Text analysis has become an important research activity in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Statistical text mining and natural language processing have been shown to be very effective for extracting useful information from medical documents. However, neither of these techniques is effective at extracting the information stored in…

The purpose of this study is to explore and describe the process of alliance creation and maintenance between U.S. institutions of higher education and enterprises in Hong Kong. The methodology is a qualitative case study in which administrators from U.S. universities offering programs in Hong Kong and administrators from organizations in Hong…

The present investigation was undertaken in order to help resolve the issue of the relative effectiveness of two classroom instructional techniques. Specifically, this investigation compared the effectiveness of the lecture method with the crossword puzzle used as a teaching device, following the reasoning of Nachman and Opochinsky (1958).…

The purpose of this study was to help determine optimum item sampling plans for use in school evaluation projects. (Author)

Paper presented in Ottawa, Ontario, October 13, 1972. (DS)

Summarizes findings of a survey of selected members of the Association for Media and Technology in Education (Canada) to identify which instructional development field techniques they utilize and the extent of their use; presents conclusions concerning instructional development's state of the art in Canada; and discusses implications for future of…

Based on a survey of 17 institutions in 14 States and the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the study is the first effort to date to evaluate and compare the impact of correctional grievance mechanisms. "Mechanism" is used in a generic sense throughout this study and maybe defined as any administrative process through which the complaints of…

This report of research findings describes a confidentiality-preserving data collection method called the Context-Determined, Rule-Generated, Pseudonym (CDRGP) technique, a specifically constructed set of questions based upon personal information known to the respondent (but to few others) which each respondent answers whenever data are gathered;…

The influence of models presenting different forms of moral behaviour in the moral judgment of children was investigated in a population of 193 children. (Editor)

This study investigated the effect of modeling procedures without direct reinforcement upon the acquisition of counseling behaviors. (Author)

Purpose of study was to investigate the leadership behavior of residence life staff members, the management styles of the organization, and their relationship to each other. (Author)

The purpose of the current research has been to establish the factorial validity and reliability of the Work Components Study in the public school system. (Author/RK)

Study involved the presentation of three lists of consistent words and three lists of inconsistent words to first graders. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of cues emphasized (visual, auditory, kinesthetic) and consistency (high, low) on the number of words learned. (Author)

This bulletin reports statistics of state universities and other institutions of higher education partially supported by the State. The topics covered in this report include: (1) Changes in courses and methods of instruction; (2) Gifts, buildings, and improvements; (3) The teaching force in State universities and other State-aided institutions of…