In 1972, a Student Advisory Board (composed of high school students) was created in Pennsylvania. Students proposed projects in areas that concerned them, formed small committees, and through interviews with relevant or influential people, fact-finding, and assessment of available material and responses, prepared reports and recommendations. It is…

This document discusses a study of 36 level 3 exercises tried out in a single, middle-income, suburban, second-grade classroom. The following outcomes were generated for the exercises: capitalize the first letter of a sentence, correctly end sentences with periods or question marks, capitalize proper nouns, correctly use commas in dates and…

It was hypothesized in this study that those students exhibiting concrete operational intelligence, which can be measured by a standardized test of conservation, would perform adequately on a test of reading comprehension. One-hundred six first-grade students from a consolidated school system in North Central Pennsylvania were tested with a…

This article presents views of proponents and opponents to standardized tests, isolates the major weakness of testing--questionable validity--and offers several recommendations for the betterment of test development and use. Some major misuses of tests include the following: (a) tests are at times administered with no clear purpose; (b) test…

The four parts of this report are: (1) the purposes of evaluation and reporting; (2) relationship to educational philosophy and methods of teaching, including historical development, present reporting practice and criticisms of these practices, and alternatives to conventional grading; (3) the best way to report student achievement; and (4)…

This annotated bibliography covers research in the teaching of English published between July 1, 1974, and December 31, 1974. Subject headings include "Bilingual and Bidialectal Studies,""Language and Verbal Learning,""Literature, Humanities, and Media,""Teacher Education,""Testing and Evaluation,""Written and Oral Communication," and a new…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between conservation status and relational terms by means of the semantic differential. Sixty-one children classified according to Piaget's three levels of conservation development judged the relational terms "more" and "less" on concrete semantic differential…

Reported is a project designed to develop and implement a secondary school physics program that allowed for student variation in individual learning style, mathematical aptitude and topical interests. Initiated in 1967, this four-year individualized, modular program is divided into four major phases: (1) introductory and instruments, (2)…

More suitable criteria was needed to evaluate "mature" students or those over 21 who had not completed all senior matriculation requirements for admission to the University of Lethbridge. This study was designed to compare the performance of "mature" students and several groups of regularly admitted freshmen on the College…

Incorporated in the media evaluation model developed by the Computer Based Project (Syracuse, N.Y.) is a procedure whereby independent samples are used to obtain baseline responses to cognitive question items. Items from two films are intermixed and presented after showing only one of the films; thus, the sample audience responds to questions from…

Conclusions reached after three years of performance contracting experience and materials with which to judge the validity of the conclusions are presented in this overview of performance contracting. The conclusions are: (1) commercial firms are no better at teaching children than are public schools; (2) commercial firms expend as much or more…

The accuracy of estimating test means for groups of twelfth-grade students by the item-sampling technique was examined. The subjects were from 35 twelfth-grade schools participating in the National Longitudinal Study of Mathematical Abilities. Half of the students in each school were assigned to a treatment condition where they took a complete…

This article describes an experiment undertaken to analyze the learning habits of Latin students in Germany, discusses the implications therein for programed instruction, and relates the advantages of such instruction. In the experiment, students were found to confuse similar words which had been presented together in instruction (e.g.…

At the 1970 meeting of the American Educational Research Association a symposium, jointly sponsored by the National Council on Measurement in Education, was presented on the topic "Criterion-Referenced Measurement: Emerging Issues." The following papers were presented: "Instructional Technology and the Measurement of Learning Outcomes: Some…

To determine if student placement in community colleges' programs of study and courses could be improved if objective information relating to the reading requirements of each course were related to the student's measured reading ability, an investigation was carried out at Rockland Community College. The Nelson-Denny Reading Test was administered…