The Experimental Ecological Reserves Project has begun a comprehensive attempt to inventory the Nation's environmental research sites in preparation for establishing a network. This network will provide opportunities for long-term, manipulative, ecological research and establish an ecological data base. (BT)

Article provided some recent statistics on educational levels completed by adults 25 and over in 1974 and compared them to those of 1940. (RK)

The main concern of this study was the training of classroom teachers who could promote and sustain inquiry learning with children in elementary schools. (Author)

Will a combination of lecture plus teaching demonstrations produce better learning than when equivalent information is presented through lecture alone? The present field experiment directly addressed this question. (Author)

Questionnaire and interview methods are described as reactive because when these methods are used, the participant's reactions to the research process may influene his or her responses. Nonreactive methodology refers to unobtrusive methods of collecting data in which participant reaction to the process of data collection does not interfere with…

Evaluators, by the nature of their work, must be concerned with data management activities ranging from the collection and recording of data to the analyses, summation, and presentation of those data. Though word processing has been cited as the most frequently used microcomputer package by educational evaluators, spreadsheets are among the most…

This study was a preliminary step in gathering reliable data on suicides and suicide attempts in Padua, Italy. Data were collected from the first aid department of the Padua general hospital, 67 general practitioners in the city, staff of a night-time and holiday home-call medical service, the reanimation department of the Padua general hospital,…

In response to Congressional requests, this report describes the extent of Hispanic American health and nutrition data available from federal sources. Oversampling of a minority group by a national survey is necessary for valid analysis of group characteristics. Among the four national health and nutrition surveys conducted by the Department of…

Content analysis of critical events methodology is demonstrated in an evaluation of the Educational Telecommunications for Alaska (ETA) Project. This methodology was used to collect and interpret the data derived from the ETA staff personnel representing five components of the project. The data were analyzed using content analysis procedures. The…

In order to consider the study of human communication from an interpretive perspective, this paper addresses two questions: (1) What count as data? and (2) What do data count as? The paper's first section reviews the 1977 Symposium issue of the Western Journal of Speech Communication to identify what constitutes legitimate human communication…

This handbook is intended to help educational evaluators use still photography in designing, conducting, and reporting evaluations of educational programs. It describes techniques for using a visual documentary approach to program evaluation that features data collected with a camera. The emphasis is on the aspects of educational evaluation…

Intended for practitioners in early childhood special education, the document offers guidelines for conducting a program evaluation. Information is organized around seven questions: what is the purpose of the evaluation? what information is needed, and from what sources can it be obtained? when and under what conditions will information be…

Enrollment data suggest a careful look at future planning for instructional programs, facilities, faculty, and budgetary allocations. (Editor)

The position of the "purists" who insist on limiting data to ordinal analysis is contrasted with the "pragmatists" who treat data as interval. (Author)

Within the past 10 years, approximately 30 computer-based guidance information systems have been developed. Evaluation of operational computer-based systems indicates high user acceptance, ability to perform certain tasks as well as counselors, the effect of increase in vocational maturity, and cost feasibility. These data are used as a basis for…