Discusses the use of educational objectives in evaluating student progress on the accounting practice set. (JS)

By creating new programs for special categories of students and special interest courses for the community at large, community colleges have more than kept their enrollments up. They have called into question traditional definitions of students, curriculum, and faculty. (Editor)

The period of stress which colleges and universities currently face is analyzed in terms of environmental and organizational factors. (Editor)

Compares strategies used in the process of planned educational change. Focuses on the post-Sputnick American experience, the approaches used, the failure and the successes. These are related to the Australian experience concentrating on the Schools Commission's Innovations Program, its distinctions, problems and potential. (Editor/RK)

The philosophy and contents of a single one-year course preparatory to college algebra and trigonometry are presented. (MM)

Presents a job aid for determining test-item format called TIFAID (Test Item Format Job Aid), based on adequately constructed instructional objectives. The four sections of the job aid are described: (1) a task classification system; (2) task-related questions; (3) a flowchart; and (4) a tips and techniques guide. (Contains four references.) (LRW)

Advice on the selection of suitable instructional materials to support the chosen method(s) of instruction is offered in this booklet. The first of four sections takes a brief look at the different roles that instructional materials can play in the three main instructional modes--mass instruction, individualized learning, and group learning. The…

A description of the development and application of a hierarchical/binary model by which a curriculum may be analyzed to determine alternative instructional sequences given particular instructional objectives and limiting constraints forms the body of this report. The background of the project as part of an effort by the U.S. Navy Recruiting…

Attrition/retention of two cohorts of first-time, full-time degree students enrolled at the State University of New York was studied. Attrition is defined as the failure to achieve some goal or objective. Students enrolling in bachelor degree programs and in two-year degree programs in the fall of 1971 and 1972 were studied. Information on the…

A method for determining a school district's ranking of its educational goals, making use of board of education, administration, faculty, and community attitudes toward local needs, is outlined in this document. Written for use in Pennsylvania districts, the manual is designed to serve in conjunction with the state's Educational Quality Assessment…

This study concentrates on the major organizational change of a massive university during its fight for survival. Three intellectual themes interweave as they form a framework to examine the problems of organizational change. (Author/RK)

Considers E. Paul Torrance's research on the fourth grade slump in school motivation and self concept and its implications for education. (Author/RK)

An external audit of East Los Angeles College's Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS) Program brought the inadequacies of the planning and evaluation model currently utilized for developmental programs to the attention of academic planners. In response to this, a two-level decision-making model was developed to aid in identifying and…

Describes the objectives of the RISE legislation, specifically, to reform a school system which must keep up with a society whose technological and social changes are occurring at an increasing rate. (Author/RK)

The use of a strategic planning model to integrate a computer literacy component into an established general education program is illustrated. Key issues are identified at each planning model stage, which consists of: identifying appropriate goals, writing objectives, developing an action plan, identifying options/alternatives, identifying…