The revised educational objectives for citizenship are presented in this booklet. (The original nine objectives are listed in ED 033 871). Brief summaries of the history and goals of the National Assessment, the procedures for developing revised educational objectives, and the main changes in the citizenship objectives precede the outline of…

The purpose of the study was to develop and evaluate a method of determining the effectiveness of individual schools in promoting student achievement in reading and arithmetic, and to investigate the relationship of sibling order and of residence in intact or broken homes on student achievement. Five hundred sixty-three sixth graders from 16…

The purpose of this paper is to provide the Director of the Office of Education Programs with an instrument with which to develop an educational data base for providing information to evaluate the education programs of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Some specific issues and questions are presented along with background information. BIA…

The assessment and diagnostic procedures of a comprehensive accountability plan were applied to several elementary schools from a large midwestern state. Pretest and posttest Word Knowledge and Reading scores from the Primary II Metropolitan Achievement Test administered in 1970-71 to third-graders were used. These data were used to compute…

The main purposes of the study were to (1) validate the goals of public education in the State and to determine the relative importance of these goals; (2) determine the extent to which these goals were being attained; (3) establish critical educational needs for the State on the basis of goal importance and extent of goal attainment; and (4)…

This report presents the findings and recommendations resulting from a study of the accreditation of 15 selected health education programs by a 13-member study commission. Section I of the report presents a summation of the basic issues and problems considered by the commission, including such issues as: (1) accountability, structure, financing,…

Evaluation of educational administrators is an outgrowth of the increasing complexity of school operations and the multiplying responsibilities of the administrators. Recent literature recommends evaluation procedures designed to measure an administrator's performance in executing specific tasks and his approximation to specific goals. Several…

This speech examines the legal aspects of the California "Stull Bill," which governs the evaluation of public school teaching and administrative personnel. The author discusses the impact of the Bill on both teacher tenure and teacher evaluation and suggests that the teacher evaluation section has far more impact than does the teacher tenure…

This study utilized linear multiple regression analysis with dummy variables to isolate one component of an educational accountability system, the contribution of the individual teacher to student achievement. Independent variables consisted of measures of each student's past academic record, the size of the class and a dummy variable to represent…

This study reports the results of a systematic inquiry to assess the extent to which consultant teams had contributed to principals' acceptance of innovation. Data were based on the Institutional Change Model developed by an Educational Professional Development Act (EPDA) project. Participants of the study were principals of 12 elementary schools.…

During 1970-71, the Select Subcommittee on Education of the House Committee on Education and Labor held 8 days of hearings on the establishment of a National Institute of Education. This document is the second of three appendixes on the hearings and contains essays by scholars who have studied the aims of education, the issues of educational…

This document describes the need for the implementation of the concept of accountability, reviews the literature on accountability, and outlines a plan for establishing accountability in the public schools of North Carolina. According to the report, the North Carolina program emphasizes accountability for accreditation and uses an accountability…

Administered by the 21-member School Community Council (SCC), the Fort Gay-Thompson Urban/Rural project attempts to involve both school personnel and community representatives in the planning of the community's educational program. The project's major goals are to develop and implement comprehensive staff training, and to combine efforts of staff…

Academic planning in higher education is strongly influenced by business management theories and practices. The author questions the usefulness of this approach because the nature of higher education differs from the nature of a profit-making business. However, rational planning to achieve efficiency is relevant if efficiency is not confined to…

This report was intended to provide a basis and rationale for the organization and development of a multi-State consortium to produce catalogs of performance objectives and criterion-referenced measures in occupational education. Information is centered around two elements which are the major concerns: (1) The accountability phenomenon and its…