Teacher verbal mediation which might be associated with children's elaborated-restricted code use was described in 20 early childhood classrooms. Three teacher mediation patterns were identified. Data collected by RELAB, an instrument derived from Bernstein's coding categories, recorded 4,135 child statements, eight classroom contexts and eight…

Title IX of the Education Amendemtns of 1972 bars sex discrimination in any academic, extracurricular, research, occupational training or other educational program operated by an organization or agency that receives or benefits from federal aid. The regulation (45 CFR Part 86) for Title IX summarized in this document falls into five categories:…

This alumni survey evaluates Alcorn State University by two different methods. Objective data concerning the students' subjective ratings of Alcorn furnished the second means of evaluation. The classes of 1971, 1972, and 1973 were utilized as the particular alumni group to be studied, with 1,428 alumni being sent questionnaires and 446 alumni…

The purpose of this booklet is to assist the reader in understanding and utilizing the local district and local school reports provided by the Michigan Educational Assessment Program for the testing period January 1973. This document accompanies the data sheets and norm tables provided to each district and is intended to facilitate their use. This…

The New Orleans Parent Child Development Center Intervention Model hypothesizes a series of effects: the Child Development and Family Life Educators impart curricula designed to change mother's attitudes and behavior toward her child in ways which should encourage the development of competence in the child. The two single most important types of…

The study examines the increasing levels of female labor in the economy over the period between 1940 and 1970. Married women with husbands present show the most pronounced increase in participation rates with increases in every age group. Chart 1 and Table 1 present data on the percentage of women in the U. S. labor force over this period by both…

This study reports on the needs of young children in Idaho, relating to: (1) health and related factors during early childhood, (2) heredity and environmental factors which influence the child's development. Initial data were drawn from already existing studies and sources. Missing data were collected in face-to-face interviews with 2 percent of…

This volume on civic and social education in the member countries of the Council of Europe is one of a series of curriculum studies prepared under the auspices of the Oxford Council of Europe Study for the Evaluation of the Curriculum and Examinations (OCESCE Study). The aim of this series of studies is to help create conditions in which the right…

Organizational literature has long acknowledged the contextual relationship of specialization, referent group orientation, and vertical mobility as important sociological variables. In this article, the structural implications of a transformation in the educational vertical mobility concept due to alterations in functional specialization and…

The Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) strives to assist and guide high school students from deprived socioeconomic backgrounds to better realize their educational and vocational potential. A major object of this study was to learn more about factors relevant to the educational adjustment of NYC enrollees. All the enrollees who attended counseling…

This paper analyzes the differences in the relative roles that family social background and family process variables play in the development of achievement and motivation at the individual and at the aggregate or school level. The particular data analysis model employed treated the attributes of the school a student attended as if they were his…

In order to gain greater comprehension of the heterogeneous character of older people and to learn more about the social conditions surrounding the aged survivor, this study focuses on certain sub-samples of the older population: the married and widowed. Specifically, it attempts to assess the social adaptation to widowhood among the aged in 3…

As a part of the National Study of American Indian Education, the self-image of the Indian student was evaluated with the Semantic Differential (SD) in terms of attitudes toward self as well as toward other persons or institutions. Study groups were expected to describe themselves in favorable, neutral, or derogatory terms. The SD used in the…

In 1969-70 the Michigan Assessment Program gathered data from 320,000 students in approximately 4,000 schools in over 600 school districts across the state. The assessment battery included measures, at the fourth and seventh grade levels, of the following: socioeconomic status, attitude toward school, percentage of teachers with a master's degree,…

The purposes of this study were to: develop and measure the effectiveness of instructional units designed to enable young adult farmers to improve their ability to use farm management principles when making decisions, and measure the influence that independent variables have on the young farmer's level of understanding these principles.…