A standardized reporting format is being used by Massachusetts public libraries to provide another approach in identifying comparable libraries and to facilitate comparison of employee salary ranges and other personnel data. Tables list libraries by population group with corresponding data on current salary ranges, number of full time and part…

The multivariate general linear hypothesis (MGLH) has received relatively little utilization in educational research and evaluation. This is surprising in view of the fact that recent publications have made the MGLH tractable by practitioners. This paper seeks to stimulate interest in the MGLH by reviewing recent applications, emphasizing the…

A linear classification rule (used with equal covariance matrices) was contrasted with a quadratic rule (used with unequal covariance matrices) for accuracy of internal and external classification. The comparisons were made for seven situations which resulted from combining three data conditions (equal and unequal covariance matrices, minimal and…

The purpose of the present study is to demonstrate the utility of data analysis methodology in evaluative research relating pupil and curriculum variables to pupil achievement. Regression models which account for achievement will result from the application of the methodology to two evaluative problems--one of curriculum comparison and another…

Achievement tests which are specifically linked to an instructional program and have been developed in relation to an objectives base and/or to an item generation rule are considered, as well as student response data. Three types of studies are outlined and the kind of procedures thought useful illustrated. As various methods for examining…

The eighth annual study of occupational opportunities in Nebraska is based on a 5 percent random sample of employers in each of the six Technical Community College Areas in the State. A computerized straight line projection technique was used to project total employment, need over the next 12 months, reason for need, and need over the next two…

The intent of the study was to determine the extent to which test statistics computed by the unweighted means analysis are F-distributed. Applicability criteria were sought in terms of the number of factor levels and the degree to which cell frequencies differ. The unweighted means analysis, a frequently used approximate analysis, was contrasted…

As part of a long term project relating individual differences in performance on paper and pencil tests of intellectual aptitude and achievement to differences observed in laboratory studies of cognition, data have been collected comparing test scores with simple choice reaction times. The three studies summarized here suggest that the…

This report presents the findings of a survey designed to describe the state of society in the 1980s, particularly as it will affect the educational needs of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. The report was prepared to aid administrators of the Skyline Wide Educational Plan in their efforts to develop a comprehensive secondary school plan…

Commonality analysis is an attempt to understand the relative predictive power of the regressor variables, both individually and in combination. The squared multiple correlation is broken up into elements assigned to each individual regressor and to each possible combination of regressors. The elements have the property that the appropriate sums…

Described and listed herein with concomitant sample input and output is the Fortran IV program which estimates parameters and standard errors of estimate per parameters for parameters estimated through multiple matrix sampling. The specific program is an improved and expanded version of an earlier version. (Author/BJG)

OMNITAB is an interpretive computing system that enables the nonprogramer to use a computer to perform calculations and manipulations on tabulated data without prior knowledge of computers and computer languages. Because OMNITAB is widely available, and can be used to perform a variety of operations, instructors selected it for use in a statistics…

Developed by the National Bureau of Standards, OMNITAB is a simplified computer language designed to permit the novice user to solve basic statistical functions after less than an hour of instruction. It was hoped that by providing students in introductory statistics courses with an easily understood computer language, fears of number operations…

The Randominzed Response Technique was used with 83 undergraduate students in an Introductory Statistics course to: (1) demonstrate a means by which information of a sensitive nature can be obtained in a confidential manner; and (2) illustrate to a group of somewhat skeptical students an application of statistics to an interesting, real-world…

The National Petroleum Council has projected a 1980 bituminous coal production of 910 million tons. On that basis, the study estimates the manpower which will be required to produce that volume of coal. On the assumption of a productivity increase of two percent per year from 1974 onwards, the 1980 coal output will require a work force of…