To help ameliorate the adverse effects of reduction in force (RIF), school districts facing declining enrollments should develop and adopt RIF policies before they are needed. School district officials should compile up-to-date enrollment projections and anticipated staff needs. The board of education should take care to inform the public and to…

Papers include: the role of institutional research in the managerial revolution in higher education (W. Hugh Stickler); student studies in the institutional research program (W. Hugh Stickler); needed research studies in college admissions (Cameron Fincher); an introduction to budgetary analysis (James L. Miller); future enrollments and planning…

Summary data of all current grade point ratios earned by students are presented by program and grade distributions are presented by subject areas for the seven community colleges of Hawaii for fall 1977. Overall, the average grade assigned was the same as fall 1976 at 2.8 with liberal arts students averaging 2.82 and vocational students 2.77. The…

The annotated bibliography is intended to inform those concerned with personnel guidance, recruiting, and hiring in industry, research, education, and government about the available publications relating to the employment of Black, Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and American Indian engineers. To facilitate its usefulness, the bibliography is…

Educators are increasingly seeking information about minority women as they attempt to develop realistic, viable programs to benefit them. This paper summarizes some of the relevant data concerning the educational and economic status of Spanish speaking women. Whenever possible, ethnic variations are noted. In general, the data are divided into…

This bulletin is designed for the researcher, the doctoral or master's candidate, or teacher interested in and/or conducting research. Content is presented in five chapters. Chapter 1 (The Research Problem) discusses what research is, selecting a topic, defining and stating a problem, and identifying the type of study. Chapter 2 (The Literature…

Observer reliability and the confusability of codes, two sources of error in the collection of classroom observational data, are examined. Confusability is defined as the extent to which one code is mistakenly recorded as another code. Observational data were collected in each of 172 first grade and 171 third grade Follow Through and comparison…

The theme of this bibliography on urban services is that planning has entered a distinct new phase. It is distinguished primarily by the unusual role that technically acquired information is assuming in the political process. Another characteristic of the new phase is the tendency to rely upon the most advanced knowledge of human behavior for…

A series of mini courses in the basics of management, information systems, and personnel, the workshop was developed for tribal health program managers. The workshop aimed to provide: supervisory management training which was relevant to the need of tribal health supervisors; demonstrable evidence of understanding and application of new skills;…

Systematic classroom observation instruments were used to study the relationship between student coping style and student growth in reading. Classrom behaviors were recorded in the fall and the following spring with the Coping Analysis Schedule for Educational Settings (CASES). Data were analyzed separately for two types of classroom setings:…

This document consists of data tables showing the amount of compensatory instruction received by pupils in first and third grade classes. The instruction offered included reading and/or mathematics as well as other academic subjects. Instruction received is differentiated by subject area and by location (inside or outside the classroom) within…

A "Participation Study," designed to determine the relationships among economic status, educational need and instructional services received, is described in this report. Based on data collected from 15,000 randomly selected elementary school students from across the country, compensatory education selection rates are presented for…

The extent to which Army enlistments represent a cross-section of the national male population was determined in this study of available Army enlistee data. Quantitative data from several existing sources are used, including the National Longitudinal Study (NLS) and the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. Focus of the analysis is on the…

Presenting narrative and tabular documentation of the revival of population growth in remote, rural areas and the decline of growth in urban areas, this bulletin describes the characteristics of these shifts, considers their possible causes, and suggests some of the problems and potential benefits. Specifically, this report presents the following:…

A three-part questionnaire requiring the prioritization of 93 program items under 13 identified program areas was administered to 207 Extension agents in counties from 30 States where 4-H Community Development (CD) programs were conducted through organized groups. The study was designed to (1) describe and analyze the 4-H/CD programs conducted by…