Showing papers in "Studies in Educational Evaluation in 1979"

TL;DR: In this paper, Getzels and Thelen presented a framework for the analysis of a school classroom as a unique social system and suggested that classroom climate is one of the variables which can interact with, as well as predict, both the achievements and attitudes of students.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide the reader with a knowledge of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) project and a short history of the NAEP project and its governance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify a prescriptive model which they believe is implicitly used for evaluating science departments in Scottish secondary schools, and they have attempted to demonstrate that this is an inappropriate way of evaluating these departments.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a model for curriculum evaluation which has been developed and is currently in use as part of the Physics Curriculum Development Project (PLON) of the State University of Utrecht in The Netherlands.

TL;DR: Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca as discussed by the authors argue that reasonable persons do attempt to persuade others, even when they lack "irrefutable proof" of the correctness of their contentions, and the reasonable, rational listener can be persuaded by convincing argument.

TL;DR: The evaluation of whether individuals are contributing to organizational objectives becomes essential when the objectives and the means of their attainment are subject to rapid change and therefore necessitate continuous adaptation on the part of the individual as discussed by the authors.