Historical change in occupational and educational status projections of Texas rural Mexican American teenage boys and girls between 1967 and 1973 were examined. The study determined the nature and extent of historical change patterns occurring among these youth in reference to the following dimensions of occupational and educational status…

This study probes the relative effects of 2-year and 4-year college environments on their students. Using a population of 305 male students who had resided and graduated from public schools in the same county, 195 were randomly selected for the study. These students--68 from a university and 46 liberal arts, 25 technical, and 56 business students…

The adaptation is proposed of an evaluation technique to the needs of the State Department of Education of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by demonstration in a selected group of schools. Improving educational quality through Comprehensive Achievement Monitoring (CAM) is accomplished by providing students and educators with longitudinal and…

The current philosophical position of the project is reviewed and a variety of issues relevant to educational evaluation and achievement monitoring are enumerated. Various past attempts to model the variables of school learning are reviewed and those adopted for the Comprehensive Achievement Monitoring model are discussed. The student variables…

The academic careers of three groups of children were followed from grade 1 to grade 12 to determine the effectiveness of early school admission criteria. Children with chronological ages of less than 5 years, 7 months could qualify for early admission into first grade if they achieved a mental age of six years on the Stanford Binet, Form L. Group…

In an effort to isolate the emergence and causes of social class differences in intellectual performance, this longitudinal study was undertaken as a follow-up on a cross-sectional study that yielded no social class differences on the Cattell Infant Intelligence Scale for 12-, 18-, and 24-month-old black children. In the present study, 89 children…

This paper presents results, using data from the National Longitudinal Surveys, which support the economic disadvantage of a non-Southern ghetto environment for young black males. Controlling for differences in age, years of school completed, region and character of current residence, it is found that the mean earnings of young black males…

The purpose of the investigation is to identify an operationally viable research methodology for assessing the value derived from selected library services at Cranfield Institute (England) and to evaluate and comment on the costs of providing such value. Four population groups are critical in the development of the expected value of library…

This paper offers a preliminary analysis of the effects of a semi-segregated school system on the IQ's of its students. The basic data consist of IQ scores for fourth, sixth, and eighth grades and associated environmental data obtained from their school records. A statistical model is developed to analyze longitudinal data when both process error…

This report establishes a definition of the phenomenon of adolescence against which to consider research needs and reviews current research issues in adolescence. Research related to adolescence conducted by federal agencies in fiscal year 1973 is described in terms of both the overall research picture and the particular nature of the work of each…

Described in this report is a home-based, cognitive-affective intervention program involving 93 mothers and their children. This demonstration program sought to show that the principal cognitive element missing from the experience of low-income children in preparation for schooling is a sufficient amount of concept-building verbal interaction in…

The Children's Auditory Discrimination Inventory (CADI) was used in the longitudinal study to evaluate the child's ability to identify, between two pictures that have been given oral word equivalents, the picture that represents the orally presented stimulus word. The task, which takes 10 minutes, uses 38 cards with two pictures on each and 38…

Primarily through the use of tables and graphs, this report presents results of a survey done in the Fall of 1972 of the activities of students who had been enrolled in grade 12 the preceeding June. The results of this survey are compared with data from earlier surveys in this program which has been conducted since 1965. The most dramatic trend…

The Career Data Book presents data from tests and inventories administered to 108,000 individuals in a five-year followup to Project Talent, a longitudinal study whose goal is to relate the aptitudes, interests, and education of American youth to their occupational choices. The Project conducts periodic surveys on members of the sample over a…

This book reports on the Harvard Preschool Project, a study of how child-rearing practices affect the development of social and intellectual competence in children from birth to age six. The study is based on the experiences of 31 subjects in their own homes in Massachusetts. Part I gives the introduction, background and strategy for determining…