Analyzes the summative profiling procedures of three vocational and technical schools in Great Britain. Reports on: (1) the linking of formative and summative profiles; (2) the choice of appropriate staff for the development process; (3) the support from superiors on this initiative; and (4) the value of outside help when time is limited. (BSR)

Analysis of professional files kept on 20 severely educationally subnormal children (2-12 years old) revealed self-contradictory justifications for school placements; damaging social stereotyping; moral evaluations of families; professional procedures involving cicularity of thought; and attempts by professionals to protect themselves from the…

The purpose of this paper is to present a model for systematic evaluation of school psychological reports that may prove useful in providing administrators, teachers, and psychologists with information on the efficacy of the reporting of student assessment methods used in the district. (BW)

Driven by growing accountability pressures, states and districts have invested in a variety of computerized systems for data storage, analysis, and reporting. As accountability policies demand access to more transparent and accurate data about every aspect of the education process, developing linkages among historically disparate systems is…

This paper provides, in summary form, a discussion of the central issues arising from an examination of State Accountability Workbooks prepared for Peer Reviews through the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and subsequent approval discussions made by ED. These issues have their genesis in requirements set forth under the No Child Left Behind Act…

Because of the large quantities of data that are involved, the computer is the most logical tool to consider in the resolution of the confusion of course numbering systems at higher education institutions. (Author/PG)

Court decisions regarding the right of individuals to privacy necessitate the development of new administrative strategies of handling confidential data. (SP)

A look at one application of videotape recordings in which records of individual students' performances in the classrooms are presented to their parents in video form. (AK)

Reprinted here, with permission of the Russell Sage Foundation, selected excerpts from Guidelines for the Collection, Maintenance, and Dissemination of Pupil Records, published in 1970. The document is the report of a work conference, convened by tehe Foundation in May 1969. (Author)

Author uses a whimsical approach in discussing the student record book, used as a weapon by many teachers. (SP)

Inclusion and processing of student data necessitates surrender of many individual privacy rights for and upon admission to college. (IR)