Final Evaluation Report on Title III ESEA Project "Eliminating Sex Bias in Education" 1974-1975 for Special School District No. 1, Minneapolis, MinnesotaFinal Evaluation Report on Title III ESEA Project "Eliminating Sex Bias in Education" 1974-1975 for Special School District No. 1, Minneapolis, Minnesota

The goal of this project was to eliminate sex bias in education through the development of student and teacher awareness of sex bias. Four objectives were developed for the first year project: (1) the development and implementation of nonsexist curriculum in grades 4-12, (2) the development of teachers' and librarians' awareness of sexism in learning materials, (3) the development of dissemination materials and a resource center of nonsexist learning materials, and (4) the measurement of student awareness of sex bias. To meet these objectives, the project developed three elementary nonsexist units of instruction and 19 secondary nonsexist lessons which were taught in Minneapolis public and parochial schools, conducted inservice training for teachers and librarians, created a resource center of nonsexist learning materials, and developed criterion-referenced test items to measure student awareness of sex bias. Evaluation involved the monitoring of the development and administration of instruments to measure student and teacher ratings of the lessons and the validation of each lesson by two curriculum experts: inservice training sessions were evaluated by means of participant responses to surveys developed by the evaluator. The progress toward the development of the resource center was monitored, and the results of the criterion referenced testing were analyzed, item difficulties, item discrimination and test reliabilities computed. Findings indicate that the project was successful overall in meeting its objectives. (Author/RC).