This report was submitted by Education Turnkey Systems, Inc. and its subcontractor, Kirschner Associates, Inc. and key University of Maryland and other consultants in response to the needs of the National Institute of Education as specified in the Request for Proposal "to develop a Design to Study Individualized Instruction, as part of a general…

The practice of analyzing all available project children in as large a group as possible is considered not to be justifiable when distinct subgroups of pupils are represented. Instead, the approach suggested here determines the test score gain a pupil achieves from the beginning to the end of the year, with all of the pupil gain scores of a single…

The purpose of this paper is to outline a rationale and procedure for surveying and mapping the ethnic composition and community characteristics for local units both in the City of Detroit and neighboring suburbs. Both educational and practical benefits are claimed for this project. Data will be collected for a small section of the city. Generally…

Part 1 focuses on the following administrative provisions: (1) general aspects of administration, (2) fiscal control and fund accounting procedures, (3) State vocational education programs, (4) vocational education programs for the disadvantaged, (5) vocational education research and personnel training, (6) exemplary programs and projects, (7)…

Unemployment increased substantially among all youth in the labor force except college graduates in the year ending in October, 1974. Data were collected as part of the Current Population Survey and relate to persons 16 to 24 years of age in the civilian noninstitutional population. Estimates on the number of graduates are based on a sample, and…

Evaluative data gathered in villages that received educational broadcasts during the Educational Satellite Communications Demonstration (ESCD) in rural Alaska are summarized, and policy conclusions are drawn. Data sources included interviews with local residents, logs and time records, and conference transcripts. Conclusions are presented with…

The development of microform-based information storage and retrieval systems is discussed, and the comparative advantages and costs of various approaches are considered. A proposed computer system--Archival Information Dissemination System (AIDS)--to support microform retrieval is outlined. Included are diagrams of sequential flows of information…

Phase 1 of a two-phase study conducted by the Urban Associates, Inc. for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to determine the barriers to culturally-relevant delivery of its services to three ethnic minorities (namely, American Indians, persons of Spanish origin, and Asian Americans) found a scarcity of data on the numbers and…

The report describes a statistical study of persons in credit-free programs at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Designed to develop a survey instrument for determining an adult learner profile, the study was conducted among the 1,486 persons registered in such programs in the fall of 1974 (of whom 676 responded to the written…

The study of vocational education success measures and related concerns in Washington State is based on surveys of employers, graduates of vocational programs, current students in vocational programs, and local advisory committee members. Current vocational students regard the quality of present programs more highly than do either vocational…

The Design of Training Systems (DOTS) project was initiated by the Department of Defense (DOD) to develop tools for the effective management of military training organizations. Phase 2 involved the design and development of three computer-based mathematical models, described in detail in this report. The models described are the System…

This document presents detailed institutional enrollment tabulations by career and transfer program areas as well as by sex, full-time or part-time enrollment, and total enrollment figures. It consists principally of 12 tables: the first six tables present overall enrollments by institution and by program in 158 two-year colleges (67 junior…

National estimates of school achievement as measured by the reading and arithmetic subtests of the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT) for the noninstitutionalized population of the United States aged 12-17 years are presented. Data were obtained in the Health Examination Survey (HES) of 1966-70. In the survey a probability sample of 7,514 youths…

Ranging from information on the percentage of college students living at home to a composite picture of a typical faculty member, the following articles and charts, reprinted from "American Education," November 1972 through December 1973, illustrate the nation's increased effort in education from preschool through graduate school. This rapid rise…

A study of the interrelationship between expenditures and service programs in 27 community college library learning resource centers in California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, Missouri, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, and Maryland was conducted. Three data gathering tables on staffing, media production, library instruction, and media advisement were…