A comprehensive plan for accountability in elementary and secondary schools is described. The primary purpose of the accountability system is to promote student development. During the first phase of accountability, an assessment is made of student performance. Results can be expressed in terms of both the percentage of students scoring below…

The author presents a dynamic case for a new, highly demanding, total collaboration among those involved in the education enterprise--from beginning to end. His ideas on educational reform challenge teachers to pursue academic freedom and to accept responsibility for demonstrating that their planning, teaching, methodology, and purposes have…

The need for competent formal evaluation programs, particularly for new federally assisted programs, is expressed. Problems in defining educational evaluation and its requirements, in designing such evaluations, and 3 possible sources of faulty conceptual bases for evaluations, are presented. An attempt is made to define evaluation in general, to…

Approximately 120 published pre-school and Kindergarten tests (including over 630 subtests with separately normed scores) were evaluated through the MEAN test evaluation procedure which reflects four main areas of concern: measurement validity, examinee appropriateness, administrative usability, and normed technical excellence. Evaluation results…

This document reports the activities of a workshop to describe and implement a planning, programing, budgeting system (PPBS) in the Beverly Hills Unified School District. During the workshop, the literature and the legal provisions were reviewed, the initial planning was accomplished, the program structured, and the goals identified. Further…

Members of the American Vocational Association and the American Association of Junior Colleges along with Congressional and Department of Health, Education, and Welfare staff members and resource persons, attended a 3-day seminar to probe national policy and federal programs as they affect occupational education. Seminar activities included major…

The early 70's will see federal programs in transition as the new administration attempts to redesign health, education, and welfare. However, new organization and school structures do not necessarily mean that there will be new instructional programs. It is the educational personnel who must change and direct changes in the learning processes. If…

Approximately 225 citations of books, journal articles, and conference proceedings dealing with accountability are listed. The bibliography is subdivided into twelve categories--general, technical assistance, needs assessment, management systems, change strategies, performance objectives, performance budgeting, staff development, comprehensive…

This document on course goals in physical education is one part of a critique series dealing with the development and evaluation of course goals in six subject matter areas for grades K-12. The series provides an initial pool of course-level goals that are expected to be of considerable value in assisting educators with goal definition related to…

Educational accountability is defined as "a condition of being accountable for the results . . . achieved in the elementary and secondary schools." Goals are basic to the accountability process. The effectiveness and efficiency of education are basically the responsibility of educators. The manner through which human and material resources are…

A number of documents will be produced over the next two years in the seven States involved in the Cooperative Accountability Project to assist local school districts and State education agencies in performing their duties more effectively: legislative enactments in accountability from Wisconsin; criterion standards from Florida; accountability…

The dilemma articulated in small group and en masse discussions produced the theme, "Through a Glass, Darkly," for the 1971-1972 edition of "Classroom Practices." This document is a collection of essays espousing various methods of teaching English. One predominant concern of all English teachers is the issue of priorities in education. English…

This publication is the second issue of the quarterly bulletin published by the Association of Departments and Administrators in Speech Communication (ADASC), and contains the proceedings of the organization's first annual seminar in July 1972. Part I deals with current trends in speech communication on the graduate, undergraduate, and community…

Two implicit mandates are posited as fundamental to the consideration of any successful evaluation procedure by every instructor in the basic speech course. First, a clear philosophical position must be taken for guiding both the course objectives and the evaluation techniques. Second, a successful method for executing the philosophical position…

The papers in this report fall into three focus areas: (1) new goals and objectives for educational institutions, with a stress on normative analysis of public policy alternatives and a reexamination of prior assumptions on which research is based; (2) the political education of youth, with a particular examination of directions in research on…