This report was prepared to present a summary of the changing conditions of high schools, their students and teachers, and the financial conditions of the school districts that serve them. Its original purpose was to direct the attention of Congress to the current status of secondary schools in the United States. The report covers some current…

This monograph is a computer printout which presents a final report from an analysis of data on cooperation among 29 regional groupings in over 16,000 dyadic relationships (interactions between two nations). Regional groupings included geographic areas such as Africa and Latin America and international organizations such as the North Atlantic…

A statistical summary of enrollment at Ontario universities in 1977-78 is presented. The summary surveys data on students at all levels, from first year to doctoral, data on staff by institution (including salaries), and financial data listing support by institution, sources of revenue, and student assistance available. Among findings were that…

Data on age distributions for students enrolled in higher education institutions in Missouri for the 1978-79 school year are presented. The majority of students were within the traditional age group for college attendance (21 years of age or younger). This was especially true for the full-time undergraduate student. A substantial number of…

The Consortium on Methodology for Aggregating Data in Educational Research was designed as a collaborative effort by research methodologists from economics, education and sociology. Consortium goals were to delineate what was known about the problems associated with the analysis of data from the multiple levels (pupil, teacher/classroom, school)…

The development of a methodology to be incorporated in a comprehensive study of academic space utilization at a multicampus community college is examined. The design and implementation of the methodology for examining academic space utilization for various instructional units such as rooms, buildings, and campuses are discussed. This preliminary…

Procedures are described to conduct summative evaluations of Talents Unlimited programs. It is assumed that school counselors, administrators, or personnel minimally trained in measurement and statistics are capable of conducting the evaluation, except for doing the statistical analysis. The procedures are composed of: establishing measurable…

To meet the instructional needs of the hundreds of children who speak the Ladin and Surselvan Raeto-Romance dialects of Switzerland, spelling categories pertinent to the two dialects were established based on the spelling test concept of Rudolf Mueller. Following classic test analysis procedures, three diagnostic dictation tests (one in Ladin, two…

The data and computational procedures used by the IDEA system at Kansas State University (during the 1976-77 academic year) to interpret ratings of teacher performance are described in this technical report. The computations for each of the seven parts (evaluation, course description, students' self ratings, methods, additional questions,…

This publication is primarily designed for educational practitioners who possess little or no training in conducting mail surveys or have not kept current on the present state of the art of survey methods and techniques. It is also intended to be a checking and comparing aid to ensure that important research considerations are taken into account.…

Events of this conference on military testing centered on (1) an open panel meeting and discussion on the testing of Project 100,000 personnel (potential rejectees accepted under new standards); and (2) over two dozen papers dealing with specific aptitude and proficiency tests, a comparison of marginal and control Naval personnel on biographical…

THIS STUDY INVESTIGATED THE USE OF AUDIOVISUAL STIMULUS MATERIALS TO CREATE POSITIVE CHANGES IN THE SCHOOL-RELATED ATTITUDES OF 128 NEGRO AND 88 NON-NEGRO DISADVANTAGED JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL BOYS. EACH SUBJECT WAS INDIVIDUALLY SHOWN FOUR EXPERIMENTAL SLIDES WHICH WERE ACCOMPANIED BY INTERVIEWS WITH SIMILARLY DISADVANTAGED NEGRO YOUTHS AND A YOUNG…

Experimental educational programs emphasizing individualized instruction and motivation were conducted with classes from kindergarten through grade 6. Projects analyzed individualization and motivational procedures in mathematics, individualization in handwriting and spelling, instructional procedures in language arts for disadvantaged children,…

TAILOR is a computer program that uses the implied orders concept as the basis for computerized adaptive testing. The basic characteristics of TAILOR, which does not involve pretesting, are reviewed here and two studies of it are reported. One is a Monte Carlo simulation based on the four-parameter Birnbaum model and the other uses a matrix of…

Multiple-choice standardized achievement tests of English vocabulary and reading comprehension and of mathematics were administered to samples of 592 grade eight students and 615 grade five students. Two forms of each test unit were prepared. The control groups took forms containing items with four responses, while the experimental groups took…