Skip to main content

Effective Services for Young Children Report of a Workshop (1991) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:

Outcomes as a Tool to Provoke Systems Change
Pages 105-108

The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.


From page 105...
... An outcome-based system can provide that assurance since it embodies real consequence associated with the achievement of results. Third, because the paradigm recommended below shifts responsibility and authority closer to the students (clients, patients, participants)
Read the entire page →
From page 106...
... The National Education Goals Panel chaired by Governor Romer of Colorado is to issue an annual report card on the states. The Congress is seriously considering at least one bill that would establish a similar report card panel.
Read the entire page →
From page 107...
... If high expectation outcomes such as knowledge application, thinking, problem solving and knowledge integration are to be emphasized assessment strategies such as performance based assessment, essays, portfolios, and student projects will become more prominent. The fourth essential feature is that there must be consequence attached to a system's success or failure in achieving results with its students (clients, patients, participants)
Read the entire page →
From page 108...
... The enabling conditions in Kentucky include: prekindergarten for all disadvantaged students; a family resource center in every elementary school with 20 percent or more poor children; ungraded primary schools; a $200 million technology initiative; the fiscal capacity for one-third of the children to go to school the equivalent of year round. What I have described is an outcomes-based system.
Read the entire page →

Key Terms

  • human service
  • enabling conditions
  • expectation outcomes
  • public education
  • held accountable

  • assessment strategies
  • report card
  • staff development
  • essential features
  • generic features

  • governor romer
  • social studies
  • primary schools
  • budget decisions
  • knowledge application

  • consequence associated
  • wealth gap
  • attained foreign
  • performance based
  • initiative related

  • instructional materials
  • living studies
  • school board
  • unintended negative
  • recommended below

  • achieving results
  • school improvement
  • third essential
  • disciplinary code
  • school staffs


    • This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
    More information on Chapter Skim is available.