The single most important and anxiety-ridden decision every working parent needs to make is, "Who will care for my child?" This book offers parents information needed to make informed decisions about child care, addressing the specific issues, joys, and obstacles of the child care center. The goal of the book is to give parents a…

The lists of accredited secondary schools which are presented now for the fourth time in this bulletin are designed to meet the needs of officers charged with the admission of new students to secondary schools, colleges, universities, professional schools, especially schools of law and medicine, normal schools, etc.; of State examining and…

Peer input in the evaluation process should be viewed as an additional source of data for the instructor to use to the best advantage in terms of his course objectives, the nature of the students he is working with, and to induce further student participation in the learning process. (Author/DS)

A look at accountability as an organizational commitment, manifest in policies and procedures that lead to four types of actions. The four R's of accountability are interdependent stages of designating responsibility, conducting internal program reviews, ensuring external reviews and instituting program refinements. (Author)

To compensate for the neglect of evaluation of the quality of scholarship in accountability schemes for higher education, the author observes some relevant and irrelevant criteria for scholarship. (KM)

The School of Special Education and Rehabilitation of the University of Northern Colorado conceived, designed, and carried out this follow-up study of their graduates to obtain information concerning behavioral competencies valuable in their positions. (JA)

Research activities undertaken in the past year have focused in the following three areas: a) evaluation of graduates from the program; b) program development in public schools; c) teacher competency scale development. This article briefly describes them. (Author/JA)

This paper attempted to learn what it is that one appreciates in the process of learning about art. (RK)

This article summarizes selected information showing key aspects of the theory and application of bio-data prediction, and it provides test data supporting its opening statements concerning criteria. (Author/RK)

Examines the issue of validity and values in the scientific method of research, and suggests that researchers must continuously question the premises upon which their research is based. (SB)

The main purpose of this essay is to clarify some considerations involved in evaluation and to illustrate these with recent evaluations of aspects of the mass media. (Author)

Guidelines for selecting cases and games for basic business courses are offered to help teachers make a decision regarding their appropriateness as motivators for the students. (AG)

This study describes a process for establishing teacher criteria which includes articulating individual subjective goal orientations, interacting with others similarily involved, locating priorities among the goals, collating agreements on general goal statements, and operationalizing these through numerous specific, descriptive characteristics.…

Presented the results of a two day task force on teacher education. (RK)

Article discussed the evaluation of the conference on teacher education by the author. (RK)