This document is a compilation of classroom aids for teachers using statistical data appearing in World Eagle publications. Six teachers and the editors of World Eagle supplied specific examples of materials generated for classroom drills, tests, and assignments. Classroom assignments and documents are designed to teach statistical information…

The Los Angeles Unified School District has chosen the class of 2000, comprised of those students who enrolled in kindergarten in 1987 and who will graduate from high school in June 2000, for concentrated educational focus and detailed evaluation. A three-class cohort, which includes the class of 2000 and the classes that immediately precede and…

This publication discusses four models for technical preparation (tech prep): program organization; student progress; tech prep data collection and evaluation model; and school/community. The program organization model is divided into four sections. Section I, the business industry, and labor section, shows the flow from craft committee and…

Prepared for the faculty and staff of the Kent State University Regional Campuses, this fact book provides an overview of the system, including data on students, faculty, staff, and programs. The first section presents general information on the regional campus system, its mission, each member campus, the organization and administration of the…

To learn more about the Regional Educational Service Agencies (RESA), Research for Better Schools initiated a multi-year study of RESAs in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. This report specifically describes local educators' perceptions about RESA services and the content areas in which RESAs offered help. It also suggests how successful service…

The first in a 10-volume report, this volume provides an overview of the NETWORK school improvement study as a whole, placing it within the context of federal dissemination-related school improvement policies and programs. Existing research on these programs is examined and synthesized, and the evolution of the federal role in dissemination is…

One of a series of publications to assist Australian secondary school instructors in teaching social studies skills, this booklet introduces students to methods of using the library, media, and local community for data collection. Ten chapters provide a wide variety of activities for using the library; studying the local community; using street…

The sources and amounts of funds available for Illinois pre-kindergarten through post-secondary educational programs are explained in this monograph. The publication contains a summary of fiscal year 1984 appropriations and fiscally related legislation, as well as a brief explanation of state revenues and sources of local revenues. Chapter 1…

This district plan for a computer education program contains objectives for grades K-8, course descriptions for grades 9-12, descriptions of three special programs, and data related to computer inventories and budgets. Accompanying the K-8 objectives, which are listed separately for each grade level, are activities/procedures and methods of…

While gathering the 1980 census, the U.S. Census Bureau tried several methods of improving its training of census interviewers. This paper covers three general areas of that experiment. First, it reviews bureau efforts to improve verbatim training and presents selected results from an alternative training experiment conducted in the 1980 census.…

Research on educational and criminal justice programs sought to clarify the relationship between organizational characteristics and innovation adoption. It focused on the reasons why organizations adopt innovations and the differences in clientele, staff, and decision-making participation between organizations adopting or unaware of an innovative…

Many studies of educational outcomes collect data on the socioeconomic characteristics of parents from students, and not from the parents themselves. Nevertheless, students are often fallible informants of parental status factors. A series of distinct hierarchical measurement models were used to examine the structure of errors in high school…

Keyboarding as writing apparatus is an essential skill in the technological era and more self-regulated learners perform better in keyboarding than less self-regulated learners. In order to indicate this, students registered at the Faculty of Arts for a compulsory keyboarding and word-processing course completed a questionnaire to identify both…

Introduction: Information literacy education is central for students as a building block for functioning citizenship in an information rich world. To support students' development of information skills we need an awareness of underlying factors behind information seeking habits. This article will discuss whether differences in middle and high…

This report builds on and extends existent research on population invariance to new tests and issues. The authors lay the foundation for a deeper understanding of the use of population invariance measures in a wide variety of practical contexts. The invariance of linear, equipercentile and IRT equating methods are examined using data from five…