Survey instruments of many kinds are being used extensively in most states for gathering needed data which may re relevant in solving various educational problems. This study presents evaluative criteria and evaluative criteria test items which can be used to serve as guidelines in the designing, constructing, and evaluating of survey instruments…

This paper reports a portion of a research effort to develop a program which will simulate the language learning behavior of humans. Here presented is a heuristic parsing procedure which accepts natural language sentences and produces for each a form of analysis called a "labeled dependency tree." The formal grammar on which the…

The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) has been very active in the performance-based movement. In the fall of 1972, the AACTE conducted a preliminary survey of 1,250 institutions asking which institutions were operating, investigating and/or planning PBTE programs. Of the 783 respondents (a 63 percent return), 131 (17…

Content analysis is a systematic and objective technique which reduces into smaller sub-parts existing communications. It is the analytical reduction of a text to a standard set of statistically manipulatable symbols representing the presence, intensity, or frequency of characteristics. A case study of the use of content analysis is the U.S.…

This paper reviews and develops summary measures of associations between multiple sets of variables through the application of canonical correlation analysis. These measures are subsequently applied to a specific research problem: a study of the determinants of housing status. Some of the data analysis situations for which canonical correlation is…

The document presents a forecast model of the future Air Force applicant pool. By forecasting applicants' quality (means and standard deviations of aptitude scores) and quantity (total number of applicants), a potential enlistee could be compared to the forecasted pool. The data used to develop the model consisted of means, standard deviation, and…

This report briefly describes and analyzes several of the most frequently used techniques for depicting trends and making projections of education statistics. Each technique is described simply and nontechnically, with its uses and shortcomings, and a step-by-step analytical and graphic example and explanation. Projection techniques described…

A system of interaction analysis, the Instrument for the Analysis of Science Teaching (IAST, Part 1), and an accompanying sign system (IAST, Part 2) were developed. Originally used to analyze teaching behavior observed in elementary school classrooms where "Science--A Process Approach" was being taught, IAST was later found to be…

The use of a strategy for determining the comparable common factors in a set of data are illustrated in this report. Both orthogonal and oblique derived solutions were obtained for each of several different initial factor methods. The results were compared across the various solutions and three types of factors were determined: comparable common…

The report deals with the relationship between measurement and data analysis procedures in sociological research. The author finds that too many measured variables exist in both theory and measurement assumptions. Since these procedures are interrelated, improvements in either or both areas are necessary. Presented are three sections: (1) specific…

Assumptions, purposes, and factors of short range estimates and long range projections are discussed. The combined ratio method and the cohort-survival techniques were procedures used for making estimates and projections of student enrollment. The projection for the state system is discussed in terms of sub-projections for undergraduates,…

Two relatively new tools for analysis of data compiled in evaluation studies are presented. The National Test-Equating Study in Reading, known as the Anchor Test Study, produced tables of score-correspondence between the eight reading comprehension and vocabulary tests most widely used in the United States. Two types of tables from this report…

There are two distinct but related purposes for carrying out a "discriminant analysis": (1) discrimination, and (2) classification. The primary objective of this paper was to review the outputs of selected computer programs often used to carry out a "discriminant analysis" with respect to these two purposes. Information provided by the programs on…

This paper summarizes the progress of the review of enrollment made by the New York State Regents. The analysis and projections in this paper are limited to full-time, undergraduate, degree-credit enrollment. Detailed data concerning historical trends and projections are contained in the appendix to this paper. The paper attempts to focus on two…

Although recent writings indicate the importance of personal contact structures in diffusing innovations and in determining perceptions, the internal contact structure of the school faculty remains unexamined. This study applies directed graph theory, a new branch of mathematics, to analyzing school contact structure. Sociometric data and…