Over 40 papers presented at an Australian conference on curriculum evaluation are included in this publication. Among the topics are: evaluation models; the relationship of reliability to the amount of observation; Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I evaluation; designing policy-oriented research; methodology in evaluating teacher behavior; effects of school systems on socioeconomic attainments; trends in evaluation; evaluator selection; student satisfaction and school environment; use of criterion-referenced tests; school-based curricula; poly-ethnic environments; alternate methods of evaluating scores for college admission; decision making; ethnographic evaluation; preservice teacher education; evaluation problems at grade 12; implications of evaluation methods; mathematics textbooks; self-perception of student teachers; open education; pupil evaluation of student teachers; children's language usage; adolescent intellectual development; historical overview; limits of intervention programs for the mentally retarded; student transition to secondary schools; Aboriginal Australians; early childhood education; and anxiety and achievement. (MH)