An Elementary and Secondary Education Title I program for the 1976-77 school year was conducted in public and parochial schools in Medford, Massachusetts. The program provided reading and language arts instruction, physical education, speech therapy, and counseling. Children in grades K-6 who scored below the fortieth percentile on school…

Four statistical methods for identifying biased test items were used with data from two ethnic groups (1,691 black and 1,794 white high school seniors). The data were responses to 150 items in five subtests including two traditional tests (reading and mathematics) and three nontraditional tests (picture number test of associative memory, letter…

This publication is the first regular report of the newly-funded Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) Project on Expanding Regional Cooperation in Graduate and Professional Education. Information about approvals terminations, and adjustments in doctoral programs from July l, 1974 to June 30, 1977 was compiled from a survey of…

The report contains a synthesis of vocational education statistics based on information submitted by the States on programs conducted under the approved State plan for vocational education in most cases for FY 1972 and FY 1973. Annual vocational education reports submitted by the States provide data on enrollments, program completions, and…

This study contrasts the distributions of indices of academic abilities and achievements of entering freshmen classes and of classes that were intact at the end of the first year of college over an eight-year period. The data reported are based on two groups of students, one comprised of all students who completed the American College Test (ACT)…

Project TALENT, a large scale, long range, longitudinal study, is designed primarily to provide insights into the characteristics and development of American adolescents. In order to compare trends in test results, a comprehensive battery of Psychological, educational, and personality measures were administered to participants in the 1960, 1970,…

This paper was intended to promote a deeper understanding of a statistical method called balancing developed by National Assessment of Educational Progress. Problems in estimating main effects when populations are disproportionate, balancing solutions to these problems, methods equivalent to balancing, interpretation of balanced results, and some…

A study was conducted of the production, size, growth, and composition of the serial and monograph literature of the social sciences, together with some comparative data from the sciences and humanities. Data on the social science serial literature was obtained by analysis of the Check List of Social Science Serials--a machine readable data base…

The primary purpose of this study was to determine if an Outward Bound experience was more effective in reducing further delinquent behavior in adjudicated delinquent adolescent boys than a traditional training school experience. One hundred and twenty adolescent delinquent boys were the subjects (60 boys selected from a reception center group and…

A statistical description of the current social and economic status of black Americans is presented in this report. The focus is on the changes which have occurred in the 1970's in population distribution, income, education, employment, family composition, health, voting, and other major aspects of life. Comparisons are made with the mid- and late…

The purpose of this City Data study was to explore sources of data outside the National Evaluation study of Follow Through to determine the usefulness of such information in the overall assessment. The two major objectives of the study were to judge the representativeness of the Project Follow Through sample and to check on the credibility of…

A series of social interaction situations representing the four emotions of happy, afraid, sad, and angry were administered to 288 American children and 288 Chinese children. Twenty-four girls and 24 boys, half from middle class families and half from disadvantaged families, were tested at six-month intervals between 3 and 6 years of age. Children…

In this sixth survey of educational television in the United States, 187 UHF-VHF educational television (ETV) stations, 27 ITFS (Instructional Television Fixed Service) systems, and 35 CCTV (closed circuit television) systems reported on their operating policies and on their programming during the week of March 9-15, 1970. The amount and kind of…

A cost benefit analysis of the Community College of Vermont revealed that (1) the proportions of State support of the total budgets for Vermont's institutions of higher education are 22.7% at UVM, 37.2% at the VSC, and 12.7% for the Community College; (2) tuition is budgeted for FY73 to generate 27% of total cost at UVM, 29.6% at the VSC, and…

This manual is a detailed guide to the "comparability requirement" and other provisions of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 which are intended to ensure that Title I programs provide compensatory education. Section I gives an overview of Title I and its comparability provision. Section II shows how to read…