The Commission on International Adult Education (CIAE) of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) provides a forum for the discussion of international issues related to adult education in general, as well as adult education in various countries around the globe. The following purposes summarize the work of the…

This last article in a series of seven describes the outcome of attempts to implement performance contracting in an innovative school district in Colorado. In reviewing the series, the author concludes that although many of the innovations discussed did not survive, the schools were none the worse for their experimentation. (WD)

A flexible, point contract system is described which maximizes the advantages of a criterion-referenced contract system while eliminating some of the disadvantages of standard grade contracts. This model has been used by the author in a variety of high school and college courses. (Author/SJL)

This booklet is the third in a series of eight reporting on the tenth-cycle Teacher Corps program in the Lincoln, Nebraska public school system, and details the role contracts and contracting play in the learning process. Key concepts in contracting are enumerated and specific processes are discussed as they relate to instructional contracts,…

A humorous account is given of an imaginary negotiation between teacher and students about a learning contract. (PBS)

The use of performance contracts as a method of teaching reading as a social studies skill is discussed. Suggestions are provided for organizing the classroom in order to group students. A guide for teaching reading skills contains a sequenced list of suggested activities to aid students in improving reading skills. (JR)

Describes an individualized multi-media remedial reading program incorporating performance contracting. (TO)

Many of the problems facing secondary schools today can be solved, this paper says, by negotiating learning contracts with students. Presented here is a model for shared accountability. (Author)

The DeLasalle Education Center in Kansas City, Missouri, accepts only students who are confirmed educational failures. The school is private, charges no tuition, and demonstrates that educational programs can succeed when the teacher and the student agree on the learning materials, how they are to be used, and the expected results. The center has…

A teacher relates his experiences with and offers suggestions for using learning activity packets, or contracts, in a high school social studies class. (KM)

As the Houston (Texas) Independent School District decentralized decision making and exchanged a culture of compliance for one stressing professional performance, they made corresponding changes in management. To attract a new breed of administrators, the district offers higher pay for higher job expectations (and less job security), via…

A program is described in which evaluation is made an integral part of the learning process. (JH)

Based on the contract grading system, this language arts course guide focuses on reading, writing, research, and film projects on topics which give people the "heebie-jeebies" and for which students earn points toward a final grade. Point values are dependent on the difficulty of the project or the length of the reading material. Contents of the…

Testing of a modified contract instructional method (contract, instructional objectives, self-test) with a traditional procedure supports the contention that, for a population of underachieving junior high school students, the modified contract procedure constitutes a more effective teaching method. (Author/MJB)