Concentrates on quantitative aspects of developments in primary education in Latin America from 1960 to 1975. Factors analyzed include the increase in the number of students, changes in the structure of the educational systems in various countries, curriculum changes, and reform movements. (Author/DB)

Demonstrates use of a multivariate analysis in determining school attendance patterns. Such a method (1) reveals the differential relation between school attendance and key social and demographic factors; (2) allows reexamination of earlier findings; (3) demonstrates the major relationships between attendance and early industrialization. (KC)

The latest data on public expenditures show that since 1973 world expenditures on education have exceeded military expenditures in developed nations, but that the opposite situation prevails in developing nations. Beginning with 1965, this article summarizes these expenditures for the world as a whole, including developed and developing nations.…

In general, the results show that teachers respond to earnings differentials, be those differentials in the form of actual salary differences or in the form of differences in career prospects. Available from Cambridge University Press, 32 East 57th Street, New York, New York 10022; single copy $16.50 plus postage. (Author/IRT)

A three-phase salary review process conducted at one university is used to illustrate issues involved in determining salary equity. It describes salary policies, determining possible discrimination due to minority group status and determining salary adjustments of individual faculty in the minority group being discriminated against. (Author/LBH)

Describes a research methods course in sociology which utilizes the computer in all facets of instruction: facilitating statistical computation, providing individually paced learning, and performing administrative tasks. Considers problems in course development and discusses positive evaluations by students and faculty. (Author/AV)

The multitrait-multimethod matrix technique, as compared to analysis of variance decomposition, provided a more precise picture of the validity and methods bias characteristics of a longitudinal data set. Data were derived from a three year study of British elementary children to inspect the relationships among three academic traits, as assessed…

Three approaches to the prediction of juvenile recidivism--factor analysis, stepwise multiple regression, and stepwise discriminant analysis--are contrasted. Stepwise discriminant analysis provided the most consistent selection of variables in the data set used. Problems and advantages of the three approaches are discussed. (Author/JKS)

This study uses new nationwide data to analyze sex differences in choice of college majors in 1955 and 1973. The implied link between sex differences in the labor market and the human capital market is important, the author suggests, for both research and policymaking. (MF)

Contains a debate on research design and methodology considerations of the study. (CP)

Data from the national evaluation of Project Follow Through were analyzed using analysis of covariance with and without correcting the pretest for unreliability. Such corrections led to some changes in conclusions. There are many disagreements in the literature about the appropriateness of correction for unreliability. (Author/CTM)

Reports results of an experiment to measure the impact of course grade incentive on student performance in college level economics courses. Findings indicated that students scored higher when the TUCE was a graded course requirement. (Author/DB)

Intercorrelations of the items of the Characteristics of the Treatment Environment instrument (CTE) were factored for three samples of attendants at institutions for the mentally retarded. These results differed from previous studies of the CTE, which was originally developed for mental or psychiatric hospitals. Two factors, autonomy and activity,…

Path analysis was used to reevaluate the analysis of covariance quasiexperimental study of the effectiveness of the Head Start program. Contrary to the original analysis, the alternative approach yields small positive estimates of effect. (Author/CTM)

A simplex model is presented for the analysis of longitudinal academic growth variables in which only one measure is obtained at each time. When this model fits the observed data, then reliabilities and unattenuated correlations can be estimated except for the first and last periods. (Author)