Six criteria are presented for judging the appropriateness of materials chosen for any reading instruction program. (MJB)

The author suggests that it seems more sensible to place a greater emphasis on interpreting and applying all kinds of research rather than on encouraging the rather narrow scope of a thesis. (MJB)

Combines information gathered from questionnaire data, from field visits, from teacher interviews, from documentation, and from attending Foundation conferences, in assessing the Canada Studies Foundation. (Author/RK)

Discusses a scheme developed for the assessment of Canadian curriculum projects which involves a humanistic and artistic as well as an objective evaluative approach that encourages a reflective stance on the part of the readers of assessments resulting from it. (Editor/RK)

The writer's role in making motion pictures was evaluated from the days of silent movies to present cinema. (RK)

Explains the two theoretical perspectives--the "social pathology" and "institutional pathology" models--upon which most attempts to remedy educational inequalities have been based and examines the implications that each perspective has had in developing social and educational policy. (Author/RK)

Responsive evaluation emphasizes continually changing factors: educational issues, program observation, consideration of different values held by involved groups, and needs of the audience targeted to receive the report. Preordinate evaluation, on the other hand, emphasizes formal goals, standardized measurement instruments, and values held by the…

The consideration of space adequacy can be divided into two major areas: (1) adequacy from the point of view of the physical attributes of the space and (2) the suitability of the space for activities of the occupant. A survey method is reported with a physical analysis rating system appended. (LBH)

Attempts to provide school practitioners with a short list of very general characteristics, most of a non-technical nature, which should exist in any good evaluation study and to show how they might be applied by school personnel to judge an evaluation study being planned or conducted in their system. (Author/RK)

The good news in the Bakke case would be for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide that equal protection was denied and for the regents of the University of California to have to write a new, broader operational definition of equal protection for applicants to medical school. (Author/IRT)

Discusses types of evaluation appropriate with elementary school writing. (AA)

Possible indicators for use in monitoring individual and departmental performance in teaching and research are explored. It is proposed that a sensitive but economical system of performance indicators could ensure that the professional development of faculty and departmental and institutional planning could proceed more realistically and…

Describes a screen projector based on liquid crystal display (LCD) that duplicates the monitor of a microcomputer and may be used in group training sessions for demonstration purposes. Suggestions of what features to look for and a buyer's guide are provided. (CLB)