Proceedings of the hearings before the special subcommittee on American Indian education, prepared statements of the witnesses, and additional articles, papers, and publications are included in this report. Statements were presented by an educational specialist, a psychiatrist, and other representatives from the various Indian tribes in Nebraska,…

Data were gathered from 22 large Texas school districts (over 17,000 in average daily attendance) and 221 medium districts to assess school participation in federally supported programs designed to assist the advancement of educationally disadvantaged children. In this report, the data gathered from the sample school districts are arranged into 8…

This report is a continuing analysis of the achievement of ethnic minority children who are bused for integration, and of other children attending the schools receiving bused pupils. The findings reported here are limited to children in the primary grades. The achievement of kindergarten and first grade bused and "receiving" pupils has…

The objective of this study of California projects, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, was to shed additional light on the cost-benefit and "critical mass" issues which are central to today's compensatory education planning and policy making. It covers reading and math programs in grades one through…

The applicability of the Rasch model to data from a typical personality test, the High School Personality Questionnaire (HSPQ), was studied. The data were gathered on Junior High and High School students in the Louisville Public Schools (Kentucky). Item easinesses and person abilities were estimated and compared by age group, within each age…

In order to assess achievement in technical drawing at the secondary school level, an experimental examination was conducted using 333 boys and 2 girls from 13 schools. The objectives of the course in order of importance were: (1) Understanding and Comprehension; (2) Use; and (3) Communication. Three papers were formed: Paper I, an objective…

A differential instructional program was developed for each of three mathematics aptitude item formats to determine the relative susceptibility of each to special instruction. High school juniors were given a pretest that included items of each format and a parallel form as a posttest several weeks later. Between the pre- and posttests,…

This study reports the comparative increase in enrollments at each level of education in all 22 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development between 1950 and 1965. Data are also included for Yugoslavia, an associated member country. The first two chapters deal with enrollment trend analysis -- chapter one being…

A project was designed to develop and test a library of cassette audiotapes for improving the technical skills of educational researchers. Fourteen outstanding researchers from diverse fields were identified, and a short instructional tape was prepared by each. Subjects of the tapes included instructional objectives for intellectual skills,…

The purpose of the present study was to extend the construct validity of a scale designed to measure attitude toward technology. A revision of the Mechanization Scale (Goldman, Platt & Kaplan, 1972) was administered to 89 undergraduate students with instructions to respond as if each were a member of a specified occupational group. The target…

A technique for detecting and studying item (or test) x group interactions independent of differences in level or dispersion of the groups is described. It involves construction of a scatter plot with two groups represented, one on each axis. Each point in the scatter plot represents the coordinates of a measure of a characteristic for one group…

This report describes the experimental design, presents the contract provisions, and provides conclusions and recommendations. The document is comprised of five chapters that discuss (1) the statistical analysis methods used, (2) the problems of using standardized tests in performance contracting, (3) the contractual procedures between OEO and the…

Focusing on the extent and quality of services rendered to Negro rural families by the agencies of the Department of Agriculture, this study was conducted in counties where Negroes formed a significant portion of the varying potential clientele of the agencies. Research techniques used in the study included conferences and interviews with program…

Data obtained from interviews with Black families during a 1971 interstate regional project in Texas provided the basis for this study, which explores the nature and magnitude of metropolitan (M) and nonmetropolitan (NM) differentials in disability. The following questions suggest the research objectives: (1) Do NM Black families experience more…

Procedures for early identification of delinquency-prone youth in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, are described in this report of a 1961-1972 study designed to delineate the problems of aggressive and disruptive classroom behavior as related to delinquency. Data collection began in 1961, when each 3rd-, 6th-, and 9th-grade teacher in Eau Claire…