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Gonzalez, Andrew – 1979
Philippine students in grades K-6, representing different socioeconomic classes, participated in individual elicitation sessions. Using Pilipino (Tagalog) as the language of elicitation, experimenters used pictorial stimuli to elicit specific structures of English grammar, in order to discover if the subjects had mastered these structures. Only…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Children, Elementary Education
Wells, Janet – 1980
This publication contains a guide and set of five questionnaires designed to help determine whether the Vocational Education Act Amendments of 1976 have had an impact on the community. (The 1976 Amendments require recipients of federal funds to eliminate sex discrimination and sex stereotyping from their programs and provide specific resources.)…
Descriptors: Administrators, Counselors, Educational Legislation, Equal Education
Stern, H. H.; And Others – 1975
This study arose from the recently published report of the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) in Britain, "Primary French in the Balance" (1974). The study consists principally of a series of discussions between the project leader, Ontario Ministry of Education officials, the principal investigator, and other invited…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Caldwell, Robert M. – 1979
Evaluation studies conducted in 1978 at three sites yielded encouraging results regarding the ability of the Basic Skills Learning System (BSLS) to achieve the goals of adult basic education and demonstrated that effective curriculum models utilizing well-designed instructional paradigms can offer high quality instruction in the basic skills when…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction
Hyman, Irwin A. – 1979
A search of the literature was made on the effectiveness of recruitment and selection procedures for identifying and retaining administrators and school staff who are effective in managing student conflict and alienation. A classification scheme devised to fit approaches to school discipline within a theoretical framework includes (1) the…
Descriptors: Administrators, Behavior Change, Behavior Theories, Bibliographies
Rao, Lakshmana G. – 1979
The effect of foreign students on the host country, and the benefits to their own developing countries are studied in this book. Data from a survey of foreign students in Australia conducted from 1973-1975 by the Education Research Unit of the Australian National University are compared with data obtained from similar surveys in the United States,…
Descriptors: Books, Brain Drain, College Students, Developed Nations
Bowlsbey, JoAnn H.; And Others – 1976
A comprehensive report of the last six weeks of a three-month field trial of DISCOVER, conducted in one junior high and one senior high school in Baltimore, Maryland, and interpretation of the collected data are provided in this report. (DISCOVER, the product of four years of development, 1972-76, is a computer-based guidance system which includes…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
Amodeo, Luiza B. – 1977
An examination of the linguistic behavior of monolingual and bilingual Spanish-speaking children in an environment where there is opportunity to develop proficiency in two languages is examined. A review of the literature concerned with the relationship of learning processes to psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic contexts precedes an examination…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Children, Cultural Pluralism
Scott, Elois Skeen – 1979
Included in this report are the questions that were asked of math and reading teachers, generalists, aides, and principals during the course of the evaluation, general observations made by the evaluator, and a discussion of observations and recommendations made by both the Title I staff and the evaluator. Each discussion focuses on the respective…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Compensatory Education, Cooperative Programs
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Office of the Chancellor. – 1978
This manual contains information on two evaluation systems for occupational programs at California community colleges. For the first, COPES (Community College Occupational Programs Evaluation System), which is a self-evaluation process, a guide is provided as well as a set of seven evaluation forms for the college president, faculty, counselors…
Descriptors: Classification, College Curriculum, Community Colleges, Data Collection
Attending Staff Association of Rancho Los Amigos Hospital, Inc., Downey, CA. – 1976
Based on the premise that thousands of disabled do not participate in vocational education mainly because of nonacceptance into programs due to a lack of readiness, a study was conducted focusing on three severely disabled groups: (1) those accepted by the Department of Rehabilitation for programs, (2) those not accepted but given "pre-vocational"…
Descriptors: Career Development, Comparative Analysis, Counseling Services, Demonstration Programs
Halligan, Patrick – 1979
A fourteen-month project was undertaken to update, expand, publicize, and evaluate EUREKA, a career information system used for vocational counseling in California. As a result of this project, the following information was added to EUREKA's data base: twenty-one new schools; sixty-two agencies offering over 1,000 courses; a VISIT file for Contra…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Counselor Training, Data Collection, Information Dissemination
Havighurst, Robert J.; Orr, Betty – 1960
In this part of the Kansas City Study of Adult Life, educational implications of adult activities and goals were explored, with emphasis on effective living in middle life. Performance of adult developmental tasks and motivation toward effort in these areas were investigated. Criteria were offered for assessing high, medium, and low performance in…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Age Differences, Developmental Tasks
CONNERS, C. KEITH; WALLER, DAVID A. – 1966
IN A STUDY TO ASSESS THE VALUE OF A 1965 SUMMER HEAD START PROGRAM IN BALTIMORE, 83 PARTICIPATING CHILDREN WERE TESTED ON THE PEABODY PICTURE VOCABULARY TEST (PPVT) AND THE DRAW-A-PERSON (DAP), AND THEIR SCORES WERE COMPARED WITH THOSE OF A MATCHED GROUP OF CONTROL NON-HEAD START CHILDREN. ALL WERE TESTED IN SEPTEMBER 1965 (AT THE BEGINNING OF THE…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Achievement Gains, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education
Diamond, Robert M. – 1966
An experimental program was undertaken to find a means of facilitating the teaching of art to large numbers of students in a Humanities course at the University of Miami. Original paintings were available for study in the University art gallery, but there was insufficient room for large classes in the gallery and a specialist teacher was not…
Descriptors: Art Education, Attitudes, College Freshmen, Experimental Groups
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