In the wake of the Spellings Commission, critical choices need to be made about how to refashion institutional assessment practices to respond to new accountability demands, without destroying the essence of accountability as a process of continuous improvement. This article begins with a brief description of the history of assessment, with…

Multicultural education has been through many changes and controversies in the past 3 decades. During this time a number of multicultural approaches and materials have been developed. Some address the educational needs of students who experience cultural gaps between home and school and/or are the targets of the discrimination, others focus on…

A look at The London Education Classification, based on facet analysis, and has also been used as the basis for a thesaurus which was the English contribution to the multilingual thesaurus compiled for the EUDISED project of the Council of Europe. (Author)

A form used for collecting information as part of a research study on the Tests of General Educational Development is presented. (CK)

Historical review of the development and dissemination of ordinary-language algorithms. (STS)

Early analysis sought to identify tasks while recent techniques focus upon analysis of the content of tasks and are more prescriptive. Examples of such analysis appropriate to sequential tasks, one behavior chain task and one algorithm task, are presented to illustrate the prescriptive function of content analysis. (Author)

A survey of the development of instructional systems in the Soviet Union. (Editor)

Contributions to education made by Napoleon, Pestalozzi; and Fichte are discussed. (DB)

Discusses how transnational corporations might contribute to various forms of education in developing countries and describes measures states should take to encourage their receiving benefits. (Author/RH)

Traces the development of instructional technology over the past quarter century, and expresses the need for a single knowledge base, something definitive on which all in the field can agree. (RAO)

Analyzes the educational implications of the "no-comparison message" that is present in almost all of the publicity material produced by New Zealand-based agencies working in the area of aid and development. Calls for a radical reorientation of the messages being promoted and actions undertaken. Contains 20 references. (AMA)

The basic question of this essay is what motivates a person to act on behalf of the ethical good Critical theorists such as Max Horkheimer, Paulo Freire, and Sharon Welch have proposed the educational development of critical rationality as the answer to this question, with Freire adding the notion of love and Welch adding the notion of dangerous…

Since the days when the country was dotted with one-room schoolhouses, many changes have taken place in school governance and management. In 1940, there were over 117,000 public school districts in the United States. In 2000, there were fewer than 15,000, even though the student population of the country had doubled in that time. While school…