Salaries and employer-paid insurance benefits for faculty members at public community colleges in Washington were compared with those of other states to provide a basis for a salary increase recommendation to the Governor and the Legislature. Salary level assessment involved comparing average salary increases to the cost of living advance as…

This study investigated the differences between different sized classes in grades four and five of Toronto schools. Teachers and students from 11 schools were assigned to 34 classes of either 16, 23, 30, or 37 students (class size could vary by 2). All students were in grade four during the study's first year and in grade five during the second…

Arranged like an encyclopedia, this book, addressed to directors and sponsors of education/training programs, as well as evaluators and those studying to become evaluators, unifies and systematizes the field of evaluation by organizing its main concepts and techniques into one volume. Researched and documented articles, contributed by recognized…

The Indiana team approached its research from the hypothesis that one's quality of life is related to the educational system and proposed to explore the relationship between Indiana's educational system and its quality of life. Because of the comprehensiveness of the term "quality of life," the team decided to limit its study to the…

Population projections developed by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 1970 to 2000, have been updated to report the latest information on fertility and mortality trends and migration within the State. Methology utilized closely resembles the cohort component procedure, with multiple regression analysis applied to historical information for…

EXPER SIM has been translated into two basic software systems: the Michigan Experimental Simulation Supervisor (MESS) and Louisville Experiment Simulation Supervisor (LESS). MESS and LESS have been programed to facilitate student interaction with the computer for research purposes. The programs contain models for several statistical analyses, and…

The report is the initial segment of a two-phase analysis of the distribution of Federal postsecondary occupational education funds in New York State. It examines the rationale behind New York's distribution of Federal funds as well as detailing the results of those administrative decisions. The document represents the first compilation of its…

Title I programming emphasis in Georgia is increasingly oriented toward basic skills. Fifty-eight percent of the total "participation units" were engaged in English reading and mathematics activities. No other activity or service received as much as 8 percent of the participation total. English reading activities accounted for 56.5…

This manual is the fifth in a series aimed at giving undergraduate students sophistication in dealing with actual research problems, and in the discovery and examination of data. It is intended as a supplement to a regular International Relations program. As a laboratory manual, it makes certain suggestions for tools and techniques. Some exercises…

Jackson County, West Virginia, a rural county which was industrialized in 1956, was reported on in 1966. Natives of the county, characterized by traditional patterns of behavior, and in-migrants, characterized by rational patterns, were compared regarding educational values and attitudes. The basic hypothesis of this study was that the in-migrants…

This report presents an investigation of three hypotheses concerning facial expressions in young children: (1) children seem to emit the same number of changes in facial expressions when they are alone as when they are in contact with another person; (2) the number of facial expressions made when children are along, compared with when they are in…

An investigation was made of the job proficiency of the graduates of an experimental job-oriented training program for Electronics Technician (X-ET). This program was designed to train lower-aptitude personnel in a relatively shorter time to assume ET duties in the fleet. The fleet performance capabilities of 51 X-ET's and a matched sample of 43…

This paper argues that to be appropriate the evaluation of teaching must occur under circumstances entirely free of the limitations which inferential statistics necessarily impose on teaching. Regardless of whether the statistical, design, and treatment assumptions required for the valid use of inferential statistics in education are met,…

Since one primary goal of the Commodity Distribution (CD) Program and the Food Stamp (FS) Program is to improve diets of low-income families, this 1969-70 study focused on whether the adequacy of a low-income family's dietary intake was improved by their participation in a food-assistance program. As stated, the adequacy of a family's dietary…

Differences exist in patterns of labor force participation of urban poor whites, blacks, Puerto Ricans, and Mexican Americans. Young unmarried blacks of both sexes, older Puerto Rican women, and Mexican American women in all age categories are less likely to participate in the labor force than are whites in the corresponding groups. Some of the…