This updated annotated bibliography presents articles about portfolio assessment uses collected and reviewed by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NREL) Test Center to date. Documents have been obtained from a number of sources, including consortium efforts by the Northwest Evaluation Association and the Alaska State Department of…

As the latest in a series of studies analyzing the data reported on Tennessee's school district report cards, this paper focuses on finding a common statistical treatment to examine the impact of predictor variables on dependent variables. Investigations of the 1988-89 report card data explored the relationships among eight school district…

The report details the activities of the federally-funded Multifunctional Resource Center for Bilingual Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which serves the area of Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Its mission includes provision of training and technical assistance to educators and parents…

The third year of the contract, 1993-94, was one of culminating activities for the Region F Technical Assistance Center (TAC), as well as a year for preparation for reauthorization. The TAC continued to provide assistance that focused on improving curriculum and instruction across all aspects of Chapter 1. A significant change was the increase in…

This document contains an annotated list of 95 resources about and/or for use in adult and family literacy programs. The list includes a wide variety of publications, including background reading materials, parent and teacher guides, program descriptions, reports of research projects, discussions/analysis of government policy, assessment…

Focussing on the 1991-92 academic year, this annual report for Daley College (DC) in Chicago, Illinois, provides descriptions and detailed data on exemplary programs and initiatives, DC efforts to improve educational programs, the comprehensive support services provided to students, efforts in the area of community relations, use of fiscal…

This report attempts to provide a comprehensive picture of total federal financial support for education since fiscal year 1980 when the U.S. Department of Education became an independent agency. Six detailed tables in the appendix have additional historical data for fiscal years 1965, 1970, and 1975. Assembling data on federal funds for education…

Beginning this annual report is a letter to the OCLC membership from OCLC President and Chief Executive Officer, K. Wayne Smith. Statistical data are then presented in tables and/or graphs for OCLC programs and the system's financial status for fiscal years 1990/91 and 1989/90; the growth of the OCLC Online Union Catalog from 1971-1991 in terms of…

This document summarizes the public response to the National Education Goals Panel's call for feedback on its work. Copies of the second annual "National Education Goals Report" had been sent to the Chief State School Officer in each state and territory. Twenty-seven of 55 chief officers replied to a request for their opinions of the…

Designed to answer those questions about the Arizona community colleges most frequently asked by legislators, state and external agencies, citizens, and college staff and students, this factbook offers organizational, financial, and enrollment data for the state system as a whole and individual colleges. Section I presents the State Board's…

End user training research has uncovered principles applicable to many forms of training and education. In an attempt to determine useful principles for IS (information systems) educators, the top 12 MIS (management information systems) journals were systematically reviewed to locate all of the end user training articles that were published in…

The Annenberg Rural Challenge seeks to create an effective and sustainable rural school movement that actively involves families, communities, and educators in supporting good rural schools in reciprocal relationships with their communities and local environments. Twenty-six projects, involving hundreds of schools and communities, have been…

This document presents 69 tables of pertinent statistics on education in New York State for 1990-91 and trends for earlier years. Focus is on summary tables and figures. Data, obtained from the Information Center on Education of the New York State Education Department, for elementary schools and secondary schools, higher education, professional…

This report summarizes research conducted by, or in collaboration with, the Division TEACCH (Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Communication handicapped CHildren) of the Department of Psychiatry in the University of North Carolina School of Medicine at Chapel Hill. The summaries contain bibliographic citations for published papers…

Designed to answer those questions about the Arizona community colleges most frequently asked by legislators, state and external agencies, citizens, and college staff and students, this factbook offers organizational, financial, and enrollment data for the state system as a whole and individual colleges. Section I presents the State Board's…