This self-monitoring instrument,developed by Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I personnel is divided into three major areas--program development, program implementation, and program review and reporting. Each area is divided into four two-part subsections. The first part includes a series of statements that are written in such form that…

Procedures and instruments used for evaluating either or both school superintendents and boards of education were solicited from Educational Research Service's subscribing school systems, state associations of school boards, and state associations of school administrators. Sixty-eight school systems sent their formal procedures for evaluating the…

Presented is a model designed to aid school personnel in identifying gifted and talented children. In the chapter on problems and challenges of identification, the inadequacies of standardized group intelligence tests are pointed out and factors contributing to the broadening of the concept of giftedness are outlined. Stressed in chapter 2, on…

Language consists of symbols written, spoken, or thought about things, places, or feelings seen or unseen. Any block, interference, or impasse to the acquirement of symbolic language can result in a learning disability. Oral language must precede the graphic. The purpose of this handbook is to suggest practical approaches and techniques which will…

Intended for use by trainers working in community action agencies for the Office of Economic Opportunity, this manual stresses active participant involvement in the learning process. It is designed to help develop knowledge and skill in such areas as training session design, use of adult education methods, followup procedures, and the…

A set of checklists are provided to assist primary and secondary educators who are planning to build new media facilities or remodel older ones. Separate worksheets are provided for five distinct sections of the media center--the general use area, the circulation area, the administrative area, the large group instruction area, and the individual…

This measuring instrument was designed for use by school boards, advisory groups, faculty, students, and the general public in evaluating vocational and technical education programs. Desired program characteristics are presented in check list format and may be arranged along a five-point rating scale to ascertain the degree of agreement with…

This study was concerned with developing a procedure to describe a junior high school industrial arts program in a large metropolitan school district, in terms of teachers, instruction program, and facilities, and then applying the procedure to assessment of the program in the Philadelphia public schools. The study was limited to the industrial…

Results generated by peers, teachers, and unbiased observers converged in some behavioral domains and diverged in others. All three sources provided similar pictures of the relation between aggression and status, although observations of third grade boys did not yield sufficient frequencies of aggression to allow meaningful conclusions. (RH)

Categorizes motor, emotional reaction, social, and academic tasks that will enable parents to assess a child's educational readiness for school. Provides a parent self-rating scale to assess standing as a reading role model for children and a checklist to rate how conducive the home environment may be to school achievement. (NEC)

The purpose of this handbook, is to assist teachers in assessing their students in reading, regardless of the grade level or subject they teach. It is intended as a starting point on the journey to helping students become effective readers, regardless of the material they are reading. SERVE, one of the Regional Educational Laboratories, has…

With pressure to find more cost effective and less labor-intensive approaches to testing, states are seeing computer-based testing as a way to address the increasingly challenging prospect of assessing all students in a state at nearly all grades. Unfortunately, most states have not specifically considered the needs of students with disabilities.…

This book, which is intended to assist human resource professionals and line managers in the United Kingdom, is a practical guide to retaining key employees. Discussed in the introduction are the relationship between downsizing and retention, problems that retention difficulties pose for human resource management, and the effects of retention…

This study describes preliminary research efforts to examine the validity and utility of three Spanish versions of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), the most extensively used and researched rating scale of children's internalizing and externalizing emotions. The study involved: (1) identification of Spanish items that were significantly…

This bulletin discusses certain supervisory services for improvement of the professional equipment of teachers; instances of adaptations of supervision by which the results of research are utilized and teachers are interested in experimentation; illustrations of specific improvements in the approach made by supervisors toward the solution of…