This report contains a complete record of the methodology and instrumentation of the Junior High Classroom Organization Study. The purpose of the study was to delineate specific effective teacher behaviors. Included in this report are a description of the selection and training of observers, and guidelines for writing narrative descriptions,…

This teacher's manual accompanies a course on labor relations for managers of small and medium-sized towns. Seven instructional modules are included. Module 1 provides an introduction to the curriculum, including an overview of the content/course methodology and a discussion of the industrial relations function. Module 2 discusses the methodology…

This manual details a research design for the longitudinal and comparative evaluation of nursing education currently being conducted by the National Second Step Project at Sonoma State University. Chapter 1 describes the purpose, background, and context and substance of the Second Step model. Chapter 2 considers the design of a multicampus…

A model of curriculum evaluation for determining topics of inservice programs is described. Two basic assumptions are made: education is what pupils perceive is happening to them because they attend school, and education is what teachers do that influences pupils. Data for evaluation is to be collected by means of questionnaires and interviews…

The methodology used during the 2-year project involving 14 case studies of rural education improvement programs consisted of 4 sets of overlapping activities: (1) gearing up and completing the study design; (2) site visits, data collection, and case study write ups; (3) data analysis; and (4) technical assistance. The gearing up period was…

Procedures necessary for conducting facility inventories and space utilization studies for Idaho's higher education institutions are directed towards establishing a coordinated, comprehensive planning system. The specific objectives are to provide data necessary to plan intelligently for future facilities construction needs, and to provide some of…

The Teacher Behavior Questionnaire was designed to measure the nature of the organization structure of schools in terms of the behavior of teachers as observed by fellow teachers on a school staff. The development of the Questionnaire consisted of modifying the School Organizational Inventory (Punch) in several ways: each item was changed to…

This issue of the Multi-State Consortium on Performance-Based Teacher Education (PBTE) newsletter presents an examination of Florida International University's efforts over two academic years to develop and implement performance-based curricula across all of its programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Efforts were aimed at…

This module providing an introduction to research procedures is one of a set of five on evaluation and research and is part of a larger series of thirty-four modules constituting a core curriculum for use in the professional preparation of vocational educators in the areas of agricultural, business, home economics, and industrial education.…

The appendixes to the final evaluation report for FY 1974 of the Experience-Based Career Education Program at Far West School (FWS) contain the following: an audit of the final evaluation report for FY 1974, a cost-comparison study of Experience-Based Career Education replication, information about data collection, and associated survey…

The development of a technique for a computer-based content analysis of interview data is described. A preliminary version of ANACONDA (ANAlysis of CONcepts by DAta-processing) is presented, and empirical results are shown from the application of the technique by independent coders to test material. Proposed modifications and extensions of the…

The module is one of a series of eight developed to provide inservice training for administrators of career education programs. The focus of the module is on the determination of needs as a prerequisite for implementation of programs in career education. The major lesson topics are: (1) the importance of needs assessment in career education, (2)…

The data system and its branches, computerized in 1970, provide information from the following: student records file, accountancy file, an experimental-stage personnel file, and a planning-stage facilities file. The files not only cope with the university's daily management duties but also supply the French Ministry with statistics. Two types of…

The current efforts of the Association of American Medical Colleges to test the feasibility of broadening the application, utility, and scope of the cost-finding studies conducted by many academic health centers and individual schools of the health professions are examined. The current effort is an outgrowth of the existing foundations of cost…

Major policy issues are delineated and specific categories of postsecondary education data identified that are needed at the federal level to address these issues. This report constitutes a significant phase in the Common Core of Data (CCD) program which is a major new concept of the National Center for Education Statistics. CCD provides an…