Undertaken by a student from Rutger's University Graduate School of Library Service, this study is an analysis of the first 500 rejections received in response to his applications for professional library positions over a two year period. Job applications are categorized as solicited and unsolicited: these categories are further divided by type of…

The School Improvement Project (SIP) and Local School Development Project are two school-based constituency planning programs. The Documentation Unit is responsible for ongoing documentation and evaluation of them. The goals of the unit included holistic school assessment, development of school based needs assessment and evaluation activities, and…

The benefits accrued through the use of triangulation as both a design strategy and an analytic tool cannot be overstated. Triangulation allows for the clustering and organizing of disparate yet related data. Finding out what the data have in common and how the data are different allow the researcher to eliminate (or reduce) the number of…

A data based method for mainstreaming involving 120 elementary students (grades 1 through 5) enrolled in a resource room was utilized. Ss were monitored to find the percent of assignments they were completing in their regular classroom, and to determine the feasibility of using this data base to identify students who were not achieving, and to…

RECORDS WERE KEPT ON THE SUCCESS OF TECHNIQUES USED TO OBTAIN FOLLOWUP INFORMATION ON OCCUPATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL STATUS OF 12,615 INDIVIDUALS 2 YEARS AFTER BEING TESTED IN GRADE 12. THE STUDENTS COMPLETED AN ADDRESS SHEET DURING THEIR SENIOR YEAR GIVING THE ADDRESSES OF THREE PERSONS WHO WOULD BE LIKELY TO KNOW THEIR LOCATION 2 YEARS LATER.…

THIS ARTICLE DEFINES THE PRESENT STATUS OF INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH AND PHYSICAL PLANNING. IT SUGGESTS THAT THE OFFICERS IN THESE TWO AREAS WILL BECOME PROFESSIONAL SPECIALISTS, PROVIDING TECHNICAL ANALYSES PERTINENT TO THE MORE STRATEGIC DECISIONS MADE BY UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATORS AND FACULTY COMMITTEES AS WELL AS THE MINOR, TACTICAL DECISIONS. IT…

FACET DESIGN, AS ORIGINATED BY LOUIS GUTTMAN, IS A METHOD OF SYSTEMATICALLY ORDERING A PROBLEM FOR RESEARCH. FACET ANALYSIS ENABLES THE VALIDITY OF AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ORDERING PROCESS TO BE TESTED. THE LOGIC OF FACET DESIGN AND ANALYSIS IS BASED UPON SYSTEMATIC DELINEATION OF THE IMPORTANT VARIABLES PRIOR TO DATA COLLECTION AND THE EVALUATION OF…

The College Suggestor is an optical coincident system of information retrieval consisting of a series of plastic cards. Each card represents a characteristic of an institution and contains grid positions for 1,931 colleges and universities. The system of 217 card is so designed that the location of each college on the grid position is coincident…

Several techniques and types of non-test data are available to a counselor prior to and during the intake interview. In an academic setting before the interview, there are six basic techniques or sources for gathering non-test data about clients. These are: (1) personal data blank, (2) autobiography, (3) questionnaire, (4) rating scale, (5)…

This project, located in a large metropolitan school district, concerns the operation and evaluation of three Mathematics Demonstration Centers. In the first phase, directions are given about the necessary information to be gathered by the evaluating organization, (e.g. the school district administrative organization, size of school district,…

It was believed that information derived from a study of the imperative educational needs in Wisconsin might assist the Wisconsin State Department of Education and other State policymaking agencies to develop guidelines for future program planning and allocation. First, the document outlines the problems investigated in the study, describes the…

The Career Education Center of the Harlandale Independent School District, San Antonio, Texas, has developed a K-12 series of career oriented curriculum guides (CE 001 005-16 and CE 001 075-84). This document outlines the proposed occupational followup study for students in grades 8-12 and for five years after leaving school. Personal data will be…

This report primarily summarizes quantitative information on teacher training which is abstracted in the Educational Manpower Information Sources Project (EMAP). The information represents research and development documents, periodical literature, program and operating data, newspaper articles, Congressional hearings and reports, and a variety of…

Presented is the user's manual for the Educational Manpower Information Sources Project (EMAP), an information file containing approximately 325 document abstracts related to the field of educational planning. (The EMAP file is described in document SP 006 747.) (JB)

Proceedings of a national conference on continuing education are presented. Subjects discussed include: (1) The National Task Force Report; Implications for Business and Industry; (2) The Public Service Challenge; Implications for University Continuing Education of the Continuing Education Unit (CEU); (3) Implications for Government training; (4)…