TO SURVEY SCHOOL SYSTEM PRACTICES REGARDING STUDENT TEACHERS, A QUESTIONNAIRE WAS SENT TO 402 SCHOOL SYSTEMS ENROLLING 12,000 OR MORE PUPILS. USABLE REPLIES WERE RECEIVED FROM 266 (66 PERCENT) OF THE SYSTEMS, AND REPLIES ARE RECORDED IN TABLES, WITH SAMPLE STATEMENTS, EVALUATION SHEETS, AND LISTS OF STUDENT TEACHING GUIDES AND HANDBOOKS INCLUDED…

MOST OF THE CRITICISMS OF TRANSLATION IN SECONDARY SCHOOL LANGUAGE COURSES FOCUS ON THE SUPPOSEDLY DIFFICULT PROBLEMS OF SELECTING, USING, AND GRADING TRANSLATION TESTS AS OPPOSED TO THE OBJECTIVE TESTS GENERALLY USED BY ADVOCATES OF AUDIOLINGUALISM. BUT MOST OF THESE CRITICISMS FAIL TO RECOGNIZE THAT THE PROCESS OF LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE…

Designed to be used by preservice and in-service science teachers interested in assessing the outcomes of school science programs, this publication is aimed at helping teachers do a better job of developing tests and inventories specifically for their instructional programs and students. Material is presented in six chapters entitled: (1) Trends…

The paradox of American higher education today is that the liberal well-wisher has done more than anyone in the past decade to destroy the university. Although he imagines himself in the vanguard of progress, this guilt-ridden figure is in fact contributing to what he thinks he is opposing, turning out ever more appropriate minions of technology,…

The project discussed in this report attempts to establish, within a real school setting, a comprehensive and viable way of determining and reporting the growth and development of kindergarten and primary grade children in the public school. The project was developed by a steering committee of faculty members from the Clayton School District of…

The hypothesis of this study was that community college teachers with prior high school experience assigned grades which produced higher grade distributions than those of teachers with prior four-year college teaching experience. In addition, prior community college teaching experience and length of current teaching experience were considered as…

This paper starts from the assumption that the typical grading systems used by most American secondary schools need overhauling and discusses the implementation of an alternative student evaluation system that is individualized, noncompetitive, and nonpunitive. Most of the paper describes a performance-based, criterion-referenced student…

The professional portion of the elementary and early childhood teacher education program at the University of Florida (UF) is taken on a pass-fail basis. A student completing this program has 66 quarter hours of pass-fail credit and a letter written by a faculty member who has worked with her or him for two years. The purpose of this study was to…

The following problems in the field of essay grading have persisted: (1) low reliability of grading, (2) deciding upon elements or variables to consider, and (3) deciding on the weight to assign to each variable. Described are two aspects of a study on essay grading at the high school level in Alberta, Canada: (1) the reliability of scoring…

This booklet, one part of the Intermediate Science Curriculum Study (ISCS) Individualized Teacher Preparation modular program materials, is designed to present teachers with information concerning issues and alternatives relative to grading and reporting student progress in an individualized instructional setting. The information is presented in…

The effect of ninth-grade general mathematics students signing contracts for achievement grades on their mathematics achievement and on their attitudes toward mathematics was investigated. Four classes were used in the study; each of two teachers taught one experimental and one control class. The Test of Mathematical Skills and Concepts and The…

This study investigates the pass/fail (P/F) grading system. A sample of 154 Indiana University students was interviewed. Half of the group, 77 students, had not taken any P/F courses. Of the remaining 77 students, 42% had taken only one P/F course and most of the rest from two to five courses. Results of the student interview questionnaire…

The purpose of this study was to compare office procedures, second-year shorthand, and second-year typewriting courses which were reimbursed by provisions of the Vocational Education Act of 1963 and the Vocational Education Amendments of 1968, with nonreimbursed courses. Program components selected for the comparison were: (1) student enrollment,…

Results support the application of adaptation level theory to college grading standards, for it was found that at the institution student fields with lower ability students as compared with those with higher ability students employed less stringent grading criteria. (Author/RC)

One hundred and sixty-three undergraduate seniors rated various aspects of their first experience with a criterion referenced grading system in an educational psychology course. Chi square analyses were used to identify different attitudes between groups across semesters, sex of students, and classes of varying size. (Author/NQ)