One of the originators of performance contracting explains how school districts can use that concept to attack difficult educational problems and meet the increasing demand that schools be held accountable for their educational product. The author argues that what he calls "educational engineering" will guarantee a basic level of achievement in…

This paper reviews the literature on governance from 1965 to 1970. The author surveys the attitudes of those who participate in the governing process - students, faculty, administration - and illustrates how patterns of governance are undergoing change. Several innovative governance models are given along with a review of related problems, such as…

This compendious study was undertaken to consider how to deal with increasing student enrollments and decreasing higher education budgets so that students would not suffer unduly from program reductions. The study includes Part I, Perspective, considering the changing purposes and goals of higher education and recommending strategies for changes…

This paper describes the historical development of performance contracting, discusses the first performance contracting experiment, cites reactions to performance contracting, and supplies supportive data. The contents are designed to assist the New York State Board of Regents to determine policy for the State Education Department and the New York…

This book consists of six self-instructional programs to be completed individually by the reader. Topics of the programs are: current conceptions of educational evaluation; modern measurement methods; instructional supervision; a criterion-referenced strategy; constructing teaching performance tests; using teaching performance tests; and…

The organization and administration of guidance services must be person-oriented and future-directed, utilizing a systems approach for developmental planning and evaluation in order to satisfy demands for accountability in education. Focusing specifically upon systems analysis, ST-benefit analysis, computer-assisted counseling and related…

The National Assessment of Educational Progress was used as the primary model in a multistate workshop on the assessment of educational programs. One day each was devoted to the development of objectives, exercise development, sampling, administration and scoring, data analysis, and reporting and dissemination. This document concerns itself…

This report presents a model that describes the logical steps that should be implemented to maximize self-renewal in a rapidly changing social environment. The model, which uses a systematic approach to the problems of change and accountability, is designed to assist educators in the continual definition, selection, and implementation of viable…

This report encourages goal and standard setting for administrators and administrator participation in the appraisal process. The first section outlines the weaknesses of present evaluation systems. The second section, which deals with a goal-oriented system, discusses the philosophy behind the system, the standards of performance, and the…

This paper discusses the characteristics and operation of an evaluation process -- transactional evaluation. Concentrating on the effects change has on those effecting the change, transactional evaluation stresses incorporation of both protagonists and antagonists into a change-oriented team. A copy of an evaluation questionnaire is included. (DLG)

This report contains papers by various authors who examine accountability from the perspective of students, teachers, administrators, trustees, and society. The report serves to offer more clarity and dimension to the accountability concept for the administrator seeking knowledge about the emerging patterns of administrative accountability. Other…

This report, the eighth annual report of the National Advisory Council on the Education of Disadvantaged Children (NACEDC), is presented as a commentary on the previous year's administration of the programs for disadvantaged children, with recommendations for the future. NACEDC notes that 1.5 million fewer disadvantaged children are now being…

This document explores the problem of educational wastage in elementary and secondary schools of United Nations member countries. Educational wastage exists in the (1) failure of a system to provide universal education, (2) failure to recruit children into the system, (3) failure to hold children within the system, (4) failure of the system to set…

These documents (IGE booklet and accompanying mailing piece) provide information about the multiunit elementary school (MUS-E). The MUS-E is the organizational administrative component of a system of individually guided education (IGE) designed for the elementary school. The MUS-E and IGE are designed to formulate and carry out instructional…

This document contains three conference papers concerning institutional research at the community college level. Ann Bromley discusses the practical implications of institutional research. The president, administrative staff, and faculty must be involved in identification of research issues, formulation of design, and application of findings.…