This booklet, the second of three dealing with educational accountability, instructs the professional staff of the school in establishing measurable objectives that will lead toward the accomplishment of the school's goals, proposing solutions, selecting the most likely solution to implement in a field test, implementing the solution in such a way…

In response both to a growing national grumbling about the need for educational accountability and to a felt need to better define and focus on district priorities, the Madison Public Schools adopted a mangement by objectives (MBO) program in 1970. It is on the basis of three years' experience with this program that this book has been written. The…

The U.S. lacks a well defined Federal policy for rural education, as those in decision making positions traditionally have represented urban and suburban interests. Much of the blame lies with those of us who are concerned with rural education, for it is our responsibility to see that policy makers are aware of and interested in the unique…

The concept of accountability in education has two primary concerns: the responsibility to provide effective educational programs and the responsibility to employ efficiently the resources allocated for this purpose. These concerns are fundamental to an evaluation procedure based on the principle of accountability. The establishment in 1967 of new…

The Quality Measurement Project of New York State, in an attempt to simplify the assessment of school effectiveness, has applied nomographic techniques to this process. Essentially a nomograph is an easy graphic method of obtaining a predicted score without the use of the original regression equation upon which it is based. In the case herein…

The history and development of city-wide testing programs in Chicago since 1936 are reviewed and placed in context with the impact on testing of Sputnik and the passage of the National Defense Education Act of 1958. Current testing problems include the time lag between events and curricular changes and new test construction, the time lag between…

The essays contained in this issue discuss some of the recent changes in the English curriculum (including the move toward accountability), the increase in the number of elective courses, and the effect of recent innovations on the future of English as a staple of the high school curriculum. Contents include "The English Curriculum: Fossil, Amoeba…

In every aspect of the educational systems of this country where inequalities are present--from the unequal distribution of economic resources to the exclusion of "exceptional children" from any educational program and the classification and misclassification of children--it has been the children of the poor who have universally borne the heaviest…

This is a study of educational accountability at Richmond Technical Institute. The primary purpose of this study was to devise a systematic method in which the institute could become more accountable, both externally to Richmond County and internally to its students. The paper examines the problems of developing an accountability model. In…

This paper describes the field implementation of a multi-level information feedback system developed in the School District of Philadelphia, discusses some of the problems involved in its implementation, and shares some of the insights gained in the process. The program, which is designed to improve the reading skills of students, is oriented…

This document argues the need for improved procedures for planning educational change. Specifically, it argues for a marketing approach which involves starting with the real needs of a particular population and planning a coordinated set of products and programs to serve those needs. The authors focus on using marketing concepts and techniques to…

This document presents the recommendations of the Montana Commission on Post-Secondary Education. Recommendations concern goals and accountability, institutional missions, governance, planning, educational policies, special subjects, tenure and staffing, health care education, Native American education, proprietary education, and financing. (MJM)

This study represents an attempt to present both sides of the behavioral objectives conflict in English and, after a discussion of the philosphical implications, to pose a suitable pedagogical compromise between the positions of the "behaviorists" and the "humanists." It is divided into three chapters: "Background…

In response to the demand for accountability in higher education, colleges have adopted business techniques of planning and management systems in the form of Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Evaluation System (PPBES). The system approach to educational administration consists of three interrelated concepts: (1) input, (2) process, and (3)…

National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) became a continuing project of the Education Commission of the States on July 1, 1969. Its primary aim is to obtain information on how well educated young people are and where the country's education problem areas lie. NAEP exercises have been constructed to provide information by 3 divisions: (1)…