Discusses measurement techniques which can provide useful data for the educator concerned with designing learning environments and associated instructional materials. (SF)

Process evaluation involves a considerable amount of informal and unscheduled reporting, but a flow diagram gives some structure and expectancy level for informal and unscheduled situations. (Author)

The process presented for monitoring the development of individualized learning materials is a basic two-component system comprised of a brief progress report form and a computer program for summarizing the responses to these forms. (Author)

Discusses a need to develop and adopt a system of documentation that is an integral part of the instructional development process. (Author)

Identifies two lines of development in art education which require immediate attention if increased media utilization and effective production and consumption of media programs are to become a reality by the year 2000. (Author)

Describes the Nominal Group process and how it allows management information staff to develop a bank of information about innovative goals of the organization or the problems. (Author)

Automated generation and scoring of repeatable tests are a practical necessity in self-paced instruction, where the demand for repetitive testing is great. (Author)

Suggests that technical terms being used in the curriculum field be defined rigorously and precisely, and attempts to specify certain characteristics of these terms. (SF)

The recent test score declines should initiate a reconsideration of basic and advanced skills, skills necessary for a rounded life, consumption, employment, leisure and political action. The importance of achievement test score declines requires a thorough consideration of these issues and questions. (JY) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt…

Hypotheses for the decline in the Scholastic Aptitude Test scores can be listed under four headings: changes in society, changes in the schools, changes in the testing population, and problems with the tests. However, it is concluded that SAT scores are still constant and reliable measures. (JY)

To shed as much light on the declining test score phenomenon as possible, pertinent American College Testing data are presented here in a succinct question and answer format. (JY)

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a project of the Educational Commission of the States, has for the past 7 years been assessing the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of groups of young Americans. NAEP collects data by age, sex, race, geographic region, size and type of community and level of parental education for several…

The author suggests that schooling currently suffers from a confusion of aims and that this confusion might adversely affect test scores. He also suggests what might be done to improve the prognosis. (JY)

The general decline in wide-range achievement and scholastic aptitude test scores over the past few years is examined with particular regards to who is taking the test and the relationship between test objectives and school objectives. (JY)

The average IQ score of young adult males rose 20 points from World War I to 1960. Among the various causes cited for the rise is the effect of the changing family environment. (JY)