Surveyed professors of educational administration, interns in educational administration, and practicing administrators who had hosted interns, to determine the degree of consensus on criteria for evaluating administrative interns and to determine the perceived importance of affective criteria. (Author/IRT)

Presents guidelines for preparation and evaluation of career information literature for use by publishers and consumers of such literature. Guidelines form the basis for rating current literature. (Author)

Points out that evaluating group projects in media courses is an important concern. Recommends three steps: developing criteria such as objectivity, feasibility, creativity, and measurability; having each group evaluate the participation of the members; and having the class evaluate each presentation. Includes forms to facilitate carrying out…

When colleges and universities provide academic assistance, adequate counseling, and ample financial aid, open admissions students overcome initial academic deficiencies and successfully progress towards graduation. (MM)

Describes the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of a 1978 teacher evaluation study to survey and compare the evaluative operations, instruments, and standards in 10 areas in Tennessee. Reviews various theories of teacher evaluation and explains teachers reactions to the need for nationwide evaluation. (SB)

Describes an American Psychological Association survey of 14 undergraduate schools of psychology attempting to determine perceptions of the priorities used in selecting graduate students, particularly those relating to undergraduate training. Results showed psychology background to be important, with a new emphasis on field training experiences.…

In judging the teacher's performance, his or her knowledge, ability and personality must be analyzed. A short rating form is presented, for which no claim is made for mathematical accuracy, but which may be useful for arriving at an objective judgment. (IFS/WGA)

Describes a conceptual framework for the development of a management information system including performance assessment components for linking institutional goals, library performance, and library management decision making. The operational methodology required to evaluate resource allocations consistent with aggregate user needs and delineated…

Reports the findings of a study investigating why teachers assign the grades they do to student compositions, which aspects of student papers influence teachers, and which aspects influence teachers most. (DD)

The educational experiences of students result from the prescribing of resources and activities. Available resources and activities are referred to as learning alternatives. Alternatives help to promote the learning of concepts, themes, topics, and skills and to clarify values, interests, attitudes, and personal goals. (Author)

Vocational education must do more than prepare our youth for jobs that exist today. Not only might their skills be outdated by graduation, but job training does not in itself provide a complete education. Career education, properly defined, may be the answer. (Editor/RK)

This paper focuses on the impact of grade inflation on higher education. (MM)

What can be done to transform a lump of wet clay into something more than a lump of glaze-fired clay? It is at this point when forming techniques have been mastered that good design becomes most important. Discusses six criteria involved in the search for good design so that students can discover what good design is and how important it is.…

Investigates the reliability of the findings of Ovenstone and Krietman (some completed suicides have attempted suicide previously, whereas other completed suicides have no such history) with a sample of completed suicides in the United States. (Author/RK)