan H. – Journal of Allied Health, 1974
Changes in instructional methods and evaluative criteria in the University of Delaware's baccalaureate degree medical technology curriculum include contract courses with stated behavioral objectives. (MW)
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Allied Health Personnel, Bachelors Degrees
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
Calhoun, Annie Belle; And Others – 1976
Metropolitan State University, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, is a competence-based, baccalaureate-degree-granting institution created in 1971 to serve adults. The Operational Models Project was designed to improve the university's program for assessing experiential learning. Specific purposes of the project were: (1) to describe a program for…
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Competency Based Education, Credentials
Thompson, Lowell, Ed.; Machart, Norm, Ed. – 1981
K-12 social studies teachers in all states can use the readings and exercises in this handbook. It can also be used in pre- and in-service teacher education. The first of six sections discusses social studies' history and goals, laws and regulations in North Dakota, and the new social studies. Materials and services available from the North Dakota…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Content Area Reading, Curriculum Development, Economics Education
Jorstad, Helen L. – 1974
The principal aim of testing is to communicate to the student the extent to which he has progressed in attempting to fulfill his goals. Progress in the testing field is observed especially as a step in a feedback loop that includes goals, tasks, and evaluation procedures for providing feedback to the student. The teacher-as-learner also uses test…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Criterion Referenced Tests
