The first part of a two-part, two volume study deals with adults aged 18-55 and identifies target populations and communications strategies for encouraging personal action steps to prevent drunk driving. Fully 54% of adult Americans participate once a month in social or business situations where alcohol is served. They are termed Alcohol Related…

The paper reports the results of a study which surveyed a national sample of male non-college-bound high school graduates and examined the relationship between vocational and other high school curricular programs and: (1) apparent needs for additional training and (2) kinds of jobs obtained. Data are drawn from the National Longitudinal Surveys of…

This study investigates how local school districts behave in allocating their budgets among teachers, other professional educators, support personnel, and nonpersonnel inputs. Demands for school inputs are estimated using U.S. Office of Education data on the expenditure and staffing patterns of large (enrollments in excess of 10,000 students)…

The report was aimed at determining (1) the degree to which recommendations made at three statewide articulation institutes for administrators and vocational teachers from the Department of Education (D.O.E.) and the community colleges have been implemented, and (2) the relative effectiveness of those recommendations in relation to the current…

The book deals comprehensively with occupational analysis, which is defined as the means for identifying and organizing that part of instructional content which is relevant to targeted performance situations. Occupational analysis yields useful information for instructional needs and helps to determine critical performance aspects warranting…

The problem of variability of data, even in presumable homogeneous subgroupings of handicapped children, which contaminates the results of many special education curriculum evaluation studies is examined with a study of 103 second-grade learning disabled students. The distortion of statistics calculated on samples of extreme variability; coupled…

An in-depth survey of women's colleges (27 independent private, 20 church-related, and two public) sought information in such areas as curriculum, continuing education, athletics, career support services, and the presence of women in teaching, administrative, and board positions. The percentage of women faculty members at women's colleges is two…

This statistical account is based on 1975 library annual report data. Summary tables list data on services, receipts, and expenditures for cooperating county library systems, city libraries, and the state library. Lists of communities served within each county and of each county's taxable property values follow. Directories of college and…

A study was made to determine the adult public's expectations and attitudes about public libraries in the southern Maryland region, which encompasses St. Mary's, Charles, and Calvert counties. Survey instruments and interviewing procedures were developed to make these determinations to create profiles of the library user and non-user based on age,…

In November of 1975, a committee was convened at Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory to examine the utility of computerized data base searching in the public library setting. Participants reviewed an on-going computer retrieval experiment (DIALIB) being conducted in four San Francisco Bay Area public libraries. Librarians reported that since…

The document presents the final report of a study to (1) identify job types in adult basic education in Texas and (2) provide a job-related basis for making management decisions at the State level, affecting local programs in adult basic education. A job inventory instrument was developed, containing 23 duties and 539 tasks, and was administered…

During the 1975 fall orientation, a questionnaire prepared by the American Council on Education (ACE) was administered to approximately 80 percent of the entering freshman class at the University of South Carolina (USC) in a study of class characteristics. A total of 366 other institutions of higher education, including 44 universities, also…

Though the television program "The Electric Company" was intended for a second and third grade audience, in May of 1975 the Children's Television Workshop undertook an evaluation of the effects of the program on four, five, and six year olds. The research was aimed at measuring reading gains, the retention of reading gains, and the…

The report describes a study designed to examine substitution between formal schooling and dropouts' post-school training or experience in the labor market. The basic hypothesis is that if formal schooling and post-school training are substitutes, then experience-earnings profiles measured in the logarithm of earnings should tend to converge. To…

The study was made to determine the earnings of a sample group of Indiana high school vocational program graduates to ascertain the effect hypothesized training has on earnings of high school vocational graduates. The sample was randomly selected from 1972-73 graduates, stratified according to vocational program. Of the 18 independent variables…