The educational goals, as adopted formally or tentatively by the respective States, have been compiled in this single document. The goals were obtained by a survey conducted by the State Educational Accountability Repository (SEAR), a program of the Cooperative Accountability Project (CAP), administered by the State of Colorado. The predominant…

The single most important output of any school is probably the magnitude of its students' growth in academic achievement. A variety of standardized tests has been developed to measure aspects of this achievement; however, only recently have administrators attempted to use such tests to help review and make decisions about educational programs.…

The Newport-Mesa Unified School District has developed an innovative approach to the organization and administration of Pupil Personnel Services. This approach reflects the Statement of Educational Principles and the Management and Operations Principles of the District which emphasize results--from which reasonable student progress can be…

This document presents a systematic approach to diagnostic pretesting that can be used for any media of instructional technology, but that is especially useful in film and television production. This approach represents a rational basis for decisionmaking since feedback control is applied during the developmental and production stages. The…

Three propositions which may suggest a strategy for meeting the measurement needs of education are presented: (1) Educational measurement possesses enough techniques and principles to permit tackling problems for their intrinsic importance, rather than for their convenience of fit to answers we already have; (2) Measurement needs are a subset of…

The document reports an audit review made of educational activities within the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) area offices in Anadarko and Muskogee, Oklahoma; Gallup, New Mexico; Juneau, Alaska; and Phonenix, Arizona. The field work, completed in 1967, was designed to (1) compile financial information to correlate with measures of output, (2)…

This report defines the concepts and some of the problems of accountability and performance contracting with special emphasis on measurement problems in the latter. Measurement problems involve both the validity and the reliability of standardized achievement tests as a basis for reimbursing a contractor. The author suggests the use of criterion…

This paper presents a working definition of educational accountability, reasons for the accountability movement in education, events and major problems. Educational accountability is a process of setting goals, making available adequate resources to meet those goals, and conducting regular evaluation to determine if the goals are met. The reasons…

This conference on the evaluation and effectiveness of postsecondary occupational education was for the purposes of: (1) providing presentations on evaluation of postsecondary occupational education in terms of programs, faculty, and institutions, (2) providing information that would better enable participants to identify some elements for…

This guide was designed by the Michigan State Department to assist local school district personnel in the use of Guaranteed Performance Contracting (GPC) by providing a framework of suggested procedures. (CK)

Production function applications to improve the efficiency of educational programs require identification of inputs and outputs and the establishment of a data bank to provide information on input and output variables. This generalizable input identification model organizes inputs for systems analysis at various levels of inputs and provides a…

The purpose of this research was to ascertain the degree to which staff members in the Beverly Hills Unified School District were knowledgeable about the concept of accountability in public education and specifically Program Planning and Budgeting Systems (PPBS), and to obtain indicators pertaining to the climate for receptivity toward this…

This paper describes the conceptualization and operation of a modular organized-accountability teacher training program for fourteen American Indian teacher-trainees. Indian Teacher Training Program (ITTP) graduates will be prepared to teach secondary social studies in Indian schools as well as other schools. Hopefully, these teachers will be able…

This document on course goals in the social sciences 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…

Containing articles recently published in issues of "Educational Technology" magazine, this volume in the review series centers on performance objectives in education. Topics covered in the articles include models for instructional objectives, behavioral objectives specification and uses, teacher roles and attitudes, educational accountability,…