Guidelines for the Appraisal of Travel-Study Tours for Secondary School Students

Abstract

Editor's Note: Each year the number of opportunities offered American young people to study and/or travel abroad becomes larger and the number of students taking advantage of these opportunities becomes greater. But not all of these opportunities are of equal quality, educationally and otherwise. Consequently, school ad ministrators receive a great many requests for advice in selecting from among the many, some well-known and established, others less well-known. Requests for advice also come to the NASSP headquarters. We were pleased, there fore, to find that the North Central Association's Commis sion on Secondary Schools had developed a set of guidelines as one way of meeting this need for advice. A need remains for individual evaluation and decision making, but we believe that the recommendations offered here can steer those operations in the right direction. We are grateful to the North Central Association for permission to reprint the guidelines.