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Peer reviewedO'Dell, Jerry W. – Journal of Applied Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Evaluation, Measurement Instruments, Personality Measures, Questionnaires
Price, Gary G. – 1977
This paper is one of a group that describes the research methodology for an evaluation of individually guided education (IGE) in American elementary schools. Described here are the procedures used to select the sample of schools being studied in the first phase of the evaluation. This phase was a large sample study that used structural equations…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Individualized Programs, Measurement Instruments, Program Descriptions
Download full textWark, David M. – 1968
An examination of typical situations concerning the status of a variable is followed by a discussion of the measurement and empirical problems involved in measuring current status. Arguments for more consideration of variability, particularly individual variation, are presented. Among the problems discussed are (1) describing large samples through…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Instrumentation, Measurement Instruments, Research Design
Phenomenal Identity and Conceptual Equivalence of Measurement in Cross-National Comparative Research
Straus, Murray A. – J Marriage Fam, 1969
Paper read at the Groves Conference on the Family, Boston, Massachusetts, 1968.
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Equivalency Tests, Evaluation Criteria, Measurement Instruments
Peer reviewedWeintraub, Samuel – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Check Lists, Critical Thinking, Hypothesis Testing, Investigations
Farr, Roger, Ed.; And Others – 1976
This book includes papers related to reading research from the International Reading Association's 1974 preconvention institute on research held in New Orleans. The introduction by Samuel Weintraub and Roger Farr discusses such questions as: Where does reading research need to be improved? What is research? What areas of reading research demand…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Improvement, Linguistics, Measurement Instruments
Peer reviewedEdgington, Eugene S. – Journal of Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Computers, Correlation, Measurement Instruments
Willower, Donald J. – Studies in Educational Administration and Organization, 1978
In this essay, inquiry concerning school organizations is likened to a hunt and some "hunting stories" are told. The stories deal with two areas of inquiry related to pupil control. One area is concerned with the instruments that serve as operational definitions or measures in the author's pupil control research. The other was concerned with a…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Discipline, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Escotet, Miguel A. – 1973
The comparative approach in education involves the cross-cultural method. A lack of clear and precise scientific research is one of the most serious problems in the study of cultures. This study investigates the cross-cultural method in education as a part of the behavioral sciences. The first part of the paper describes the early developments in…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Research
Granville, Arthur C.; Love, John M. – 1977
This brief report summarizes the analysis and conclusions presented in detail in Interim Report VI regarding the feasibility of conducting a longitudinal study of Project Developmental Continuity (PDC). This project is a Head Start demonstration program aimed at providing educational and developmental continuity between children's Head Start and…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Demonstration Programs, Early Childhood Education, Feasibility Studies
Miles, Matthew B. – 1978
This document contains chapters 4 and 5 of the final report of the Project on Social Architecture in Education. Chapter 4 provides a brief overview of the activities of the project in order to sketch the context out of which the case studies, conclusions, and learning materials emerged. Chapter 5 discusses and evaluates six major strands of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Concept Formation, Educational Environment, Educational Improvement
Staley, Frederick A. – 1979
A model for research and evaluation in outdoor education is presented in this paper which includes a bibliography of representative research in outdoor, experiential education. The model stresses close interaction between program designers and evaluators and rests on the premise that the strength of outdoor education--interaction between people,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adventure Education, Cerebral Dominance, Definitions
