Report on activities of the AACTE Committee on Performance Based Teacher Education. (MM)

There are certain dimensions that a group or group experience can be discriminated upon - in which you can make your own independent evaluations in regard to it being a plus or minus group. If you are in a field which utilizes and employs training groups then you owe it to yourself and to others to make these discriminations. (Author)

Focus in this article is on a taxonomy approach to mental retardation nursing but which could be developed for other clinical specialties as well. (Editor/MB)

Replies to Pauk's investigation, raising some questions about it and defending his own readability measure. (MD)

The authors found "team teaching a step forward in seeking objectivity in evaluation. (Author)

Presents the results of a teacher evaluation research project in Australia. (LN)

Explores some of the undesirable consequences of assuming that teacher competence can be judged in terms of pupil-teacher interaction. (JES)

System for measuring updating process in conjunction with psychological and environmental effects. (IR)

Satiric essay intended to underscore the virtues of discovery learning and educational technology when applied to science instruction and testing. (LS)

Discusses need for ranking content blocks in a hierarchy of importance in the planning of social studies curricula, especially at the departmental level. (DB)

Describes a project which was conceived to provide a vehicle for an adequate test of the utility of evaluation based on student achievement of specific program goals." (Author/AA)