The contents of this issue consist of articles concerning various facets of the teaching of reading. A guest article by Patrick Groff is entitled "Phonics Teachers: Join the Consumer Movement." Other articles focus on volunteers in public schools, the high risk child, the importance of good vision, the testing of tests, the…

The Progress Report series is intended to convey to the public a sense of the steps Hampshire College has taken since its opening in September 1970. The reports represent progress on programs planned in specific areas of concern, such as this first one on employment by faculty contract. The progression of the steps illustrates the ongoing creation…

Some educators are turning to the process of contingency management within a classroom as a short term, immediate motivator which can work for virtually every student, regardless of his/her final grade in the course. Contingency management consists of providing a set of alternatives from which those chosen by the student reward the students in…

This document suggests a management plan for replacing fixed salary schedules for teachers with a pay structure based on student productivity. The plan is more a conceptual process of attacking the problem, rather than the resolved finality of a specific plan. The instructional objectives, the accomplishment evaluation, and the subsequent amount…

Competency-based education involves the specification of instructional objectives such that the time spent by each student may vary, but achievement levels are held constant: it is the competency attained which is important. The 19 chapters in this volume present the experiences, views, and predictions of different educators with competency-based…

This document presents a systematic approach to diagnostic pretesting that can be used for any media of instructional technology, but that is especially useful in film and television production. This approach represents a rational basis for decisionmaking since feedback control is applied during the developmental and production stages. The…

This report defines the concepts and some of the problems of accountability and performance contracting with special emphasis on measurement problems in the latter. Measurement problems involve both the validity and the reliability of standardized achievement tests as a basis for reimbursing a contractor. The author suggests the use of criterion…

This volume presents conclusions and implications derived from five cities' experience with performance contracting in education: Norfolk, Virginia; Texarkana, Arkansas (with Liberty-Eylau, Texas); Gary, Indiana, Gilroy, California; and Grand Rapids, Michigan. The five case studies cover eight programs in 15 schools. While each study is treated in…

This guide was designed by the Michigan State Department to assist local school district personnel in the use of Guaranteed Performance Contracting (GPC) by providing a framework of suggested procedures. (CK)

The attitudes of State legislative education committee chairmen concerning possible changes in the financing and governance of education were surveyed. The chairmen provided comments on the deficiencies in federal, State, and local revenue sources; discussed problems of governance; gave their opinions on educational innovations and program…

Containing articles recently published in issues of "Educational Technology" magazine, this volume in the review series centers on performance objectives in education. Topics covered in the articles include models for instructional objectives, behavioral objectives specification and uses, teacher roles and attitudes, educational accountability,…

This report summarizes the management support activities of Education Turnkey Systems, Inc. for the O.E.O. Performance Incentive Remedial Education Experiment. Included are sections on the implementation, the monitoring, and the implications of this experiment that tested performance contracting as a technique of instruction in public school…

The first in a series of working notes about the cost of the operation and maintenance of New York City Board of Education school buildings, this report presents the objectives of the full cost analysis, describes the complex task of analyzing the cost of the operation and the maintenance of school buildings, and explains the thrust and method of…

This paper describes the prison education program established by Hagerstown Junior College (HJC) at the Maryland Correctional Training Center (MCTC). Although the first courses were offered at MCTC in 1969, it was not until late 1969 that cooperatively prepared guidelines were adopted by HJC and MCTC. An inmate screening committee, on which both…

Describes a residential school program which emphasizes a behavioral orientation, enabling adults to increase their consistency and individualization for behaviorally disordered children. Implications for child care work outside the classroom setting are drawn. (ED)