This report explores some techniques that could assist educational managers in their attempts to arrive at more optimal input and output mixes. Following a review of the literature on input-output analyses in education and a description of the Pennsylvania Educational Quality Assessment Program (the basis of the present study), an empirical…

This report summarizes some of the thinking, data, problems and other factors affecting the field work of a 4-year study of preschool programs with aboriginal families in Victoria. The project aims included: (1) establishing positive communication with part-aboriginal families in Victoria, in order to understand what planned educational…

To continue to be an effective local educational leader in curricular change, fiscal policy making, and, above all, in planning for education, the school administrator must have a continuous flow of usable information on public opinion. The purpose of this book is to provide the administrator with practical methods for systematically monitoring…

This manual is intended for use as a training publication and as a guide for investigators working wage compliance cases. The manual is divided into 10 sections. They contain a comprehensive review of the pay board regulations which remain in effect for those industries under mandatory control and serve as guidelines for the voluntary sector. To…

The ranked lists of South Carolina school district and county data contain information that may be useful to local school authorities in interpreting, comparing, and evaluating certain aspects of their educational programs. The tables were prepared from data entered in the records of public information. Data include school enrollment, attendance,…

This study was designed to investigate the impact that collective negotiations have had on teachers' salaries in Ohio; and the relationships between the incidence of work stoppages and the characteristics of Ohio school districts. Since the focus of this was twofold, it was found necessary to employ several statistical techniques to accomplish the…

The design of this Planned Variation study examines the impact of Project Follow Through on children, focusing on the 1-year kindergarten experiences of the third Follow Through group. Chapter 1 presents a short history of Follow Through and a description of each of the participating program sponsors. Chapter 2 considers the problems faced in…

The 1967 Invitational Conference on Testing Problems dealt with various aspects of change in education. Papers presented in Session I, Evaluation and Research in Curriculum Development, were: (1) "Adapting the Elementary School Curriculum to Individual Performance" by Robert Glaser, and (2) "An Evaluation Model for Professional…

The purpose of this study was to establish score equivalencies between the College Board Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and its Spanish-language equivalent, the College Board Prueba de Aptitud Academica (PAA). The method of the study involved two phases: the selection of test items equally appropriate for Spanish- and English-speaking students for…

Five groups of college students, each of which had undergone a different high school biology experience, were tested with the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) Comprehensive Final Examination to obtain data on the lasting effects of the BSCS biology courses. The analysis of variance approach indicated highly significant differences among…

The concern of this investigation lies with the development and estimation of models explaining children's intellectual variability. Specifically, attention is directed to: (a) the role of parental status attainments and family environments in the transmission of intellectual advantage-disadvantage across generations; (b) the possibility that…

This collection of papers is based on projects done in conjunction with a senior level/graduate course, "Applications of Operations Research Techniques in Systems Engineering." These seven papers describe research studies which utilized user surveys and/or statistical methods to analyze various library operations. The papers are…

The experiment discussed in this report investigates cross cultural ability to decode emotive meaning in extra-verbal vocal expressions of mood. The principal expectation of the study is that primitive mood expressions are understood in much the same way in all the countries tested. The moods depicted in the study--angry, sad, happy, flirtatious,…

This preliminary report, consisting of 14 statistical tables and a summary of their contents, was prepared from the states' reports on vocational education programs. The tables, which include data on enrollments and expenditures, indicate the national norm and each state's relationship to this norm. For certain items, data for previous years are…

This 18-month phase of a continuing demonstration project was designed to develop and test a program of English literacy training for Puerto Rican workers. Participation in the Basic Occupational Language Training (BOLT) program was based on the assumptions that an intensive exposure basis will result in significant improvement in job-related and…