A manual of quality control (QC) techniques is presented for financial aid and fiscal administrators. Steps for establishing, designing, implementing, and evaluating a QC program are outlined including the following: obtaining institutional commitments; developing the QC team; determining priorities for development; determining functions to be…

Edits that can be performed by the processor who applies for federal campus-based student aid programs are discussed, along with a longer-term approach to assessing the efficacy of recommended edit checks. Attention is focused on the accuracy of data submitted by institutions on the application portion of the Fiscal Operations Report and…

Major changes have occurred in compensatory education evaluation practices and policies since the introduction of the Title I Evaluation and Reporting System (TIERS) and the Technical Assistance Centers (TAC) in 1976. This paper has three purposes: (1) to discuss these changes at the state and local levels; (2) to illustrate these changes with…

Recognizing that the major technical direction of this decade is toward proximity of computing function to its users, the Research Libraries Group (RLG) is moving to distribute its processing capabilities. The goals of this study were to formulate an architecture for an RLG distributed system, to identify pre-existing components appropriate for…

To enable the William R. Perkins Library to focus attention on its collection development operation, a six-member study committee was appointed to review within the present and future environment of the university current collection development policies and procedures and to suggest changes as appropriate to ensure effective use of the library's…

This analysis addresses the need for including age-structure effects in migration analysis as important for determining effects of a demographic process on an area's socioeconomic characteristics. It examines: (1) patterns of age-specific net migration across age groups for Texas' 254 counties in 1960-1970 and 1970-1980 using cluster analysis and,…

The purpose of this study was to gather information from secondary school students, their teachers and parents concerning their perceptions of school and education. The study was a replication of similar studies carried out in North York in 1971-72 and 1976-77, and was intended to provide data regarding current perceptions of school as well as to…

In this thesis, consideration is given to the interrelationships between a number of key concepts (devolution, decentralization, participation, consultation, coordination, and networking) and reports in educational and general public administration which have been produced over the last decade. Networking is the interconnecting concept. In the…

An exploratory study was conducted to investigate the self-concept of 160 disadvantaged black fourth graders attending two elementary schools in East Cleveland, Ohio. Self-concept was studied in relation to children's levels of anxiety, their feelings about school and school subjects, their educational and vocational aspirations, teachers'…

The results of a survey of all state and territorial statutes relating to private education are displayed in 65 tables that include excerpts from statutes and citations. Because compulsory education laws provide the basis for most state regulation of private education, the survey also reveals basic requirements for children in public schools. The…

Comprehensive health care (preventive, curative, rehabilitative, and environmental) for more than 930,000 eligible American Indians and Alaska Natives is the responsibility of the Indian Health Service (IHS). Since 1955, this agency of the U.S. Public Health Service has made notable progress in raising the health status of Indians and Alaska…

This is one of a series of reports based on an ongoing reality test of systemic evaluation for instructional decision making. This feasibility study is being carried out by the Center for the Study of Evaluation with the Laboratory in School and Community Relations at a suburban Los Angeles high school (called Site A). Viewing a school as a…

This monograph reports a continued effort at the Univeristy of Toledo to conduct research and evaluation of an operational, competency-based teacher education (CBTE) program. The University of Toledo embarked on a measurement and evaluation effort for its CBTE program in 1975. An initial report was released in May 1980, and a second report was…

A four-year longitudinal study of concept attainment and uses of concepts, as specified by the Conceptual Learning and Development Model, is described. Data collected during the first two years were based upon the assessment of the concept, equilateral triangle. The assessment battery was administered to 351 children (grades K, 3, 6, and 9) in…

The report presents the 1976-77 racial/ethnic distribution of public school students and staff in New York. Tabular data include the students' racial/ethnic distribution for the State's major school districts of Buffalo, New York, Rochester, Syracuse, and Yonkers (individually and combined), for the rest of the State, and for the State as a whole;…