This study utilized three procedures to evaluate the curriculum phase of the Teacher Education and Media (TEAM) Project of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). A questionnaire was sent to the chief institutional representatives at 810 AACTE member colleges and universities, and external and internal evaluation…

This compendium contains responses to a questionnaire sent to directors and investigators of college and university recruiting programs. The responding institutions cited the desire to make higher education accessible to those excluded either by restrictive admissions policies or financial hardship as the primary reason for recruiting minority or…

This document contains 4 papers: "A Research Base for a Diversified System of Higher Education," by T.R. McConnell, which deals with some of the many kinds of investigations necessary for designing and developing a pluralistic system of higher education; "The Structure of University Costs," by C.F. Carter, which discusses an…

The concept of performance-based teacher certification asks that criteria for certification (whether knowledge and/or behavior and/or the product of behavior) be made explicit and that students of teaching be held accountable in relation to these criteria. Central to the question of performance-based criteria is the issue of whether performance…

A comparison of faculty and student evaluation of an instructor-rating questionnaire at Northampton County Area Community College, Pennsylvania, is the subject of this report. Students and faculty members were asked to specify the relative importance of 12 given areas considered in instructor evaluation, and then to suggest scores between 10 and…

This guide is divided into the following sections: general objectives, general procedures; safety; equipment and supplies; the components of physical development (with nine specific physical characteristics); and curriculum activities. The final section contains descriptions and objectives for a number of physical activities ranging from those…

This study investigates the performance of students in a simulation correlated with selected measures of their personality, attitudes toward children and teaching, creativity, and effective reasoning in an attempt to discover variables which identify good and poor solvers of teaching problems. Thirty-six elementary education majors were…

This paper, in an attempt to develop a meaning for the term "competency" as it relates to education, begins with a brief review of the literature of competency. The authors then offer their definition: a competency is a rational performance which satisfactorily meets the objectives for a desired condition and can be categorized as (a) basic, or…

This guide provides an outline of the skills required to pass the flight test for a Private Pilot Certificate with Airplane Rating under part 61 (revised) of Federal Aviation Regulations. General procedures for flight tests are described and the following pilot operations outlined: preflight operations, airport and traffic pattern operations,…

American education reflects American society, and when society has difficulty in establishing clear objectives for itself, as it does now, education also has difficulty. Behavioral objectives and educational accountability are a result of public pressure and reflect a broad social movement originating in business, where the emphasis has…

This document presents 66 statements of generic (common to all areas, subjects, and levels) teaching competencies, culled from over 500,000 submitted by 1,400 programs in 83 Pennsylvania colleges and universities. It is warned that this is a working document presented for validation and revision and is dated by authorships prior to 1972. The 66…

This is a collection of selected articles from "DGWS (Division for Girls and Women's Sports) Archery Guides" and the "Journal of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation." Included are materials on the historical background of archery, the selection and care of equipment, methods for improving skills at all levels, safety rules, archery…

The qualifications for continuing professional education to be eligible to be a profession are spelled out. Then the efforts of the conference speakers and discussants are divided into seven major categories of testing the criteria of a model for the viability of a profession. The categories included: continuing professional education as a…

This booklet contains five papers which examine the activities, successes, and pitfalls encountered by educators who are introducing accountability techniques into instructional programs where they did not exist in the past. The papers are based on actual programs and offer possible solutions in the areas considered, which are 1) performance…

Four ideas concerning the Model Elementary Teacher Education Programs are developed in this paper: 1) the emphasis upon "performance criteria" in teacher education programs is valuable because behaviors are specified in terms of specific trainee skills; 2) the justification for specific performance criteria is shaky and there is no…