Teleconferencing is an effective and cost-efficient means of providing the staff of the school district access to consultants and inservice programs. Teleconferencing differs from televised programs in that it is interactive, allowing participants in a conference or program to be in different places, yet still communicate. Experience at the San…

In preparation for adding an essay test to the General Educational Development (GED) test, the GED Testing Service undertook a series of studies to establish (1) whether acceptable reading reliabilities were attainable in decentralized holistic scoring sessions often involving no more than a dozen papers; (2) whether essay readers in a variety of…

A study was conducted to investigate the effects of handwriting on the grades assigned to essays. Contrary to previous studies, this study employed a grading situation in which teachers holistically evaluated many papers as rapidly as possible simulating real grading conditions. Good handwriting was defined as that done by five experts in the…

Presents guidelines for teaching high school and college students how to write essay tests in English. (RB)

These three booklets include the writing assessment tests of the Wisconsin Pupil Assessment Program for grades 5, 8, and 11. The first exercise in each booklet is the writing of a story using a photograph as the stimulus. The second exercise is the revision of a story written previously. The eleventh grade test also includes a third exercise:…

Of the various unrelated approaches used in advanced college composition courses, one has proved especially successful in encouraging professionalism in student writers: an approach in which students are required to write for and submit their work to professional publications. When students write articles, they deal with many rhetorical modes and…

The effects of mediation essays on assignment completion and inappropriate talking of five mildly retarded high school students were examined. The teacher kept records of percent of assignments completed and occurrence of three talking out behaviors (talking to one's neighbor, making noise in class, and talking to one's self). Students were first…

Presented are twenty essays related to applications in school mathematics and aimed at the classroom teacher. The essays use numerous examples and illustrations that provide the teacher with something tangible for immediate use. Four thematic areas are addressed: (1) What are applications?; (2) Why include applications in school mathematics?; (3)…

A number of conclusions can be drawn from an examination of epistemological questions relevant to the building of a theory of research practice in educational administration: (1) the realms addressed by the human sciences and by the natural sciences differ markedly in degree if not in kind; (2) the "theory" movement was guided epistemologically by…

Progress that has been made in teaching estimation is reviewed. The paper shows that although little has been done in research and development, there is a great deal of interest in developing estimation as a primary skill in school mathematics. It suggests that it is feasible to design instruction sequences in computation, measurement, and problem…

THE RATE OF INTEGRATION WILL NOT BE INCREASED UNTIL A DIFFERENT TYPE OF SCHOOL ORGANIZATION IS INTRODUCED. NO ONE LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT CAN HOPE TO SOLVE THE SCHOOL PROBLEMS OF THE SOUTH. LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL OFFICIALS AND AID SHOULD BE BROUGHT TOGETHER AS A SINGLE WORKING TEAM. THE SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT SHOULD BE PERMITTED TO RECRUIT AN…

A SOLUTION TO THE NEGRO PROBLEM DEMANDS DIFFICULT AND HEROIC DECISIONS ON THE PART OF CIVIC AND POLITICAL LEADERS AND CHANGES IN THE BEHAVIOR OF AMERICANS FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE--TEACHERS AND STUDENTS, TRADE-UNION LEADERS AND MEMBERS, AND EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES. CURRENT ACTION BEING TAKEN AND FUTURE ACTIONS WHICH NEED TO BE TAKEN ARE DISCUSSED.…

TEACHING A CLASS HOW TO READ AN ESSAY INCLUDES LISTENING, DISCUSSING, AND WRITING, IN ADDITION TO READING. IN THEIR LITERATURE COURSES, THE AUTHORS BEGIN THE PROCESS AT THE FIRST MEETING, USING EITHER THE PRESCRIBED TEXT OR DUPLICATED MATERIALS. PRELIMINARY READING BY THE CLASS IS FOLLOWED BY DISCUSSION BASED ON STUDENT QUESTIONS, ANALYSIS, AND…