Following a discussion of the development and use of accreditation standards for theatre programs in colleges and universities, this document lists minimum criteria for the degrees of Bachelor of Arts in theatre, Bachelor of Arts in theatre education, Bachelor of Fine Arts in theatre, Master of Arts in theatre, Master of Fine Arts in theatre, and…

Author investigated the activities of the American Institute for Foreign Study. (Editor/RK)

Five short essays on grading systems by a professor, an associate dean, an undergraduate student, a writer-sociologist, and a graduate student. (JT)

The President of San Jose State University, noting that a major impact of collective bargaining in higher education will be in the area of academic standards, discusses the dispute over "open files," maintaining that confidentiality of peer judgement is the best way to assure candor and honesty in evaluating faculty performance. (JT)

In the specific methods of standard setting in testing, judgments about individuals being tested, contrasting groups being tested, and judgments about the test items are discussed. In judgments about individual test-takers, assumptions are presented based on the knowledge and skills the test is intended to measure, the test-takers' skills at the…

The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) Standards for the Accreditation of Teacher Education were revised to include references to multicultural education in May, 1977. To help teacher education institutions plan for and implement the standards, data on existing conditions were collected and analyzed. Information in the…

A study of associate degree programs in the United States was initiated during the 1976-77 academic year to determine the types of associate degrees offered in each state, the state's general education requirements, and the rationale for any differences in requirements that exist among degrees. State officials from a variety of state governance…

DESPITE ADVANCES MADE TOWARD THE CREATION OF A GENUINE PROFESSION, THE RESULTS OF A SURVEY OF LANGUAGE TRAINING PROGRAMS REVEAL THAT A NUMBER OF TRAINING PROBLEMS PERSIST. THE ONE OF UTMOST CONCERN IS THE ADMISSION AND RETENTION OF STUDENTS IN THE PROGRAM ON THE BASIS OF NOT ONLY THEIR SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE COMPETENCIES, BUT ALSO THEIR…

This publication is a report which deals with the effects of school characteristics on the educational process and its outcomes. Specifically, the report focuses on the educational expectations of students at age 14 and in their final year of secondary school, and attempts to replicate in 15 countries a model which considers the effects of school…

This report describes the teacher educator's search for professional identify; the implications of previous research and development efforts for teachers of speech communication; the use of instructional domains, systems approaches, and behavioral objectives in speech communication instruction; the committee recommendations and rationales arrived…

This faculty handbook includes the faculty constitution, affirmative action plan, full statement on such policies as tenure, extramural utterances, research and publication (including classified research), off campus speakers, acceptance of gifts, etc. Faculty-student relations procedures are also detailed. (JT)

"Universities," the monthly newsletter of University Professors for Academic Order, began publication in August 1970. This anthology is for the most part a compilation of representative articles printed in it from the beginning to May 1973. Taken as a whole, they delineate a theory of the traditional university much in need of articulation during…

Indicators of the quality of a nontraditional college are difficult to define since the outputs of nontraditional education differ from traditional outputs. This document assesses some of the possible indicators, including accreditation status; state charters, licenses, and approvals; the college catalogue listing of faculty and indication of…

This paper examines the relationship between the accreditation of teacher education institutions and performance-based teacher education. After a brief historical review, the author discusses four basic accreditation problems: (a) the need to allow for institutional differences; (b) the need to base decisions on substance rather than on form, (c)…

The author advances two primary reasons for the failure of the American educational system with regard to student achievement: a) the lack of clearly specified educational goals and b) the failure of schools of education to teach aspiring teachers how to teach. To remedy the situation the author suggests two different sets of measurable goals, one…