This document describes the process by which aspects of nonverbal communication that appear to be indicators of involvement were identified, described, classified, and rated. To facilitate this process, an Action Category System was developed through observation in the natural classroom setting and subsequent analyses of the recorded behavior…

This book is intended to give teacher education students and practicing teachers an introduction to research methods and does so by following the procedures and results of a recent study. Chapter 1 discusses the research problem and the procedures for setting up a research design. Chapter 2 discusses the major stages of field work. Chapter 3…

This study is designed to develop a checklist of teacher competencies (TECOMP I) based on an analysis of teaching tasks in keeping with a cybernetic model, to secure and analyze critical responses to the checklist items, to relate these judgments to the characteristics of the several items, and to clarify issues regarding the construction and…

This report describes research on the New Haven labor market carried out during the summer and fall of 1969 and the spring of 1970. The aims of the research were to develop further the theoretical approach to micro-labor economics in a local labor market and to test the feasibility of collecting data from local firms which could be used to test…

This report of the Joint Committee on Educational Goals and Evaluation to the California Legislature discusses the need for educational goals and evaluation, the committee investigation, and the collection of information. As a result of the investigation, it was concluded that: (1) it is essential that the goal-setting process include the…

A comprehensive study of the vocational education needs, services, and funding in the State of Washington was made and recommendations provided to the State Legislature based on analysis of the data collected. The total study report was issued in two parts. This document, Part One of the study, summarizes the major findings and presents…

This handbook is the first of two volumes designed to assist manpower planners in the use of data from the 1970 Decennial Census of Population and Housing. Intended to facilitate data gathering, improve the quality of analysis, and provide suggestions for identifying community needs, the handbook attempts to break down the mass of available census…

This instrument was developed to assist educational leaders in the collection of data relating to the attitudes of their publics on vital social and educational concerns. It classifies the concerns under: social problems, school program, teachers and instruction, administration, students, and index of attitude toward change. It provides for…

Forms used for data collection in the Cornell-OEO Project fall into the categories of recruitment and selection, family assistant training, in-service training, supervisory records of family assistants, service-family contacts and visits, reports on visits to Cornell-OEO Project, work with groups outside the project, and analysis forms.…

Data collection and analysis as a cybernetic aspect of a Learning Assistance Center (LAC) is discussed. Using the LAC at California State University Long Beach (CSULB) as a model, the LAC is defined as a support, delivery, and referral service for the entire campus community. A LAC is held accountable to itself and its users through a cybernetics…

An evaluative study of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program in Maryland was made. The study aimed at the assessment of the results of this program currently conducted by the University of Maryland. The object of the program is to influence homemakers to change and improve family nutritional practices. This study focused on the…

This report presents the technical details of the sample design used for the day care survey conducted by Westat Research, Inc. under subcontract to Westinghouse Learning Corporation. It follows the recommendations of the preliminary report on sampling design (available as ED 051 880) submitted on August 15, 1970. That report presented the merits…

This second volume of a research report on manpower information availability compares alternative sources of manpower data in a poverty area of Philadelphia. The first volume recognizes the need for data, yet it ignores the statistical problems of comparability, comprehensiveness, and accessibility inherent in the agency records which were…

This study provides the officials of Tempe, Arizona, with a wide range of baseline information regarding citizen attitudes toward the City. It contains a design for an information system which could increase the breadth of information available for decision-making city officials and increase citizen participation in the process. Sixteen community…

The ICED Data Bank is an information system which collects and stores data on international programs conducted by accredited 4-year colleges and universities in the US. The types of international programs defined by the Data Bank are: area studies, topical, other on-campus, work-study and in-service, training, faculty abroad, exchange, technical…