This paper presents the description and several applications of a model which can be used to determine how long a researcher must wait for the return of completed mail questionnaires to be sure the data collected reflect the true values of the parameters of interest. This model proposes to fit two linear time trend lines to a set of mailed…

The purpose of this project was to test the effect of an intensive acquisition effort in one region of the nation (Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont); and develop selection criteria, indexing strategies, and abstract formats congruent with user needs. The staff of The Center for Vocational and Technical Education (CVTE)…

This report is the sixth in a series covering salary schedules used in 2-year institutions. The salary schedules reported cover 50,640 full-time faculty members, who represent 61.1 percent of the estimated total full-time faculty in 2-year colleges in 1972-73. The data were supplied by the colleges in response to an NEA research questionnaire. The…

The results are presented of a survey made to determine the communication patterns by which the area population learned of KOCE (a public UHF television station of the Coast Community College District) during its first year of operation, and how active viewers of the TV station perceived it in terms of desirable and actual service. The survey was…

This evaluation plan outlines the essential features of Home Start Evaluation activities scheduled for the twelve months beginning Fall 1973. Data will be collected in an effort to answer the following four questions: (1) Are Home Start program guidelines being followed in the kinds of families and staff involved?, (2) Do families in Home Start…

This document is the second in a series of 11 subvolumes of a handbook providing training for educational research and development personnel in the development of instructional materials. This subvolume deals with the task of collecting and analyzing data about criterion behavior. The document content is divided into the following five steps for…

In the process of planning for the needs of all students, local school officials could use a linear planning guide. Such a procedure calls for moving through several phases: preparation for planning, analysis of the situation, development of alternatives, selection of a plan, implementation of the plan, and evaluation of the plan and of the…

The quality of the professiorate is the critical determinant of the quality of the knowledge base, preparatory programs, and even practice in the profession of educational administration. The authors hope that this study will lead to a better assessment of the strengths and weaknesses now represented in the professoriate and to the implementation…

The manual, one in a series to assist in planning procedures for local and State vocational agencies, contains two basic sets of information needed to use the Local Education Agency Model. Section 1 contains data element definitions, data collection forms and instructions, and editing and keypunching instructions. Section 2 consists of annotated…

The purpose of the conference was to discuss some important recommendations of the Third International Conference on Adult Education, sponsored by UNESCO, Tokyo, Japan, July 25-August 7, 1972. The conference was made up of 36 invited participants from fifteen coutries. Discussions were carried on in French, English, and German with simultaneous…

Through utilization of effective sampling procedures, libraries may obtain substantial savings in terms of data collection costs. A theoretical statistical sampling model is presented and two types of random sampling techniques are empirically compared as to their effectiveness in estimating a library usage parameter. Implications are drawn for…

The booklet is an annotated compilation of data gathering instrumentation for use in planning, implementing, and evaluating career education programs. It contains two sections: (1) eighteen instruments developed by Delaware's Occupational-Vocational Education Model project staff for specific use in the local school system and (2) six commercially…

The manual, one of a series resulting from a project to design planning procedures for local and State vocational agencies, presents survey instruments which will help State, county, or local educational agencies gather information on the amount and kind of demand for adult or post-secondary vocational education programs. These instruments…

Conclusions reached after three years of performance contracting experience and materials with which to judge the validity of the conclusions are presented in this overview of performance contracting. The conclusions are: (1) commercial firms are no better at teaching children than are public schools; (2) commercial firms expend as much or more…

As with any new theory, it is necessary to validate the basic construct of vocational maturity. Once this is done, instruments to measure vocational maturity, or decision making, can be evaluated. With this as an objective, this paper discusses some of the problems associated with measuring vocational maturity, such as identifying variables,…