Social issues provide real life and motivational questions which are successful in engaging the minds of many people (especially students). When dealing with social issues, students see the importance of so-called basic concepts and skills in dealing with them. For most persons, real mind engagement rarely occurs in educational settings. One…

Unless the profession (of psychology) attends to standards for continuing education, structure and program, any move to force practitioners into undertaking continuing education activities may push them into collecting credits for attending insignificant and irrelevant programs that have no impact upon practice. (Author)

This history focuses on three main themes to examine the selective function of American college admission policies between 1870 and 1970: (1) admission policies in the context of social and institutional change; (2) the ability of higher education institutions to absorb new constituencies; and (3) the concept of selective admission, or policies…

The quality standards by which graduate programs leading to a Master's degree may be judged are presented. Major emphasis is on the Master of Arts (M.A.) and Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree programs with a few of the more widely-used professional degrees, such as Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master of Education (M.Ed.), and Master…

To study grading standards and consistency within the English department, 1600 freshmen at Rockland Community College were asked to complete a uniform exit essay at the end of English 101. After developing criteria for grading the papers, members of the department marked their own papers and one other set. Eight months later, 240 of the papers…

Demonstrates that variables that are the basis for admitting students to graduate school must have low correlations with future measures of the success of these students. The question of interest in the admissions procedure is how well the variables evaluate the applicant population rather than the selected students. (GS)

After noting recent discoveries of falsified transcripts and other collegiate athletics scandals, this paper discusses the need to maintain academic integrity in athletic programs and defends rules established by the California Commission on Athletics (COA) against charges that they are unfair to community college students. The paper first warns…

THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR IN IMPROVING EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT IS THE ANALYSIS AND SPECIFICATION OF EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES AND LEARNING OUTCOMES. THE DEFINITION OF INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES FOR THE CURRICULUM DESIGNER, TEACHER, AND STUDENT SERVES AS A GUIDE FOR ATTAINING GOALS. WHEN INFORMATION ABOUT STUDENT PERFORMANCE IS THE BASIS FOR CURRICULUM…

OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY WERE (1) TO RELATE WORK EXPERIENCES TO UNIVERSITY FACULTY MORALE, (2) TO EXPRESS MATHEMATICALLY THE RELATION BETWEEN THESE EXPERIENCES AND SELF-EXPRESSED MORALE LEVEL, (3) TO IDENTIFY THE DIMENSIONS THAT DESCRIBE THE EXPERIENCES, AND (4) TO RELATE THE EXPERIENCES TO THE DIMENSIONS. INTERVIEWS WITH 112 FACULTY MEMBERS…

The Accreditation Committee of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) surveyed 152 graduate level programs in the area of educational technology in order to determine (1) the level and thrust of current professional education programs, (2) the effect of current AECT guidelines on program development, (3) the…

Two broad messages emerge from the case of The Regents of the University of California vs. Allan Bakke: (1) there is a need for strengthening the "soft" or difficult-to-quantify data used in admissions decisions; and (2) there is a need to implement concepts of educational due process in the admissions procedure. These two exist in some…

The predictive usefulness of certain scales of the Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) may be greater than generally believed. The evaluation of one program of selection, retention and graduation of Masters-Level students determined the relationship between selection criteria and rated effectiveness. Approximately one half of the criteria…

Six experimental approaches to the problems of setting cutoff scores and choosing proper test length are briefly mentioned. Most of these methods share the premise that a test is a random sample of items, from a domain associated with a carefully specified objective. Each item is independent and is scored zero or one, with no provision for…