In the area of business education, this pamphlet describes a course in the methods and arts of business communications, stressing oral, written, and visual proficiency in telephone techniques, letters, telegrams, telefax, posters, memos, and the interpretation of business charts and graphs. Described specifically are course guidelines, performance…

The purpose of this paper is twofold: (1) to indicate some of the major weaknesses in the design and approaches to compensatory education programs, and (2) to recommend a more appropriate evaluational design. The second purpose deals specifically with a recommended evaluational procedure; i.e., the discussion centers around an account of what…

Project PLAN* is a computer managed, individualized learning system developed by the Westinghouse Learning Corporation, and adopted in the St. Louis Public Schools. A summative evaluation of the system was performed. The use of a computer in Project PLAN* allows the teacher more time to spend with individual students and contributes toward record…

This paper deals with the question of what should be the focus of measurement in a competency-based teacher education program. Two modes for measuring teaching competency, product measurement and process measurement, are contrasted and discussed. Product measurement focuses on changes in pupil behavior brought about by the teacher while process…

This paper presents a method for the development of a rating or classification system for assessing the performance of schools within a local school system. It is designed as a tool to improve local school management and to raise the level of dialogue between school officials and the public. Since it may be misleading to compare the performance of…

This report summarizes the first-year findings of a research program which investigated the nature and extent of residential care for dependent, neglected, or disturbed children in approximately 32 institutions in Georgia. Information was collected on each institution's physical facilities, staff structure, and policies. Data were also gathered on…

This text is one of a series of three handbooks, each intended to provide busy educational executives with a brief, practical overview of one major issue or movement. This book aims at helping administrators become acquainted with the broad dimensions of the accountability problem, showing them some of the ongoing alternatives as well as those…

The purpose of this document is to provide ninth grade English teachers with a set of language arts skills objectives. Included are a domain chart, terminal objectives with supportive evidence information, and log sheets for recording coverage of objectives. Skills objectives cover nonverbal language, listening, speaking, literature/reading,…

In an overview of a very comprehensive and current trend in personnel training, that of a "competency-based" format, it is apparent that there exists certain and specific aspects of what perhaps constitutes a "total" program in competency-based methodology. These aspects are competency identification, competency organization, competency analysis,…

The report is an evaluation of the economic content and teaching strategies in United States and world history textbooks that are used in grades 11 and 12. The study, conducted by the Center for Economic Education, University of Delaware, was part of a kindergarten through grade twelve assessment of the treatment of economics in social studies…

In the last 2 years, the Education Department at Western has developed an alternative to the standard program leading to initial teaching certification. The alternative is a Clinical Program based on the ComField Elementary Teacher Education Model. The new program is operational at the six Southeast Center Schools of Seattle. Instructional…

Today's educational system is criticized for neglecting the affective components of education. This evaluation attempts to simplify the task of selecting and incorporating these affective components into an existing system of goals. The best selection of affective goals is one that is inclusive, objective and flexible. The sources used in…

The history of ability grouping, especially since 1920, is reviewed and three recent surveys on its use are described. Current data was collected from school officials in all states concerning: the grade levels at which grouping is used; the length of time it has been used; the bases on which students are assigned to groups; the number of students…

A 1968 national survey investigated the characteristics of 229 Cooperative Extension community resource development (CRD) workers, along with their perceptions of area and community problems and approaches, competencies to perform certain tasks, relationships with other development oriented agencies, and preferred criteria for evaluating programs.…

A research and development model--the Counselor Repertoire Development (CRD) System--in counselor education is proposed which would provide systematic procedures for providing trainees with a variety of empirically validated, appropriately sequenced learning experiences for the achievement of operationally defined performance objectives. The model…