The purpose of the final project report is to communicate the results of research. This document serves as a guide to the preparation of final reports on research in vocational-technical education. Close cooperation between the principal investigator and Research Coordinating Unit (RCU) staff assigned to the project can resolve many report writing…

This report is the result of a two year study during which the author attempted to apply one-half-inch videotape (VTR) technology to facilitate communication as a means of promoting development processes within the community. In addition to the social action component, the author collected and analyzed field data to determine effectiveness of VTR…

This paper presents the description and several applications of a model which can be used to determine how long a researcher must wait for the return of completed mail questionnaires to be sure the data collected reflect the true values of the parameters of interest. This model proposes to fit two linear time trend lines to a set of mailed…

The American Indian Health Service (AIHS), subsidiary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, is dedicated to elevating the health status of Indian and Alaskan Native peoples by: developing modern health facilities; encouraging Indian acquaintance with and participation in existing programs; being responsive to the concept of…

This report is organized around a series of tables that describe the characteristics of the student population of each institution in Oregon during the fall term of 1972. The data is organized into four sections corresponding to the four types of institutions: the State Department of Higher Education institutions; the independent and private…

Preceding the body of the report, a brief review of the literature is provided to acquaint the reader with similarities and differences between national and local trends regarding the demographic characteristics of the physician population. The goal of the statewide residency study was to develop a strategy for the design and allocation of…

The purposes of this study were to: (1) determine the essential elements of foreign student programs as they now exist in Florida community colleges; (2) identify and compare the essential elements of an effective foreign student program as perceived by community college presidents, members of boards of trustees, and foreign student advisors; (3)…

The project is an independent evaluation of a driver improvement program for unexceptional adult drivers, offered on a pilot basis in 1972-73 by Ford Motor Company to its employees. The program was conducted using four treatment groups which received different amounts of retraining (N=750). It was found that two treatments consisting of several…

Intonation patterns of Black English were studied and compared with those occurring in White English and formal Black English. It was found that: (1) the Black English corpus was characterized by a wider pitch range, extending into higher pitch levels than either the White vernacular or the formal Black English of the adult information; (2) a…

This document is the second in a series of 11 subvolumes of a handbook providing training for educational research and development personnel in the development of instructional materials. This subvolume deals with the task of collecting and analyzing data about criterion behavior. The document content is divided into the following five steps for…

Using the College Student Questionnaires (CSQ), Part I, data on student performance of two different entering classes at eight colleges were studied to identify the characteristics of freshmen women students associated with overachievement/underachievement during the first college year. Overachievers were defined as those whose overall average was…

Data are analyzed to examine systematically different configurations of work education by means of a typology in three dimensions: educational level, primary program purpose, and industrial setting. A stratified random sample of 50 work education sites was drawn to determine the degree to which different types of programs are meeting their…

The quality of the professiorate is the critical determinant of the quality of the knowledge base, preparatory programs, and even practice in the profession of educational administration. The authors hope that this study will lead to a better assessment of the strengths and weaknesses now represented in the professoriate and to the implementation…

The manual, one in a series to assist in planning procedures for local and State vocational agencies, contains two basic sets of information needed to use the Local Education Agency Model. Section 1 contains data element definitions, data collection forms and instructions, and editing and keypunching instructions. Section 2 consists of annotated…

Measures of background characteristics, school performance, and test achievement were analyzed for four race-by-sex samples of third graders who were known to have later become high school dropouts. In each sample, age in the third grade, course marks, and standardized achievement scores were found to be significantly related to the grade in which…