An overview of the system analysis approach to evaluation and the psychometric models currently proposed to evaluate Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I projects is presented. It is argued that, in America's Pacific possessions, the sole use of the systems analysis approach to evaluation fails to provide adequate information to…

The first of three documents on Project SEARCH (Search for Exceptional Abilities Reachable among Children with Handicaps) considers methods of detecting cognitive giftedness in exceptional children. It is explained that Catell's cognitive model of fluid intelligence is the basic premise used. Individual sections are presented on hearing impaired,…

The first of two papers included in this document addresses two related problems: Problem one: The appropriateness of existing standardized tests of achievement for the assessment of academic function in minority and disadvantaged group member students. Problem two: The appropriateness of such instruments for the assessment of the impact of…

The program is primarily designed to provide bilingual education for pupils, in grades K-6, with limited English-speaking ability. Due to parental requests, approximately 16 percent monolingual English-speakers have been accepted into the program. Of the 529 children enrolled in the program, 89 percent have Spanish surnames. Objectives for the…

This brief, filed by Educational Testing Service (ETS), a non-profit educational corporation, deals with whether Test 21, a test of verbal ability developed by the U.S. Civil Service Commission and used by the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia to select police recruits, is sufficiently job-related to be legally permissible…

This bulletin summarizes and interprets some of the main findings of "The Reading Problem in the United States," by Abraham Carp, Chapter III of "The Information Base for Reading: A Critical Review of the Information Base for Current Assumptions Regarding the Status of Instruction and Achievement in Reading in the United States," the final report…

Approximately 1,225 Mexican American and Anglo American children in grades 1-6 (ages 6-14) from California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas were tested using school achievement and IQ standardized tests and four Piagetian-derived measures (Cartoon Conservation Scales, Water Level Task, Figural Intersection Test, and Serial Task). The field study's…

This book presents the evaluation of a Primary Education Project (PEP) which focused on the development and evaluation of a model of individualized education for young children. The socioeconomic background of the participating students (primarily economically disadvantaged children attending an inner-city school) is described. The PEP 1969-1970…

The Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA) is a psychodiagnostic instrument devised to assess theoretically discrete and basic cognitive skills. In its genesis the ITPA, comprising nine subtests, was designed to provide independent estimates of a child's level of functioning in each of the nine abilities theoretically addressed. Factor…

Project ABC is a precollege talent search program that provides academically able, motivated disadvantaged youth with scholarships to private secondary schools, after an intensive summer transitional program. In an evaluation study of 82 disadvantaged boys, predominantly Negroes, who entered in the program in 1965, it was found that (1) the boys'…

The Pennsylvania Nonpublic Elementary and Secondary Education Act was passed into law in June 1968. It authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction of that State to enter into contracts to purchase secular educational service from nonpublic schools in Pennsylvania. This guide contains (1) the law, (2) definitions of terms, (3) a statement…

An investigation was made of the effects of the removal of certain grammatical categories from standardized reading comprehension test paragraphs on the reading comprehension of 180 third, fourth, and fifth graders enrolled in a rural Georgia school system. Each grade level contained a high and low reading ability group, based on standardized…

The performance results of a class of marginal students at Wayne State University were examined by comparing their standardized test scores with those of regular students and by correlating the scores and the work of the marginal students after 1 year of school. (The subjects were part of an experimental program for students who do not meet the…

An attempt was made to examine the factors affecting women of different ages in their selection of clerical and secretarial occupations. The factors considered were: health, intelligence, interests, previous work experience, stated reasons for present occupational choice, knowledge of employment opportunities and job requirements, influence of…

This final report is the 1972-73 evaluation of the ESEA, Title III project to establish regional centers for early childhood staff development in North Carolina. Chapter 1 lists the overall project objectives. Chapter 2 identifies and describes the project management staff. Chapter 3 is concerned with staff development, attitudes, and practices.…