This assessment of college enrollment is based on data from the 1970 and 1976 October Current Population Surveys on college participation rates for 18-24 year olds by income level for four regions. In all regions, high school graduation rates were higher for persons in families with highest income levels. College attendance is more likely than…

The study examines goal preferences regarding emergency educational programs such as the Columbus School Without Schools Program conducted during the energy shortages of 1977. Preferences of diverse educator groups were analyzed by the multi-dimensional scaling program MDPREF. A two-dimensional solution was obtained, the first dimension being an…

This publication is the first regular report of the newly-funded Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) Project on Expanding Regional Cooperation in Graduate and Professional Education. Information about approvals terminations, and adjustments in doctoral programs from July l, 1974 to June 30, 1977 was compiled from a survey of…

The findings of this national survey of public attitudes are the second in a series of reports reflecting important trends in American society. The survey is one of a number made on behalf of the life insurance business by the Institute of Life Insurance. Data for the survey were collected in personal interviews with 1,500 to 3,000 adults.…

The bulletin presents selected results of the first followup survey of the national longitudinal study of the high school class of 1972, conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics. Information is presented, in percentages (weighed national estimates), on the personal characteristics, postsecondary schooling, and civilian work…

This study was conducted to provide descriptive, comparative, quantitative, and statistical information on the syntactic characteristics of two English registers: (1) formal and informal discussion and (2) administrative correspondence. In chapters 1 and 2 the background and purpose of the study are discussed. The composition of the major spoken…

Two types of sensitivity indices were developed in this paper, one internal to the total test and the second external. To evaluate the success of these statistics the three criteria suggested for a satisfactory index of item quality were considered. The Internal Sensitivity Index appears to meet these demands. Certainly it is easily computed. In…

The report contains a synthesis of vocational education statistics based on information submitted by the States on programs conducted under the approved State plan for vocational education in most cases for FY 1972 and FY 1973. Annual vocational education reports submitted by the States provide data on enrollments, program completions, and…

A longitudinal study of children and their families in Manhattan, New York City, this study comprises two samples: (1) a cross-sectional sample of 1034 families, and (2) a welfare (Aid to Dependent Children) sample of 1,000 families. The results of several profiling techniques which were conducted on the Welfare Sample are disucssed. While the…

Covering the period of June 1974 to June 1975, the report and final evaluation document the second year operation of a career education counseling project in the Corpus Christi Schools. The components of the project emphasized awareness and career orientation for K-6, established career resource areas in junior high school libraries, and developed…

A method to calculate the need for academic staff per faculty, based on educational programs and numbers of students, is described which is based on quantitative relations between programs, student enrollment, and total budget. The model is described schematically and presented in a mathematical form adapted to computer processing. Its application…

A national sample of school principals was administered the Job Functions Inventory for School Principals (JFI). This instrument consisted of 180 items or descriptions of functions a principal might have to perform on some regular basis. The principals surveyed rated the importance of each item. This report contains material on the background of…

A series of Piagetian concrete operations period tasks dealing with classificatory concepts was administered to 280 children (40 subjects from each of seven levels--preschool, kindergarten, and first, second, third, fourth, and sixth grades). Significant main effects for age were found for all the tasks. Few significant sex differences were…

This study contrasts the distributions of indices of academic abilities and achievements of entering freshmen classes and of classes that were intact at the end of the first year of college over an eight-year period. The data reported are based on two groups of students, one comprised of all students who completed the American College Test (ACT)…

The express purpose of the study reported here is to examine whether minority group students (including female students) have equal access to vocational-technical schools. The study assessed whether or not such access, as measured through enrollment in vocational-technical school programs, currently exists. The kinds of information gathered and…