This handbook offers guidance to teachers for obtaining and evaluating feedback on courses and programs of study at institutions of higher education in the United Kingdom and South Africa. Part 1 examines the purposes and functions of feedback, defines key terms, and summarizes key steps in the feedback process. Part 2 discusses the preparation…

This study undertook the development and piloting of a coding system for the evaluation of asynchronous Web-based Instruction and learning. Processes were guided by four prominent educational perspectives and the extended examination of, and survey data from, 17 archived Web-based courses. These served as the bases for the development and…

This publication gives a comprehensive overview of work done across all parts of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Each issue includes short publications, summaries, and descriptions that cover all NCES publications and data products released during a 3-month period. To further stimulate ideas and discussion, each issue also…

The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) partnered with Andrew Porter and John Smithson of Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) to develop an advanced, in depth approach to collecting and reporting data on the "enacted curriculum" in K-12 math and science, i.e. the actual subject content and instructional practices experienced…

In this volume, researchers, practitioners, participants, and scholars address the proliferation of methodologies, ethical and disciplinary concerns, and issues of equity and diversity such research raises from a wide variety of viewpoints. "Acts of Inquiry in Qualitative Research" also presents a broad assortment of articles by authors…

Author examined the relationship of educational cost to educational quality while considering the issue of school finance reform. (RK)

This article reports the results of a nationwide survey of chief student personnel officers at junior and community colleges. Included are statistics regarding sex, ethnicity, age, educational background, areas of responsibility, academic rank, salary, length of service, professional affiliations, and publication records. (Author)

It is the purpose of this paper to discuss one qualitative research method, participant observation, which describes and analyzes a setting based on data that has been laboriously and systematically collected and analyzed. (Author/RK)

This study describes an emerging sociological prototype and examines the degree to which urban stresses and conditions are absent or present and the manner in which they reveal themselves. (Author/RK)

An experimental program was developed for children in order to assess their self concept, anxiety, and relative degree of self-responsibility for school successes and failures. (Author/RK)

Study analyzed the results of a college rule regulating the maximum number of units students were allowed to carry and its effect on academic performance. (Author/RK)

Shows that substantial inequality of economic opportunity exists in the U.S. and that the educational system is a major vehicle for the transmission of economic status from one generation to the next. (RJ)

One purpose of this study was to examine computer-assisted instruction (CAI) performance in relation to certain individual difference variables and to help establish a basis for further research on this problem. (Author)

The addition in this study of both identical and similar test items did not influence the ability to recognize recurring characters. (Authors)