Beginning in fall 1985, John Wood Community College (JWCC) is offering its students a guarantee that courses taken at the college will transfer to other institutions or the tuition paid by the student will be refunded. Each student applying for the Credit Transfer Guarantee must meet with a JWCC counselor. The student is responsible for indicating…

Two papers on performance indicators are presented: (1) "Quality Control in Education: The Use of Performance Indicators," by Ernest Theodossin, and (2) "Developing and Using a Performance Indicator Instrument," by Theodossin and Craig Thomson. The first paper looks at the relationship between colleges and the manufacturing…

To help policymakers plan for higher quality education despite increased productivity demands and decreased financial support, this paper briefly reviews trends and issues related to three important areas: school size, grade level organization, and school management practices. Research has yet to discover the perfect school size. Arguments are…

Past and current developments in academic program review and future prospects are considered, along with seven myths about the adoption and use of program review in higher education. Antecedents of program review include: the development of specialized study programs, the emergence of regional and specialized accreditation and efforts to assess…

An expanded program review process that includes qualitative, ethnographic, retrospective, and subjective data is described. At the University of Kansas, qualitative indicators were developed and methods were designed to implement them. Reviews were moved from a process of reacting to quantitative self-studies to a procedure that involved:…

Several contextual factors were investigated related to the information needs of educational administrators. In a survey of 119 administrators, the following issues were studied: (1) varying preferences for different information sources; (2) the effects on preferences for information sources of different decision or program development tasks; (3)…

Measuring the amount learned that is, the gain students make between pretests and posttests, is described as an aspect of a study to determine effective evaluation in higher education and is considered with respect to determination of course grades and educational standards. (JH)

The authors offer suggestions for planning vocational programs in area vocational schools that allow for individual student needs, time constraints of the school day/school year, priority of study units, and the arrangement of units into effective learning sequences. (EA)

While his responsibilities are growing rapidly, the superintendent's authority is shrinking. The board must tell its superintendent exactly what it is he or she is to be accountable for. (Author/WM)

One view of accountability focuses on schemes that assume that if government can get more rational information and use it in more scientific ways, the schools' performance can be improved; the other assumes that the schools' problems are less scientific than political and that clients and constituents should influence educational decisions more…

This statewide plan for higher education is based on the concepts of a rolling five-year plan, wherein planning occurs constantly five years into the future, concurrent with more immediate ongoing programs and budgeting. It is a formal, statewide planning process. The broad aim of postsecondary education in Colorado is stated: to promote and…

Presents an example of how accountability was built into a family oriented aftercare program for former mental patients by identifying populations at risk as target groups, evaluating the effect of the program on the target populations, and showing that the program had an effect not possible by already existing resources. (Author)

Various variables affecting Chicano effort and achievement in the comprehensive high schools in San Francisco in 1974 were examined. (Author/NQ)

Maintains that the Management By Objectives System, now being employed by many student personnel administrators, minimizes humaneness and maximizes alienation in many cases. Presents an alternative model for meeting demands for a systematic, industrial-business model of accountability. (Author)