The tendency to regard accountability in schools as a panacea must be avoided. A criterion-based evaluation rather than a norm-based evaluation should be used. (Author/AF)

Author does not feel that accountability is another faddish slogan and gives a few guidelines for putting it into practice. (Author/MM)

American students attending independent schools abroad have special needs with regard to getting into college in the U.S. (Editor)

Finding the readability level that challenges the child at his optimum level of instructional performance can help teachers provide for individual differences. (Author/RY)

If the physical and social structure of urban areas is to be tuned to the changing urban society, then an apparatus is needed to keep developments on target" and to evaluate alternative courses of public intervention. Suggests the development of an appropriate goal structure" as the first step. (Author/DR)

The study investigated the musical learnings on the part of students involved in choral activities in selected senior high schools. Various tests were used to determine music discrimination vocal performance. (Author/MF)

Concludes that many variables affect the effectiveness of visual illustrations in facilitating learning. (MS)

Robert Gagne...accelerated the development of instructional theory by specifying the conditions for both the establishment and the observation of eight kinds of learned behavior...Within this article two additional categories are added to Gagne's original eight...and the behavior and psychological conditions under which the behavior can be…

Discussed are three problems for clinicians to consider when using temporal integration data for diagnostic purposes with the aurally handicapped. Problems stem from evidence that integration time depends on frequency, that an individual can vary considerably on repeated measurements, and that integration time can differ with different…