This article explores the different conceptions of culture and cultural process and product goals in education to show how liberal education and multicultural education are related. (DF)

The influence of selected science class attitudes and image of the science teacher on cognitive and affective outcomes was studied. Results and implications for science teachers are offered. (DF)

A survey of literature dealing with inservice training for teachers was conducted to identify the kinds of inservice education used most frequently, and most commonly stated guidelines for producing effective programs. Results are discussed. (DF)

Although school administrators hold a key position in educational improvement, strategies designed to help in the development of their knowledge and skills have not been fully examined. A review of research on administrator inservice offers a research agenda that may be followed to expand the knowledge base on this issue. (DF)

The Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study is a major study on teaching effectiveness. Findings and educational implications dealing with time, instructional processes, and classroom environment are offered. (DF)

Cloze-based evaluations of reading comprehension present room for a greater amount of subjectivity in rating reader response. A study was designed to ascertain the nature of potential subjectivity within a single-rater's ratings of cloze-based assessments of reading comprehension. (DF)

Due to funding cuts and high attrition rates, many community colleges have turned to entrance examinations as a method of guiding students to better educational choices. Research dealing with the predictive value of three major aptitude tests is explained. (DF)

The standard approach to test validity requires a realist or externalist philosophical perspective. An idealist or internalist perspective results in a radically different interpretation of validity. If reality is mind-constructed and truth is agreement, then instruments cannot stand separate from what they purport to measure. (MT)

This research examined the allocation of social class, sex, and race groups within the academic hierarchy and explored related complexities. Two nationwide surveys, conducted in 1969 and 1975, were used to examine the merit and status composition of differentially ranked professional schools. (MT)

This research proposed and tested a causal model of time-on-task as a mediating variable in the anxiety/achievement association. The study was conducted in 4 seventh-grade Chicago inner-city classrooms in 2 all-black elementary schools. A negative relationship was found between anxiety and time-on-task; a positive relationship between time-on-task…

Multiple choice questions that could logically provide two or more choices block the expression of judgment, thereby suppressing measurement of learning and failing to provide feedback to students and teachers. This study compares the effects of content identical multiple choice and multiple true false items on students' decision. (MT)

The views of teachers on evaluation practices were surveyed through interviews of or questionnaires to 228 teachers in Utah and Florida. The four practices focused on were principal visits, student reports, achievement test scores, and peer evaluations. Results are detailed and observations are made. (MT)

The author critiques parts of the report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education. He argues that the goals of national supremacy and individual gain ignore the role school could play in altering significant objective conditions of society and the ideology which justified those conditions. (MT)

Communication instructors at Texas Christian University designed and tested an electronically mediated simulation technique. Controlled simulation allows for immediate instructional feedback which maximizes learning. The system is capable of achieving experiential learning without undue loss of efficiency, and the instructor is an interactive…

A study of 61 preservice teachers in K-6 classrooms investigated the subjects' overall attitude toward mainstreaming, their confidence in their ability to work with handicapped children, and their attitude toward the role of the regular teacher in special education evaluation and placement. (MT)