The vocational education research and development (R & D) provisions in Public Law 94-482, the Education Amendments Act of 1976, are the primary focus of this commentary by the counsel and staff director of the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor.…

Teachers of business communication, along with teachers in other disciplines, must develop ways of responding to demands for faculty evaluation. The first section of this paper considers three questions relevant to any kind of faculty evaluation: To whom should a teacher be accountable? What criteria should be the touchstones for evaluation? and,…

Educational outputs are defined as the direct end products, events or conditions that result from facilitation and production processes within educational institutions. The conceptual framework for education outcomes developed by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) is explained. The basic elements of any…

School counselors are expected to perform numerous functions, provide many services and additionally be accountable for what they undertake. As a result of all the energy expended in providing services, there is an inadequacy in the counselor's own evaluation of what they do. This leads to lower quality service, innappropriate use of resources,…

Discusses the "consumerist movement" in higher education, as reflected by increasing student complaints, and the growing possibility of new state or federal regulations affecting colleges and universities. Examines some of the major sources of consumer dissatisfaction and recommends that postsecondary institutions undertake self-regulatory…

Suggests the extent to and particular ways in which urban governments and school systems are undemocratic and unresponsive to community needs. Provides an example of the general inability of minority groups to obtain their social and political goals through either protest or political bargaining. (Author/AM)

The availability of general liability insurance policies is addressed to help trustees assess the adequacy of protection provided by state or institutional indemnification provisions, or through one of the insurance policies currently available. The board of trustees' responsibility to monitor regularly the policy it may have in force or that it…

Administrative operational objectives for funding year 1981-82 are presented to inform Marshall University's administrators, faculty, and students of the direction of current management activities. Stated objectives of the administrative offices that report directly to the president and those of the Provost's Office and the administrative offices…

Presented in this continuing plan for education are listings of competencies that students enrolled in the public elementary and secondary schools of Mississippi are expected to achieve by the time a particular grade level or subject area in the field of science is completed. Included are the needs assessment, goals and priorities, objectives, and…

Minimum competency testing programs present educational decision makers with a new opportunity to reconsider some fundamental issues in American public education. First, what is the goal of our elementary and secondary educational system? In particular, one must consider the role that minimum competency testing plays in the struggle for equality…

The synthesis of historical definitions presented in this paper was designed to trace the development of the process of evaluation, showing how modern educational evaluation has evolved and identifyinq some points of confusion. The importance of the integration of evaluation into the overall educational process is emphasized. (Author/RAO)

Literature relevant to administrative evaluation in higher education was surveyed. Reasons for the increasing importance of this type of evaluation, approaches to and components of an evaluation plan, some of the problems involved in the evaluation process, and use of results are discussed. The current literature indicates that increased presure…

Educational accountability is the process of achieving expected learner outcomes through the systematic application of management and evaluation procedures. The first five steps in achieving identified learner outcomes are planning and development steps. The remaining steps are implementation steps. Special programs should improve certain…

Competency testing for either graduation from high school, or as a method for assessing whether a student should advance to a higher grade level, is the focus of this annotated bibliography. Included are annotations that relate to accountability, competency testing, program descriptions where competency testing is utilized, general testing…