Presented is a description and copy of a test manual developed to include items in the test on the basis of children's performance; each item correlated highly with performance on an external criterion. The external criterion was the Individual Competency Measures of the elementary science program Science - A Process Approach (SAPA). The test…

When attempts are made to utilize the procedures generally accepted in evaluation to look at something as vague as the term "exercise", confusion becomes compounded exponentially. It is important that the fundamental elements of movement, the laws of motion, and the basic movement of skills be taught to everyone. If there is a need to know what…

The third party evaluation examines the activities of the 1974-75 school year. Results of the evaluation are organized around four major areas of interest: student self-concept, career awareness, student attitudes toward career development, and teacher use of career education resources. Evaluation instruments used with the students were…

An earlier report on the progress of Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) is brought up to date with summaries of known materials dealing with several aspects of IPI. Part 1 of the report provides a general description and findings of IPI to date. Part 2 provides specific subject description and reviews in abstract format and formative and…

A three-month summary of the production and programing activities of the Children's Television Workshop, producer of Sesame Street and The Electric Company, is presented. Special programing for the mentally retarded and for ethnic groups, ongoing research efforts, and community support activities are summarized. Projected budget figures from…

This paper schematizes large-scale educational research and development (R&D) as a progression of operations and presents a perspective for evaluating those operations and their outputs. Most perspectives thus far presented for evaluation of educational R&D are oriented to small-scale operations and modest products. Prevailing views of formative…

Because of the need for a system designed to continuously evaluate State and local programs of occupational education relative to the relevancy of educational training and accountability of funds, the Illinois Three Phase System for Statewide Evaluation of Occupational Programs was formulated to evaluate both program product and program process…

The lack of agreement among professionals on the objectives or content appropriate for courses about the mass media prompted the development, validation, and ranking of a collection of behavioral objectives for instruction about mass communications. Following the initial steps in Ralph Tyler's "rationale" for curriculum development, a pool of 120…

A compilation of validated and non-validated instruments and evaluation strategies is presented. These are designed to elicit data regarding: 1) the sources of information utilized concerning the evaluation of instructional materials; and 2) categories or classifications of different types of evaluation activities employed in assessing the…

Although the "Don't Know" (DK) option has received telling criticism in maximum performance summative tests, its potential use in formative evaluation was considered and judged to be more promising. The pretest of an instructional module was administered with DK options. Examinees were then required to answer each question to which they had…

A plan for educational assessment is presented which focuses upon three interdependent aspects of a management control system: input, process, and output. Input encompasses the provision, allocation, and assignment of resources, both human and material; process concerns the application and utilization of these resources in ways that will produce…

A complete mathematics testing program, involving diagnosis, prescription, and implementation, was developed by the Committee of Low-Achievers in Mathematics, Denver Area (COLAMDA), for use with low achievers in grades 7-12. A complete set of performance objectives serves as the course outline. Seventy-nine pretests and post-tests, covering whole…

This research conducted at the U.S. Naval Academy as part of a total effort to design a multi-media physics course, collected data on the learning materials used in Fall 1969, investigated the technical characteristics of the criterion-referenced test items used, and studied student preferences for the alternative study approaches. The ultimate…

Validation in curriculum development is the "check-and-balance" dimension of any instructional system, in the broadest sense almost synonymous with evaluation and accountability. This paper relates validation to individual, formative, and summative evaluation. Validation measures to be applied to instructional systems are outlined according to a…

As part of the Phase II report of the Illinois Occupational Curriculum Project, this document focuses on the structuring of a model for occupational curriculum development and evaluation. Thus, a questionnaire was developed to identify: (1) the tasks and various activities within the institutions, (2) some of the key curriculum changes that have…