The edited presentations of the Accountability Through Evaluation Institute are given to provide insight into some problems and solutions regarding educational accountability. Presentations include "Educational Accountability" (Lee E. Wickline); "A Scheme for Evaluation" (Robert Armstrong, Terry D. Cornell, Robert Kraner, and…

The "modern school" is sensitive to change, aggressive in its employment of instructional technology, yet totally responsive to and concerned about the individual. Student-centered learning can flourish through use of a systems approach, which can also move media and materials from their present peripheral role in education to an integral position…

Chapter one of this study of the education of minorities in the United States delineates the past record of the educational system in equating the educational levels of whites and minorities. It also sets the background of the educational system in terms of the dynamics of urban areas and the financial problems faced by school systems. Within…

With an emphasis on planning and manipulating the supply of health personnel, this report suggests a method of determining state health manpower needs within the context of uncertain demand and incomplete control over supply. Using Illinois as a case in point, the report suggests that health manpower planning, especially at the state level, should…

This final report of the Career Options Research and Development (CORD) Project reviews the original assumptions, objectives, problems, and opportunities related to training the poor for employment in the human services areas. Specific objectives of Project CORD were: (1) to test the validity and reliability of the social mobility theory, (2) to…

The National Task Bank of 547 tasks in the public welfare field was developed from tasks written by eight states and by the Social and Rehabilitation Service. This document describes the background and development of the bank and outlines the procedures used. The task bank illustrates 13 functional cagegories of data, people, and things for…

The first part of this report highlights what is required in the legislative language of statutes enacted by various States by identifying their specific characteristics in a series of tables. Discussion of these characteristics and comparisons and comments on omissions and trends are presented in the text. The second part of the report consists…

This paper discusses factors pertaining to the adaptation of vocational-technical curriculums to local school systems. A major problem is that many available curriculum materials and programs have no evidence of their validation for learning effectiveness by field-testing and feedback. Such evidence is needed by local school personnel before sound…

The Louisville Public School District is probably the only large public school district which has systematically begun change on a "systems" basis. Top school officials first made a wide-ranging assessment of the most pressing problems in the district, developed and stated their premises, and then planned two programs. The primary…

Presented in this report is an extension of the feasibility and follow-up studies on computer-assisted instruction (CAI) in the U.S. Army's Basic Electronic Training Course. The report is oriented toward demonstrating the viability of CAI coping with a large block (102 hours) of material under real-time training conditions. This evaluation is a…

The Social Service Aide Project for the training and education of paraprofessionals is a part of the Career Options Research and Development project of the Young Men's Christian Association of Chicago. These materials from the Phase II Final Report include: (1) Fourth Quarterly Progress Report (July-September 1970)," (2) "Systems…

As part of the Phase II report of the Illinois Occupational Curriculum Project (IOCP), this document summarizes the investigative activities and resulting implications of both Phase I and Phase II. Based on the review of literature, conclusions and implications were stated which included: (1) The alternative strategies for curriculum development…

This review presents an analysis of the literature concerning the growth of systems building programs in education and reports on the conclusions of numerous architects and educators that the systems-built school may well be the only cost-effective answer available to today's educational facilities needs. The terms "building systems" and "systems…

This document is an extract of EA 004 095 which reports a yearlong study of possible benefits in cost, time, and facility utilization of a systems building approach for Texas college and university construction. (Photographs on pages 7,8,9, and 13 may reproduce poorly.) (Author)

This document reports a yearlong study of possible benefits in cost, time, and facility utilization of a systems building approach for Texas college and university construction. The first part of the report deals with trends and needs in higher education and the related architectural implications. A subsequent discussion of alternative building…