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Lidstone, John G. – 1987
The Queensland (Australia) Board of Secondary School Studies developed a geography syllabus for senior classrooms which was implemented in 1980. Revisions of the syllabus took place in 1982 and 1986. Based on the 1986 evaluation, this report provides an evaluation, a summary of the findings, and advice to principals and teachers. Twelve case…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Curriculum Development, Geography Instruction, High School Seniors
Download full textPurdue Univ., Lafayette, IN. Office of Manpower Studies. – 1988
This report presents and discusses tabular statistical data covering trends in population distribution, education, social and economic well-being, and employment in the United States and the Great Lakes region. Section I, "Population Distribution and Change," contains a map of U.S. population growth projections for 1980-2000 and three…
Descriptors: Demography, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment
Davis, Dennis K. – 1978
Social scientists in the United States have been reluctant to use ideological/demographic research to explain and predict voting behavior because of criticism from survey researchers that such an approach provides interpretations only of aggregate data, cannot establish a direct causal link between independent characteristics and voting behavior,…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Cross Cultural Studies, Data Analysis, Demography
Folta, Bernarr – 1978
Together, the two papers in this report describe past, present, and future trends on the use of media, particularly in the English classroom. The first paper makes several projections about the use of media as a result of the "back to basics" movement. It defines "basic" education, explains the philosophical background of the movement, and offers…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Basic Skills, Educational Trends, English Curriculum
GERBNER, GEORGE – 1964
CONTRIBUTIONS OF MASS-PRODUCED INFORMATION AND ENTERTAINMENT TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC IMAGES IN EDUCATION WERE INVESTIGATED IN THE UNITED STATES, WESTERN EUROPE, AND EASTERN EUROPE. THIS PROJECT SERVED TO CREATE A MODEST HISTORICAL DIMENSION AND A CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE OF CERTAIN DYNAMIC ASPECTS OF MASS MEDIA EDUCATION…
Descriptors: Communications, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Educational Attitudes
PDF pending restorationIllinois Community Coll. Board, Springfield. – 1977
During the 1976 fall term, the 39 public community college districts of Illinois reported a combined total of 2,959 educational curricula in 183 fields of study. Student enrollment numbered 344,601. Curriculum offerings ranged from 34 to 444 instructional programs at the district level, with enrollment varying from 1,347 in the smallest district…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Community Colleges, Enrollment, Instructional Programs
Palermo, David S. – 1965
Free-association norms for 200 words were obtained in 1964 from the responses of 500 subjects in each of grades four through eight, 10, and 12 and from 1,000 college students. An analysis of this normative data revealed that (1) the frequency of occurrence of the most popular associative responses to stimulus words increases with the age of the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Children
Fisher, Charles W.; And Others – 1977
This report provides descriptive statistical information from Phase III-B of the Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study. Within the sample of second and fifth grade teachers in classrooms in public schools in California, approximately six students were identified as target students to be studied during the school year. These students were observed…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Grade 2
Petrello, George J.
The personal finance survey was designed to investigate the scope and success of personal finance courses on the collegiate level. A 12-item questionnaire was mailed to heads of departments or deans at 32 colleges offering economics and business administration courses. Limited to one page, the questionnaire was designed so that questions could be…
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Credit Courses, Economics Education, Educational Assessment
Statistical Reporting Service (USDA), Washington, DC. – 1974
Intended as a reference for the convenience of students in sampling, this monograph attempts to express relevant, introductory mathematics and probability in the context of sample surveys. Although some proofs are presented, the emphasis is more on exposition of mathematical language and concepts than on the mathematics per se and rigorous proofs.…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Algebra, Classification, Data Collection
Weiss, Carol H.; Hatry, Harry P. – 1971
This report is intended to provide government managers with some perspective on the nature and implications of sample surveys, their likely costs, and what can be expected from them. The authors discuss sample surveys less from the technical side than from the perspective of the officials who will make management decisions about an overall survey.…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Role, Bibliographies, Community Surveys
Oliver, John , Comp. – 1975
This survey of salary schedules for classroom teachers (elementary and secondary), is primarily a listing of the 1974-75 salary schedules of more than 880 school systems. It also provides a statistical appendix which includes tables showing salaries for college graduates, comparative average annual salaries of professional occupations,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Salary Wage Differentials, Secondary School Teachers
Wiener, William K. – 1975
This paper discusses the concept of school boundary permeability and describes the field testing and revision of the Parent-School Communities Questionnaire (PSCQ), a survey questionnaire designed to measure the permeability of school boundaries. The concept of permeability assumes that any social system, such as a school, is surrounded by a…
Descriptors: Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Models, Organizational Climate
Williams, Billy James – 1971
The purpose of this study was to determine the status of the general biology course as an area of instruction in the junior colleges of Alabama. Three frames of reference with regard to personnel, facilities, and curriculum were used in the study. The data were collected by reviewing the literature available on the topic and a questionnaire…
Descriptors: Biology, College Science, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research
Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD. Center for Research in Scientific Communication. – 1969
The objective of this research was to determine the publication fate of papers presented at the national meetings in 1966-1967 of the following organizations: (1) the Optical Society of America, (2) American Sociological Association, (3) American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, (4) American Geophysical Union, (5) American Institute of…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Information Science
