To insure that information needs are met or identified and that these needs are communicated to information producers in a systematic way, a sensing network is proposed for monitoring information system operation and forecasting information needs. Concerns of the network and bases for evaluating the information system are identified. Five staff…

The Adult Education Survey, a supplement to the Bureau of the Census Current Population Survey for May 1969, which recorded course information for the 13,041,000 adults age 17 and over (10.0 percent of the adult population of the U.S.) who during the previous 12 months had participated in adult education, provided the data on which the report is…

The need for a new type of standardized procedure to learn what educational concerns junior college students have and how effectively they felt they're needs were being met led to the development of a questionnaire to meet the need. This report presents a description of the various phases through which the questionnaire was developed and made…

This is the final questionnaire developed to ascertain Student Reactions to College from Junior College Students. The items in the questionnaire relate to the following: Sex, Age, Marital Status, Living Arrangements, Employment, Ethnic Group, When Classes Are Attended, Number of Credit Hours Enrolled, Previous Semesters or Quarters Completed at…

All Extension professionals employed by the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service during the entire Fiscal Year 1971, a total of 378 employees, participated in a study to determine their attitudes toward working with low-income clientele. Data were collected by mail questionnaire, personnel records, and statistical reports from the employees. Of…

A comprehensive study of social services, carried out in Saskatchewan in 1973, had as its ultimate purpose the determination of the kinds of qualifications needed in the social services as a basis for guidelines for the provision of appropriately trained social service personnel. A distinctive feature of the study was that questionnaires were sent…

The four papers presented in this symposium provide the overall picture, the rationale, and the methodology for a study on self-hypnosis done at the University of Chicago. Methodologically, the main thrust of this investigation was introspective. The authors recognized the need for more careful criticism of the status of verbal reporting in…

The Inactive Health Personnel Project, conducted by the New Jersey Department of Health in 1967, had as objectives to increase the supply of health manpower by locating health personnel and promoting their active employment; to develop the details of health personnel needs by category of personnel and geographic area; and to assist in the return…

This report, the third in a series, describes a Head Start longitudinal study of the complex interactions that may take place among child, family, community and program variables. Chapter 1 describes the initial longitudinal sample, based upon information on sex, race, Head Start enrollment, and socioeconomic status. Analyses are given of mothers'…

In the controversy regarding the relationship of the cost per student to the size of the school, some argue that economics of scale exist while others insist that they do not. The purpose of this study was to estimate the net relationship between the enrollment size of an area vocational technical school and the expenditures per student. The…

To determine the current status of business education in the public secondary schools of Illinois, a comprehensive analysis was made regarding specific aspects of the business education program. The study was accomplished with a questionnaire designed to obtain data regarding the business education program, such as the organization and…

This eight city pilot survey tested the feasibility of conducting a nationwide mail survey of training in business and industry, including feasibility of the project for specific industry groups. Other objectives were to specify subject areas on which data might or might not be available; suggest a single questionnaire or series of questionnaires;…

Sample forms are presented for interview information obtained from teachers, administrators, students, guidance counselors, and dormitory staff personnel in Bureau of Indian Affairs schools, from parents of Indian students, and from community leaders. A classroom observation guide and checklists for dormitory and school facilities, curriculum and…

The Invitational Conference on Testing Problems has been a major convocation among the various annual meetings of those who are concerned with educational measurement. The first paper by Richard Anderson deals with the evaluation of a small part of an instructional program and deals with it in an experimental fashion. The presentation by Ethna…

This report describes and evaluates two 1968 workshops on institutional research held in the South and Midwest. The workshops were designed to provide short-term intensive training in the problems and techniques of selected areas of institutional research and to allow discussions of the various philosophies of operating institutional research…