Project TALENT is a large-scale, long-range longitudinal study of a representative sample of students assessed with a comprehensive set of psychological, educational, and personal measures. In 1960, students in grades 9 through 12 were given a battery of tests and inventories. One-year, five-year, eleven-year, and twenty-year follow-ups of the…

This government publication provides the first comprehensive report of a longitudinal study initiated in 1962 by the National League for Nursing for the purpose of obtaining specific information about the biographical characteristics of nursing students, their occupational goals, and their reasons for choosing nursing as a career. Intended to…

This report describes a developmental project in occupational education aimed at the unemployed, underemployed, and economically disadvantaged adults living in the 7-county northeastern North Carolina area served by The College of The Albemarle, one of 13 state community colleges. Partially funded by a foundation grant, this project included a…

The purpose of this investigation was to identify those demographic and programmatic (independent) variables which were the best predictors of student success in a remedial program, as measured by four different criterion (dependent) variables: grade point average, persistence, increase in internality in locus of control, and increase in…

Based on the hypothesis that certain elementary texts generally assign negative unrealistic, and tertiary roles to technical-vocational work modes, the study indicated that quantitative and qualitative bias in favor of professional work modes does exist in elementary reading textbooks. Jobs occupying positions of less status, i.e.,…

By 1971, Texas had attained the largest enrollment of adults in adult basic education (ABE) of all States. This report provides a descriptive profile of ABE teachers and students and analyzes factors determining student enrollment, attendance, and program completion. An exploratory search, the study assesses the relationship of situational,…

This report demonstrates the variety of statistical data that can be used in making analytical studies of the education sector in Guatemala and indicates some areas in which useful data seem to be lacking. The report is divided into four major parts: text, graphics, major tables, and an appendix. The text consists of a written and tabular summary…

The document describes the implementation of the Illinois Occupational Education Administration project, an effort to refine a delivery system for imparting 159 identified competencies known to be essential to the successful work of Occupational Education administrators. The overall objective of the training phase was to recruit, train, obtain…

This 19th annual college enrollment report published by the Kentucky Council on Public Higher Education includes statistical data from all accredited independent (private) and public institutions of higher education in Kentucky. A summary of statistical data indicated: (1) The 29 Kentucky public and private colleges and universities accredited by…

In this document, differences in what students expect to earn and what the census data indicates is eventually being earned at each age is considered. The difference between private returns and social rates of return is defined and reported by occupational field. Finally, the primary emphasis on why students and their families invest in graduate…

This report sets forth the commitment toward improving the over-all quality of education in Latin America as first announced at the Punta del Este Conference in 1967. Recognizing that education is a universal right and its implementation must not depend on socio-economic affluence or political motives of any region, members of the Organization of…

This study is an evaluation of a summer tutorial program designed to encourage inner city secondary school students to complete high school in a manner such that their chances of entering college would be maximized. The subjects in the tutorial group were forty 16 year-old boys. The control group comprised 28 high school boys closely resembling…

The major hypothesis of this study is that a significant relationship exists between English language ability (as measured by the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA) Full-Scale score) and language-modeling by the mother (as measured by the Mother-Child Interaction score on the Language Model Matrix), and between English language…

A new Joint Comprehensive Evaluation System for the assessment of 15 different federal programs has been developed by the U.S. Office of Education. In this system these diverse program services will be thought of as resources available to meet the needs of critical target groups. Using this approach, a set of nine crucial questions that need to be…

This report evaluates the operation and effects of a work-study program among high school juniors and seniors following its extension to municipal agencies of the city of New York. The evaluation forms part of a five year program, and constitutes an internal self-examination of the administrative and operational aspects of the institutions. The…