RESEARCH WAS CONDUCTED ON THE PROBLEM OF CONSTRUCTING SCHOOL DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES TO DESCRIBE AND DEMONSTRATE AN APPROACH TO CLASSIFICATION AND ACCREDITATION WHICH TAKES INTO ACCOUNT THE INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS OF EACH DISTRICT. PART 1 OF THE REPORT DISCUSSED THE SCIENTIFIC ISSUES AND CONCEPTS CONCERNING SCHOOL DISTRICTS AS A…

THE STUDIES EMBODIED IN THIS REPORT PROPOSE SOME STATISTICAL METHODS OF ORDERING AND ATTAINING RELEVANCY TO HELP THE EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHER CHOOSE AMONG SUCH VARIABLES AS TESTS AND BEHAVIOR RATINGS. CONSTRUCTION OF A MODEL FOR THE ANALYSIS OF CONTINGENCY TABLES, DETERMINATION OF THE MOST APPROPRIATE ORDERING PRINCIPLE IN STEP-DOWN ANALYSIS FOR THE…

A WORKING MODEL CAPABLE OF RANKING INDIVIDUALS IN A RANDOM SAMPLE FROM A MULTIVARIATE POPULATION BY SOME CRITERION OF INTEREST WAS DEVELOPED. THE MULTIPLE CORRELATION COEFFICIENT OF RANKS WITH MEASURED VARIATES AS A STATISTIC IN TESTING WHETHER RANKS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH MEASUREMENTS WAS EMPLOYED AND DUBBED "QUASI-RANK MULTIPLE CORRELATION…

A quantitative synthesis (meta-analysis) was conducted on 49 studies of attitude toward the school subject of science. A conceptual framework for the study of attitudes toward science was introduced. The benefit of such a framework is that it accommodates the results of prior research as well as programmatic future efforts. The results of the…

The testing of a priori contrasts, post hoc contrasts, and experimental error rates are discussed. Methods for controlling the experimental error rate for a set of a priori contrasts tested simultaneously have been developed by Dunnett, Dunn, Sidak, and Krishnaiah. Each of these methods is discussed and contrasted as to applicability, power, and…

Bargmann's test for examining the statistical significance of simple structure in factor analysis, an extension of the original significance tables, and the application of the significance test to several noted factor analytic findings are described. Using Bargmann's test, only 2 of 25 factor analytic studies reviewed are considered acceptable.…

A procedure was developed within hypothesis-testing logic that allows researchers to support a hypothesis that has traditionally been the statistical or null hypothesis. Four activities involved in attainment of this goal were discussed: (1) development of statistical logic needed to define the sampling distribution associated with the hypothesis…

Evidence of Cuyahoga Community College's success in preparing its 1966-through-1969 career program graduates for their chosen occupations was sought in this study. One thousand one graduates were sent questionnaires and 350 responded with the requested employment data and course-of-study evaluations. After studying the responses, the researcher…

This study considers the nature and frequency of curricular offerings in 758 junior colleges in the United States. Courses are classified as transfer, occupational, or comprehensive (both transfer and occupational), and tables are provided showing how frequently a course was offered, its relative ranking based on the frequency, and the percentage…

The high degree of persistence and academic success of Cuyahoga Community College students who transfer to private colleges in Ohio are indicated in this study. Based on replies of 20 respondents who transferred in the fall of 1968, the following conclusions were reached: (1) 90% of the respondents were still enrolled or had withdrawn in good…

The cloze technique was used to investigate differences among subjects at different levels of reading difficulty and differences between levels of readability. In addition, differences among lexical, structural, and nth deletion cloze responses were studied. It was hypothesized that an interaction exists between type of deletion and levels of…

This report is the second in a series of reports presenting analyses and discussion of data on body measurements performed in Cycle III of the Health Examination Survey. The method employed for the study, which involved physical examinations of youths at mobile examination centers at 40 preselected locations throughout the country, is described in…

This document reports the results of a study by a special AASA commission on the status of the superintendency in 1969-70. A stratified sample of superintendents was selected and superintendents were categorized according to pupil enrollments in their school districts. Major topics reported are (1) personal dimensions of the superintendent; (2)…

This statistical study examines the criteria used to evaluate applications for grants under Title I of the Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963, and investigates the appropriateness of using a panel of judges composed primarily of college administrators in application evaluation. (Author/LLR)

This study was designed to assess the conceptual structure of the Task of Public Education Opinionnaire (TPE). Since the development of the instrument, several psychometric techniques have been formulated. Two of those methods, image component and alpha factor analysis, were applied to the items of the TPE after the correlation matrices were…