Describes issues related to the Ontario educational reform legislation, a significant aspect of which is a new student-focused funding model. The stated purpose of the new funding model is to ensure that education funding operates in a "fair and nondiscriminatory manner" across the province. Asserts that the legislation does not satisfactorily…

Describes student-performance data-analysis system developed by the Hueneme School District in Port Hueneme, California, to meet state and federal accountability requirements. Tracks student-achievement data from four measures into database: Districtwide assessment, report cards, SAT-9 results, a California achievement test, and comprehensive…

Presents a socio-historical analysis of teacher education in England tracing the changing agents and nature of control of the enterprise since its inception. Illustrates the evolution from church through university, to state control, and the limited role of the teaching and teacher education professions in each. Includes references. (CMK)

Examines the cost effectiveness of New Jersey's tuition reimbursement plan for 10-month private school programs for handicapped students, using multiple regression techniques. The study found accounting inconsistencies correctable by organizing an actual cost model that requires pricing of program needs, system cost projections, and a site-based…

Corporate America is changing the shape of school-business partnership. Offers tips to board members on how to open the door to two-way partnerships with the business community. Summarizes a number of existing programs and describes a proposed computerized information system--"Wordlink"--that reports student achievements to employers. (MLF)

Educators embarking on school-based management/participative decision-making report changes in relationships not only between administrators and teachers and between management and unions, but also between teachers and their union. Decentralization means teacher empowerment at the local level, collaborative bargaining, union involvement with…

Reports the first phase of a project to develop an instrument for student evaluation of college faculty that can be applied across the curriculum. Suggests that the evaluation process should begin by developing a model of teaching effectiveness. Outlines a procedure for developing an instrument to measure teaching effectiveness. (MM)

The danger of using student performance as a basis for budgeting and program accountability is that it promises accountability through simple measurement of complex realities, with qualitative measures overwhelming less precise qualitative measures. (MSE)

Standardized tests which measure a narrow span of intelligence unfairly penalize students whose strengths don't fall within that range. Three kinds of intelligence (analytical, creative, practical) are discussed. Sternberg's Triarchic Abilities Test, currently being test-piloted, assesses all three aspects of intelligence in contrast to current…

Compares the histories of educational and business management. Suggests that both groups must address accountability, productivity, and innovation. Describes four emphases of reform in California: (1) restructuring schools and services to meet needs, (2) keeping decision making local, (3) building a new workplace in education, and (4) paying now…

School districts are being asked to provide expanded variety and quality of educational services with fewer tax dollars. Discusses the search for accountability, productivity, quality, and equity in education and alerts school business officials to the problems and conflicts inherent in such a search. (MLF)

Worker competence is defined and basic guidelines for competence-centered supervision are outlined. Procedures of evaluating the supervisee's competence are suggested. The processes of competence-centered supervision are analyzed, and the usefulness of a unifying scheme of competence for practice, supervision, and education in social work is…

Argues that librarians need to be concerned with cost analysis of library functions and services because, in the allocation of resources, decision makers will favor library managers who demonstrate understanding of the relationships between costs and productive outputs. Factors that should be included in a reliable scheme for cost accounting are…

Examines the effects of the victim-perpetrator relationship (first date acquaintance, stranger, or steady dating partner) on college students' attributions of responsibility for forced intercourse and unwanted propositions. Investigates both behavioral and characterological components of victim and rapist responsibility. Discusses sex differences…

Offers advice drawn from the experiences of Florida Community College at Jacksonville to assist other colleges in reducing the financial risks of performance contracting. Explains the differences between performance contracts and grants, discusses the issues of flexibility and accountability, and offers guidelines on proposal development and…