This report provides descriptive information on charter schools that were in operation during the 1997-98 school year. The report is part of a 4-year research program that will document and analyze the charter-school movement. Data were gathered using phone surveys, repeated field visits to a sample of charter schools and their surrounding…

This assessment sample provides information on the Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) for grade 10 science. The sample consists of six items taken from the test booklet and scoring guides for the six items. The items assess ecosystems, mechanics, and data analysis. (MM)

Do preferences for income inequality differ systematically between the post-socialist countries of central and eastern Europe and the western established market economies? Analyzing 1999 data from a large international survey to address this question, the paper examines whether attitudes to inequality differ between east and west even after the…

This collection of activities is designed to show how graphing calculators can be used to explore statistics. The activities address such topics as data representation, distributions, and statistical tests. Teaching notes and calculator instructions are included as are blackline masters. (MM)

The passage of the Children First Act in 1988 ushered in a new era of data collection, analysis, and reporting about the overall quality and condition of education in Louisiana. Implemented in 1990, this major piece of legislation resulted in the publication of the Progress Profiles (School Report Cards, District Composite Report, and the…

This Feasibility Study to Develop a Methodology to Monitor the Impact of Changes in Competitive Food Policies had two main goals: (1) Design and test a plan for collecting and analyzing data about competitive food policies and all foods offered and served to students at school; and (2) Provide a methodology for assessing the impact of changes in…

This study helps to illuminate how a group of principals use data in light of new state and national requirements for accountability. On a very positive note, the responding principals reported using data to a great extent in their own practices, and they are encouraging their staff to use data in ways that align with the notion of effective…

This paper is an attempt toward the goal of developing an integrated quantitative theory of visual stimulus selection. (Author/RK)

In the present study, an attempt was made to determine whether temporal patterning and speach processes comparable to those obtained with categorized materials are involved in the recall of higher order units formed intraexperimentally. (Author)

The present study was designed to provide a finer analysis of the effects of active and passive vocalization vs. silent visual presentation on recall at various retention intervals through the use of the distractor technique. (Author)

Article considered the decline of the relative pay of teachers as well as the comparative amounts of money different teachers earn. (Author/RK)

It was the purpose of this study to investigate some concomitants of reported drug usage among public school students. (Author)

A detailed review of the methodological shortcomings in Jencks' Inequality'' suggests that the policy recommendations implied in the book are not strongly supported. (Author/KM)

The first purpose of this research was to study the effect of distraction on achievement and to clarify some discrepancies in research findings on the effect of response mode. (Author/RK)

The purpose of the present study was to investigate, in a middle-class sample of children, the relationship between intelligence and family size in order to ascertain, within the upper SES groups, the relationship between family size and a child's performance on an intelligence test. (Author/RK)