Rasch model vertical equating procedures were applied to three mathematics computation tests for grades six, seven, and eight. Each level of the test was composed of 45 items in three sets of 15 items, arranged in such a way that tests for adjacent grades had two sets (30 items) in common, and the sixth and eighth grades had 15 items in common. In…

Two independent studies were conducted to investigate possible differences in General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) aptitude M resulting from the use of different test equipment (wooden vs. plastic apparatus.) As part of a ten-year longitudinal study of Vocational Development being conducted in the Department of Vocational Education at The…

The degree of nonorthogonality in a factorial design was systematically increased. Five methods of dealing with nonorthogonality were selected and applied: two were least squares solutions (Method 1 and Method 2); two were approximate solutions (the unweighted means analysis and the method of expected frequencies); and the fifth was the…

This report summarizes teacher salary information obtained from the 1968-69 salary schedules of 1,749 school systems with enrollments of 1,200 or more. The school systems represented by these data employ approximately 87% of all classroom teachers, and enroll approximately 89% of all public school pupils in the nation. For comparative purposes the…

This report describes tax revenues in fiscal year 1967 and tax legislation enacted during the calendar year 1967, for all 50 States. The amount and percent of the total for major sources of tax revenue during fiscal 1967 are listed by State as are the amount per capita and percent change in the States' total tax revenues from 1966 to 1967. Major…

This report describes tax revenues in fiscal year 1968 and tax legislation enacted during the calendar year 1968, for all 50 States. The amount and percent of the total for major sources of tax revenue during fiscal 1968 are listed by State as are the amount per capita and percent change in the States' total tax revenues from 1967 to 1968. Major…

Documents produced by international organizations attached to the United Nations sometimes create problems in their great variety of publication practices, but most have the objectives of producing information for use internationally, of improving standards and methods, and of making statistics more comparable. Generally, information is obtained…

As an outgrowth of a previous study by Roth and others, "Environmental Management Concepts--A List," ED 045 376, this study attempts to determine if there is significant correlation in the taxonomic ranking of selected environmental management concepts as reported by Roth and the ranking of these concepts by teachers of students in grades K-8 for…

TABLES ARE PRESENTED TO COMPARE MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGE ENROLLMENTS DURING 1960, 1961, AND 1963. ENROLLMENTS ARE BROKEN DOWN TO UNDERGRADUATES AND GRADUATES, AND RESULTS ARE SUMMARIZED BY STATE. DATA ARE ALSO PRESENTED BY JUNIOR COLLEGES AND 4-YEAR COLLEGES. THE DATA INDICATE THAT A GROWING PROPORTION OF STUDENTS IN THE 1961 AND 1963 SURVEYS WERE…

The study compared the relationship of the contract plan of student evaluation and a traditional type of evaluation, for changes in knowledge and attitudes during a college course in ecological relationships. The Syracuse Environmental Awareness Test was used to measure both cognitive and affective changes. In the experimental group the contract…

The results of the present study suggested that PPVT and SIT IQs are not directly comparable to the WISC-R IQs when the moderate to low correlation coefficents are considered. In addition, the SIT appears to be more comparable to the WISC-R than does either Form A or Form B of the PPVT. (Author)

The difficulties in collecting data on library inventories and expenditures are discussed first by Heron in a reply to Machlup's earlier book, and then by Machlup in a rebuttal. (LBH)

A table showing data from the Survey of Earned Doctorates cites the following: sex, citizenship, marital status, percent with bachelor's degree in same field as doctorate, planned postdoctoral study, planned postdoctoral employment, primary postdoctoral work, and region of employment after doctorate. (MLW)

A study of the use of logit analysis for examining an institution's retention of graduate students determined that when the independent variables are categorical and the dependent variables are dichotomous, logit analysis is more appropriate than discriminant analysis or multiple regression. (MSE)

The predominant learning styles of dental students in five classes were studied, along with the extent of the match or mismatch between student and faculty learning styles. Results indicate that a majority of students possess one particular learning style--concrete sequential. (Author/MLW)