This edited collection brings together a selection of papers originally presented at the Legal Services Research Centre's tenth anniversary international research conference. The papers, drawn from three continents, provide an insight into how people experience the law, the extent of impact of legal problems, the reasons people sometimes take no action to resolve problems, methods of service delivery, the integration of legal and health services and forms of funding legal services.

African countries need to improve the performance of their public sectors if they are going to achieve their goals of growth, poverty reduction, and the provision of better services for their citizens. Between 1995 and 2004, the Bank provided some $9 billion in lending and close to $900 million in grants and administrative budget to support public sector capacity building in Africa. This evaluation assesses Bank support for public sector capacity building in Africa over these past 10 years. It is based on six country studies, assessments of country strategies and operations across the Region, and review of the work of the World Bank Institute, the Institutional Development Fund, and the Bank-supported African Capacity Building Foundation.

This book examines the process of assessing if and how well students and library users are learning from the resources the library provides. The book provides data collection tools for measuring both learning and research outcomes that link outcomes to user satisfaction and includes detailed examples from actual outcomes assessment programs.

States and other educational entities receiving Part B funding under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) submitted their Annual Performance Reports to the U.S. Secretary of Education on or before March 31, 2004. These reports contained information on a variety of indicators, including assessment participation and performance results for 2002-2003 state assessments. This document is a summary of the 2002-2003 state assessment information that was submitted by states in their Annual Performance Reports. It is important to recognize that the information submitted in a state's Annual Performance Report may or may not be publicly reported by the state. The National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) regularly analyzes assessment information that is publicly reported by states (see Thurlow & Wiley, 2004; Thurlow, Wiley, & Bielinski, 2003). NCEO also analyzed states' Biennial Performance Reports that included assessment data for the 2000-2001 year (Thurlow, Wiley, & Bielinski, 2002). The assessment information included in the Annual Performance Reports of regular states (n = 50) and unique states subject to IDEA requirements (n = 9; see box below for a list of unique states) is summarized in two sections in this report: (1) Participation in 2002-2003 State Assessments (see page 2); and (2) Performance on 2002-2003 State Assessments (see page 20). The information in the above sections is supported by state-by-state data in the appendices. Appendices A and B provide the participation and performance data used to create the tables and figures in this document. Appendices C and D include a summary of all of the participation and performance data states submitted in their 2002-2003 Annual Performance Reports of state assessment data.

The chapters included in this component of Assessing Media Education are intended for those who have already developed an assessment plan and identified key student learning outcomes, and who need more information on how to measure the outcomes both indirectly and directly.