Understanding the cost of resources used in substance abuse treatment is of critical concern to policymakers, payers, and providers of care. The Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS) was performed from 1996 to 1999. ADSS is a national study conducted in three phases to collect representative data on the characteristics of substance abuse…

The Surveys of Enacted Curriculum (SEC) are designed to provide reliable, comparable data that are collected from teachers and students at the K-12 math and science classroom level. The data analysis and reporting tools are intended to assist teachers, administrators, and policymakers with planning for instructional improvement in several ways:…

This study presents survey data from school district administrators on the rules and regulations that govern non-school use of public school facilities as adopted by 165 Missouri Public School Districts. It compares whether districts having written policies governing non-school use of facilities differed from districts with no such policies…

This handbook is designed for anyone seeking a methodical approach to needs assessment, but it is intended primarily for human resource development (HRD) professionals and for those who must validate HRD programs. It lays the foundations for needs assessment, discusses the "whats" and "whys," and then reviews the "how tos." These chapters review…

A manual has been designed to assist Texas Education Agency investigators in their attempt to take a state-wide inventory of elementary and secondary school facilities and educational technology. This manual examines data collection activities, data storage and maintenance, deliverables, and reporting. Every campus is expected to be inventoried…

This new edition is the result of an extensive review of the standards as defined in 1981. Taken as a set, the 30 current standards provide a working philosophy for evaluation. They define the Joint Committee on Standards for Education Evaluation's conception of the principles that should guide and govern program evaluation efforts, and they offer…

This project serves as a followup to an earlier report (J. Nichols, W. Ludwin, and P. Iadicola, in press) in which the student discipline and suspension data for a large urban school corporation in the Midwest were explored. In the earlier project, flawed data collection procedures by the school corporation made analysis of the data tentative and…

Harvard Family Research Project's series of Out-of-School Time Evaluation Snapshots distills the wealth of information compiled in our Out-of-School Time Program Evaluation Database into a single report. Each Snapshot examines a specific aspect of out-of-school time (OST) evaluation. This Snapshot describes the common data collection methods used…

This report has been created to provide information on how public institutions of higher education in Virginia utilize their Educational and General space as well as compare the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia's (SCHEV) space utilization guidelines with those used in other State Higher Education Executive Offices. The State Council…

Benchmarking is a widespread practice in all industries today. Higher education is no exception. One need only look at annual rankings in "U.S. News and World Report" to appreciate power of benchmarking in a market-driven society that is seeking the best value in education. To the public, and even to leaders in higher education, measures…

This research studied the evolution in the numbers of female students in France and Germany over a hundred years or so, compared them, and tried to interpret them in a manner valid for each country. (Author/RK)

It is the purpose of this paper to discuss a detailed analysis of the basic data collected by the Select Committee on Teacher Education together with supplementary data contained in the Association of Teachers in Colleges and Departments of Education (A. T. C. D. E.) Handbook for 1969. (Author/RK)

The authors present a discussion of Project PASS, an attempt to study and compare two computer-based school scheduling methods as applied in two schools. They evaluate some of the advantages and disadvantages of the two systems and suggest applications for each. (Editor)

It is the intention of this paper to review the purpose, underlying assumptions, and calculation procedures and to arrive at a means of handling analysis of covariance when the classical assumptions are not met. (Author)

The purpose of this article is twofold: (a) to report an attempt to replicate previous findings on the effects of adjunct questions in written discourse and (b) to discuss possible extensions of previous research on the retention effects of adjunct questions, based on current data. (Author)