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Download full textBirckbichler, Diane W., Ed.; And Others – 1987
Selected papers from a conference on language proficiency, policy, and language teacher professionalism include: "Proficiency in Perspective in the Foreign Language Classroom" (Sally Sieloff Magnan); "Teaching Foreign Languages: Policy and the Federal Role" (Paul Simon); "Proficiency in the 'Real World' of the Professional…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Comprehension, Cultural Education, Drama
Weis, Lois, Ed.; And Others – 1989
A holistic analysis of the dropout problem is presented in this collection of essays, which critically examines a variety of research traditions. The book examines the major groups within the dropout population, factors within schools that contribute to dropping out, and the larger social and economic context within which dropping out occurs.…
Descriptors: Athletes, Black Community, Disadvantaged Environment, Disadvantaged Youth
Jaeger, Richard M.; Busch, John Christian – 1984
In this final report of an 18-month series of projects designed to investigate the validity of the General Knowledge (GK) and Communications Skills (CS) tests of the National Teacher Examinations (NTE) for North Carolina, highlights and major conclusions are summarized and appropriate standards of performance are recommended. Evidence was…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Communication Skills, Education Work Relationship, Elementary School Teachers
Wallace, Richard C., Jr. – 1983
As a testing procedure designed to link instruction and testing in a helping relationship, Monitoring Achievement in Pittsburgh (MAP) is based on four assumptions: (1) classroom teachers are the primary untapped resource in schools and should be called upon for all their professional experience and talents; (2) all testing evidence about student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Basic Skills, Demonstration Programs
King's Coll., Wilkes-Barre, PA. – 1986
An assessment model at King's College (Pennsylvania) is described, which involves redesigning the general education core curriculum with competency-based measures. The new learning plan for the core curriculum establishes graduation competencies and regular monitoring of student progress. The plan supports a value-added approach to curriculum and…
Descriptors: Alumni, College Curriculum, College Freshmen, College Transfer Students
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. Dept. of School Improvement Services. – 1986
Public Act 84-126 amended The School Code of Illinois to include a definition of schooling and a requirement that the goals for learning be identified and assessed. This document identifies state goals for language arts education in grades 3, 6, 8, 10, and 12, and includes a sample set of district level learning objectives consistent with those…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Behavioral Objectives, Communication Skills, Competency Based Education
DeMauro, Gerald E. – 1985
The Language Assessment Battery was administered to third to fifth grade limited English speaking students in New York City. Special techniques addressed two common problems in testing these populations: (1) language tests suitable for limited English speakers change their psychometric characteristics over time as the students' language ability…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Bilingual Education Programs, Cutting Scores, Elementary Education
Harkness, Suzanne C. – 1986
One hundred and three students from the 1985 graduating class of Hightstown (New Jersey) High School took New Jersey's College Basic Skills Placement Test (CBSPT) after entering two-year and four-year colleges in New Jersey. The 103, who represented the entire distribution of class ranks, rated themselves fairly accurately on their abilities in…
Descriptors: Class Rank, College Attendance, College Entrance Examinations, English Curriculum
Armenoff, Thomas C., Ed.; Horn, Jerry G., Ed. – 1982
The 1982 proceedings of the joint meeting of the Fourth Annual Kansas State University Rural and Small Schools Conference and the Kansas Community Education Association Conference contain texts of 33 papers with separate bibliographies, plus the conference agenda. Topics most discussed are curriculum development/planning, computers and…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Community Development, Curriculum Development, Declining Enrollment
Jaeger, Richard M. – 1989
Criteria for the selection of judges (evaluators) for setting item-based standards involved in tests for which cutting scores must be established are investigated. Focus is on cases in which test standards are based on specialists' judgments concerning the difficulty of test items in tests used to determine who will be awarded a diploma, admitted…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Cutting Scores, Difficulty Level, Estimation (Mathematics)
Mahoney, Susan S. – 1987
The University of Texas (UT) at Austin's credit by examination program is described. In 1985-86, credit by examination was offered in 55 subjects. Details were provided for each of 18 subject areas in which over 20 tests were administered: Biology; Chemistry; Chinese; Computer Science; Economics; Electrical Engineering; English; French; German;…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Advanced Placement, Biology, Chemistry
Bluhm, Harry P. – 1987
This book, intended for school administrators, provides a comprehensive account of how computer information systems can enable administrators at both middle and top management levels to manage the educational enterprise. It can be used as a textbook in an educational administration course emphasizing computer technology in education, an…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Computer Assisted Instruction
Henry, Sally; Omvig, Clayton P. – 1981
This handbook is intended to aid vocational education learning center coordinators in establishing and/or extending the services available in their learning centers. Following a listing of the objectives of a learning center program, various learning center operational procedures are described, including individualized student instruction,…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Advisory Committees, Educational Equipment, Educational Facilities
Westphal, Patricia B., Ed. – 1985
Selected papers from the 1985 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages include: "Research in Creativity and Its Application in the Classroom"; "Teaching Language Through Comprehension"; "The Testing of Proficiency in Listening Comprehension: Guidelines for Teaching"; "Who Should Be Asking…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, College School Cooperation, Computer Assisted Instruction
Detroit School District, United States District Court Monitoring Commission, Detroit, MI. – 1984
The Monitoring Commisssion was created in 1976 by the U.S. District Court to: (1) audit the efforts of the Detroit, Michigan public school system as it implemented a court-ordered desegregation program, (2) inform the community; and (3) advise the court. This Commission Report on the assessment process and its findings has six major sections as…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Court Role, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation
