Describes a 6-step accountability model to guide activities aimed at achieving the common goals and performance objectives adopted by the State Board of Education and Educators. Steps include needs assessment, analysis of educational services, testing and evaluation, and recommendations. (Author/DN)

Recommended to administrators of social welfare agencies serving the blind is use of the United Way of America's Services Identification System as an effective tool for program definition and measurement. (LH)

The open letter suggests that honoraria fees for members of the National Advisory Committee on Indian Education instead be donated to a scholarship fund for Indian college students. (KM)

Discussed the role of the community college in establishing relevance in the curriculum in response to students demanding a second in education. (RK)

Discusses the role of the Home and School Visitor - School Social Worker and enumerates objectives and goals, with criteria for measuring success. (HMV)

Panels of teacher-selected classroom teachers should evaluate both faculty and administration performance. (JH)

The author describes the use of goal-oriented counseling with drug addicted clients. (EA)

Improvement of information systems to support management and planning in education is dependent on a change to a rational management style. It can be argued that this same prerequisite exists for the return of public confidence and support. (Author)

As part of a symposium that examined the utility of adapting the techniques of cost-effectiveness analysis for curriculum and program planning in higher education, this paper examines the methodology and procedures of the technique. A checklist outlines some of the problems and potential and some guidelines are suggested for cost-effectiveness…

The seven articles in this book examine the complex issues raised by new laws that affect reading instruction. The following topics are discussed: the origins of judicial activism in education; the decline in support for public education and in esteem for educators; reflected by the shift in responsibility for educational policy making; the…

Washington's recently enacted Student Learning Objectives Law demands that local districts implement a program designed to provide statewide educational accountability. The law ignores the complexity of such an implementation, providing no funding, no rewards for success, no assistance or training in developing implementation techniques, and a…

This document contains some suggestions for establishing school site councils as the first step in the school improvement process and focuses primarily on the roles and responsibility of the school site council. The council is responsible for developing a school improvement plan, continuously reviewing the implementation of the plan, assessing the…

Based on previous application of goal programming models to manpower goals planning for large organizations, this paper structures the extensions from the planning process to the operations and control aspects of the management cycle. Emphasis is on the accountability necessary to make such a system an effective management control tool. In order…

In an effort to obtain an accurate account of the evaluation processes used by learning assistance programs, a questionnaire was distributed to 231 institutions in the United States requesting information of the following types: type of program, population served, funding sources, evaluation rationale and methodology, information gained and…

Education is both a service enterprise and a product enterprise. Each view has direct bearing on the program structure that ties budget, accounting, and reporting data into classification matrices capable of computerized analysis. Service is defined as an activity or as a tangible object delivered to a specified client. An educational product is a…