Twenty-five adolescents reported 753 random daily activities and the quality of their experiences during a normal week, in response to an electronic paging device. These adolescents spent most of their time either conversing with peers or watching television. Television viewing was associated with deviant behavior and antisocial personality.…

Focuses on the characteristics of schools with differing internal grouping policies, particularly regarding comprehensive schools. The intent was to learn whether mainstreamed or non-mainstreamed schools tend to have significantly different intakes of children, in terms of their social background. (Author/RK)

Data for administrative and financial control are being confused with data needed for policy and planning purposes. Implications for information systems and data collection in Canadian higher education are discussed. (Author/LBH)

Examples of current institutional policy and practice illustrate threats to individual rights to privacy. Problems relate to computerized records and communications technology, the accuracy of the records, and the usage of the information. (Editor/LBH)

Describes recent federal legislation under which the local area unemployment statistics (LAUS) program will play an important role in allocating billions of dollars in economic aid to states and local areas. Major issues resulting from a review of the LAUS program (procedures, methods, reliability requirements) are discussed. (Editor/TA)

Statistical laboratory exercises designed to promote better understanding of statistical concepts in an introductory non-calculus statistics course are illustrated. The exercises make extensive use of data that are individually generated by tables of random digits or by computer. (MN)

Presenting a five-step positive reinforcement model for teachers and prospective teachers wishing to achieve a greater degree of self-management, this article includes discussions: selecting a goal; recording the quantity and circumstances of behavior; changing setting events; establishing effective consequences; and focusing on environmental…

The process of building empirical evidence for knowledge about teaching will be long and slow. (MM)

The potential for performance indicators for the teaching function in higher education was examined. Study of data from Lanchester Polytechnic and Loughborough University indicates that there is support for the systematic collection of data on instruction and resource utilization patterns within and across institutions. (Author/LBH)

Defining "effective teaching" involves a general conception of education and teaching, a conception of a curricular domain and its priorities, attention to the possible conflict in values and priorities among relevant groups, recognition of "functional equivalence," a multidimensional approach to data collection, combination and reporting, and "a…

Compares the incidence of handedness for specific adult age groups with data collected on children for comparable time spans and makes some judgments regarding incremental tendencies. (Author/RK)

A study was conducted to collect employment-related data for current university industrial education faculty that could be analyzed by teaching area. The intent was to determine the age distribution data by teaching area as a basis for making labor market demand projections. Results indicated a potential shortage of industrial education faculty in…

Reports results of surveys received from universities concerning aspects of departmental operation which include type of institution, numbers of faculty with academic appointments, salaries, budgets and graduate program stipends, sources of support and areas of study/research. Some data are represented by tables and graphs. (RT)

Discusses the need for standard and reliable sources of data on the costs of foreign library materials. A survey of price data available from vendors, bookselling associations, and librarians in France, Germany, and the Netherlands is described, and progress toward standardized price indexes is examined. (22 references) (CLB)

Described is a unit, SAMPLING, which focuses on developing student understanding of probability and data collection for junior high school students. Activities in SAMPLING incorporate physical materials, simple computer simulations, surveys of subjective data, computer simulations of complex situations, and a culminating activity requiring the…