This abbreviated form of the report of Florida's Statewide Assessment Program summarizes the key results and recommendations of the State's performance on the 1971-72 assessment of selected reading-related skills in grades 2 and 4. Topics discussed are: (1) why test? (2) what is statewide assessment? (3) what do 1971-72 assessment results show?…

Focusing on the identification of career education activities sponsored by business and industry in the Milwaukee area, a review of literature pertaining to the Home-Community Based, the School-Based, and the Employer-Based career education models was made, and data from personal interview questionnaires supplied from a Milwaukee survey of job…

This bulletin lists salary guide and fringe benefit data for noncertified personnel in 155 of New Jersey's 604 school districts. The data provided in this bulletin are grouped according to (1) office personnel and attendance personnel, (2) maintenance and operations personnel, (3) transportation personnel, and (4) cafeteria personnel. Each section…

The authors discuss the trend emerging from organizational research which shows in part that administrators are more effective as they are perceived to be considerate of their subordinates. Based on field observations and on the contention that (in an era of increasing collective behavior on the part of teachers) hostility might take the form of…

Twenty-three California school districts responded to a burglary and vandalism survey conducted by the Fresno Unified School District Burglary and Vandalism Prevention Project, which represents the first phase of a developing program to reduce vandalism occurrences and improve recovery of losses. This summary compiles survey data on 18,000…

Results of a project that included two surveys of existing student personnel instructional programs in community colleges across the nation and a State-wide workshop in the area of student personnel services (SPS) instructional programs are provided. The project report contains the following sections: 1. Introduction; II. History of the Project;…

It is now widely agreed that current ability measures reflect a complex interaction of environment with genetic potential. This leads to a basic measurement problem since persons with the same measured ability may vary widely in potential due to non-equivalent learning opportunities. The purpose of this paper is to present a model which may hold…

This study, conducted in response to the requirements of Wisconsin's State Advisory Council for Vocational Education as delineated in the Vocational Amendments of 1968, focuses specifically on the impact of Federal vocational education funds on State health occupations education programs. The six chapters deal respectively with: (1) the…

The investigation reported on in this paper aimed at determining and analyzing the costs of public school district central administration in South Dakota, Iowa, and Missouri. Financial reports to the State education agency for the school year 1965-66 were examined from 30 school districts in each State. Districts selected were the ten largest, ten…

This report is an assessment of the events of the first year of operation of John Adams High School, Portland, Oregon. The primary goal of the school was to provide an educational experience relevant to the needs and interests of all adolescents, regardless of their intentions about pursuing further formal education. The report is oriented toward…

This final evaluation report of the 1970-71 New Haven Bilingual Education Program's effectiveness in the various areas of instruction is a presentation of analyses of data gathered on student performance in oral language proficiency (English only), reading comprehension (English only), mathematics, and student self concept (administered in the…

Using post-secondary vocational education students as the populations, these two sub-studies of the Project MINI-SCORE sought to determine the extent to which pre-enrollment standardized test data can be used to predict vocational success. For the purpose of the study, vocational success was defined either as successful graduation or successful…

The Open University is discussed from the standpoints of problems, the design of the Student Application Form, an analysis of the student's progress, data collection techniques, and the course unit reporting system. Problems discussed include: the devising of an integrated multi-media system suitable for teaching degree-level courses; teaching…

A project to determine how children and members of their social environment regulate the stimulation they receive from each other is presented. The general procedure employed was the descriptive and experimental analysis of the behavior of subjects in social interaction situations, as recorded on videotape. Types of dyads videotaped include…

In this thesis, the effect of a Spanish and English language-cultural environment on linguistic functioning was studied. The study was conducted in 3 adjacent coastal communities in southern California. It used 3 groups of children (30 in each group) who differed in certain identifiable aspeces of language-cultural background but who were alike in…