This report is intended to describe and analyze the present state and future needs of performance-based materials. It is limited to materials presently available for dissemination. The first section outlines the background of the project and describes the procedures for selecting, classifying, and describing the materials. The second section…

The principal hypothesis in this research is that discrepancies from a person's preferred rate of work are associated with dissatisfaction and that an inverted-U relationship exists between the discrepancies and job satisfaction. A group of 40 workers were hired especially for the study, and were trained in assembly and inspection. After a 4-day…

This paper relates the non-intellectual characteristics of medical school applicants to subsequent success in medical school. The hypotheses investigated were: (1) there is a relationship between verbal and quantitative ability and medical school achievement; (2) these ability measures are related to non-intellectual as well as intellectual…

This speech describes the management by objectives program initiated by the Office of Education and shows how the implementation of such a program in institutions and school systems could assist them to become accountable to their constituencies. A related document is EA 003 885. (JF)

This report is the result of a 20 years' study designed to discover the rate of correlation between a physician's grades in medical school and his ability in the profession after school. The findings show that very few (3%) significant correlations were found between grades and the measures of career performance. Now, however, the much harder task…

Output associated with the research and graduate training of university departments and individual faculty members is examined in the present paper. Convergence among measures of output is evaluated and the necessity for considering academic area when developing performance criteria is investigated. In addition, 2 new measures of scholarly…

Questions as to whether measurement can provide a universally applicable set of criteria for making value judgments in the social sciences are raised. Four assumptions about education, experience, reality, and value formation were identified to provide a fuller reference point for social science educators when they are viewing current standardized…

The regular malaise that manifests itself in the educational evaluation community regarding its methodology, its results, its identity, could well be caused by the difference between its philosophical assumptions and those of its clients. Educational evaluation has inherited the positivist philosophical tradition through ties to American…

Procedures for establishing school goals and objectives, after having completed the needs assessment, are discussed. A distinction is drawn between goals and objectives in that goals are general future targets, whereas learner outcome objectives are behavioral statements of all or some aspect of goal statement. Five steps in setting goals and…

Procedures for program development, to take place after needs assessment and the establishment of learner goals and objectives, are described. Three phases are involved in program development: (1) program alternatives are explored; (2) the resources necessary to implement a program are compared to the existing school resources; and (3) process…

A conference was held to set standards of admission to graduate study that were consonant with formal requirements and reflected a satisfactory minimum competence to master the content and methods of instruction. The best preparation for such tests is a good broad education. The issue of possible cultural bias in test questions had been raised,…

This speech describes some of the experiences encountered by an auditor during the audit process and the reactions of LEA and project personnel to the audit. The presentation focuses on the audit methods as viewed by an educational researcher. The discussion also attempts to point out some alternatives to the audit process and the problem areas…

This critique is concerned with the validity of three basic assumptions underlying the performance-based teacher education program. These assumptions are 1) The teaching act is the sum of performances into which it is analyzed. 2) The performance unit is a matter of indifference, i.e., the number and character of the performance unit can vary…

The 47 documents in this annotated bibliography consider the problems of measuring staff effectiveness; examine methods, approaches, and evaluation practices; and describe some current programs. The following information is presented for each document: personal or institutional author, title, place of publication, publisher, publication date,…

The perception of literary value is a function of the reader's interpretation of literary structures in relation to other creative works in that reader's repertoire and of the "deep structure" of literary imagination within the individual unconscious. This critical model suggests, therefore, that unique experiences with literature and with life…