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Research and Development and School Change

Finding a good text for a music educator's first course in measurement is a perennial problem. Most can be divided into two broad categories: texts that seem predominantly terminal-a classroom teacher orientation; and those that seem developmental-satisfying some needs of the classroom teacher but suggesting a research orientation and further study of quantitative matters. Chase's Measurement for Educational Evaluation falls in the first category. Unfortunately, it also falls in a couple of other places. The strongest feature of this text is its nontechnical explanations of technical matters. Chase makes use of a number of good analogies based on everyday situations to develop a feel for measurement concepts. For these alone the book is a good bookshelf addition as this approach can be very helpful in explaining these principles to students with little quantitative background. Technically, however, the book has some defects. The discussion of relia-