Do we unconsciously make stereotyped or inaccurate assumptions about the roles of males and females and make program decisions based on stereotypes that perpetuate discrimination? Through evaluation of educational legislation regarding opportunities, rights, privileges or advantages and student limitations due to sex, this research seeks to…

How to evaluate your FFA Chapter. (HD)

Describes the institution, operation, and ultimate failure of a completely elective, ungraded minicourse system in a rural high school. (DD)

The background and meaning of the current controversy over the intrusion of the federal government into institutional accreditation is given, along with a guide to governing board actions. (LBH)

For the most part, American television has failed to provide realistic programming about our many cultural groups for children. "Rebop", a weekly half-hour Public Broadcasting System program that has been airing around the country recently, introduces children from many diverse cultural backgrounds, young American people and the stories…

Concerned with graduate-level political science instruction focusing on teaching and research rather than skills students need to survive in discipline, such as publishing. Provides summary of situation, explanation for the situation, and brief description of some educational programs. (ND)

In most cases, statistics in themselves are of interest to upper-level administrators; but the intramural director should subjectively analyze statistics and student feedback so that he/she has a basis for which to make necessary program adjustments. (MM)

Assesses the effectiveness of a short-term, but intensive physical training program with a group of adult retardates at a sheltered workshop. (Author/RK)

Describes a school mathematics curriculum, steps for its evaluation, an explanation of the mode of implementation of each step, and discusses the ways in which cooperation and systemization enhances the evaluation. (Author/RK)

The Department of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Medical Branch developed a method of presenting the didactic information in pediatrics in a series of instructional modules. Student acceptance of the modules has been very high. (LBH)

Available from: Parents Anonymous, 2810 Artesia Boulevard, Redondo Beach, California 90278.

Examines the effectiveness of competency based teacher education (CBTE) programs in terms of student achievement, acquisition of teacher competencies, and reactions toward the program. In determining the effectiveness of CBTE, it is advisable to examine each program's components and to evaluate each program in terms of its outcomes. (Author/IRT)

Provides abstracts of eight selected ERIC documents, each of which presents a model for community college program evaluation and includes a rationale and procedures for conducting the evaluation. (JG)

A transitional "pre-first-grade" program (for kindergarten "graduates" judged unready for first grade) has been operating in the Irving (Texas) Independent School District since the early 1980s. This evaluation, comparing three sets of students (participating pre-first-grade students, nonparticipating refusers who entered first…