This paper contains sample exercises that investigate weather and air quality relationships for use in college-level introductory courses in climatology and meteorology. The exercises will provide students with an opportunity to apply meteorological principles to a specific geographic location, in an effort to better understand the significant…

A detailed description is provided of the variable interorganizational relations (IOR), which is part of the analysis in phase I of the Evaluation of Practices in Individualized Schooling. The variable is defined; the questionnaires on which the variable is based are listed; the procedures used to scale the variable are explained; the distribution…

The Metropolitan Educational Development and Research Project (MEDARP) Documentation Unit, located in the Office of Educational Evaluation (OEE) at the New York City Board of Education, is funded by the Ford Foundation to document, evaluate and provide technical assistance to the School Improvement and Local School Development Projects; these are…

In researching educational change, an analytical tool for analyzing and coding change process interventions has been produced. This paper describes the development of the coding system, the intervention assumptions underlying it, the dimensions and kinds of interventions, with illustrative examples of each, activities for clustering some…

University information systems are designed to make decisions easier and to provide good information for administrative tasks. Data do not by themselves produce better decisions, and more data can make agreement on issues more complicated. When collegial decisions are made, the precise impact of data and models is uncertain. When there is no…

This study was designed to measure the economic impact on state agencies, AFDC recipients and child care providers if day care payments were calculated as income disregards rather than Title XX expenditures. The methodology, used in preliminary surveys in four states (North Carolina, Oregon, California and Maine) consisted of three major steps:…

The purpose of this paper is to illuminate the advantages of path analysis for the exposition of results in data analytic papers. Probably the greatest advantage is that it provides a means by which the nature of the problem may be handily summarized. The method of path analysis, although conceived over sixty years ago by Sewell Wright, has only…

The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze competencies needed by local vocational administrators and to develop an administration model for training local vocational administrators in Mississippi. An inventory of competencies was developed through a review of related literature and was revised by a panel of five workshop participants.…

Social scientists in the United States have been reluctant to use ideological/demographic research to explain and predict voting behavior because of criticism from survey researchers that such an approach provides interpretations only of aggregate data, cannot establish a direct causal link between independent characteristics and voting behavior,…

A persistent problem in aptitude-treatment interaction (ATI) research has been the need for a better conceptualization of instructional treatments. The concerns are important in the analysis of instructional treatments: the importance of considering the psychological processes called upon by the instructional treatment, and the ecological validity…

The authors describe the development and use of a structured, data base approach to developing individual education programs for special education students. The components of the "Data-Based Program Modification" (DBPM) approach are described to include five decision areas: problem selection; program selection (least restrictive yet most…

The paper presents an overview of enrollment in college-level geography courses from 1949 to 1978 and predicts enrollment trends for the near future. All data are based on the Directory of College Geography of the United States. First published in 1949, the directory lists all college and university departments offering geography, the size and…

DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED IS A CODING SYSTEM FOR TRANSLATING ON-GOING BEHAVIOR OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS INTO A NUMERICAL LANGUAGE, THUS PERMITTING THE DATA TO BE SUMMARIZED AND ANALYZED BY COMPUTER. APPROACH IS BASED ON OBSERVATION. THE OBSERVER, WHO BECOMES PART OF THE ENVIRONMENT, REPORTS INTO A TAPE RECORDER THE RESPONSES OF THE MAIN FIGURE BEING…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT WAS TO STUDY STATE-LEVEL AGENCIES AND THEIR ADMINISTRATION OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IN 50 STATES, THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, AND PUERTO RICO, AND TO UTILIZE THE FINDINGS IN DEVELOPING A FORMAT AND CRITERIA WHICH THE AGENCIES COULD USE FOR SELF-ANALYSIS. SUBUNITS OF THE PROJECT ARE--(1) CURRENT STATUS SURVEY, (2) POLICY…

Approaches to data analysis used by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and possible alternative methodologies are reviewed. Since various components of the NAEP model affect analysis, key elements of that model, including procedures for developing objectives and exercises, drawing the sample, collecting data and reporting…