Two major concerns should be considered as the federal effort to collect educational data is redesigned. The concerns involve the roles performed by school personnel and the effect of student characteristics on achievement. Obtaining accurate measures of school district personnel--how many, what type, and what they do--is difficult. However,…

The growing interest in human resources development (HRD) is a response to the increasingly competitive business environment which, in turn, has been shaped by such forces as the emergence of global competition, the quickening pace of technological innovation and the reduction of federal regulations in some industries. This monograph seeks to…

This paper reviews trends in resource allocations in the public schools over the last 25 years. It focuses specifically on changes in expenditures and school staff for the nation as a whole and for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, using data from the National Center for Education Statistics and the National Education Association…

This study was conducted to determine whether the traditional classroom approach to instruction involving the addition and subtraction of number facts (digits 0-6) is more or less effective than the traditional classroom approach plus a commercially-prepared computer game. A pretest-posttest control group design was used with two groups of first…

The usefulness of studying thought processes in the construct validation of ability tests was examined using a sample consisting of 343 Canadian senior high school students. Four levels of probing were used by the interviewer to examine the students' thinking processes while taking the Test on Appraising Observations: (1) think aloud; (2)…

This curriculum guide is designed for use in familiarizing students enrolled in business and office occupations courses with the capabilities and operation of computers. The first part of the guide includes a brief description of the course and explains who should take and who should teach computer literacy courses, how much time is necessary to…

This inventory provides profiles, tables, and listings of automated library activities at 115 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) institutions. The library profile covers 18 functions: (1) acquisitions; (2) serials check/claim; (3) serials/union list; (4) authority control; (5) cataloging/utility; (6) cataloging/local; (7) circulation; (8)…

Descriptive statistics are presented on students in Florida's State University System (SUS) who were previously enrolled in one of the state's 28 community colleges. A series of 16 tables presents fall term data for 1984 through 1986, including information on students' sex, race, and age; SUS enrollment rate of former community college students;…

This report includes state-level tabulations of basic data on the numbers, sizes, types, and grade spans of public schools in the United States for the school year 1986-87. The data are based on information from the Common Core of Data series of the Center for Education Statistics. Nine tables summarize statistical information supplied to the…

As part of the National Longitudinal Survey of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS-72), a Teaching Supplement mail questionnaire was sent to all respondents to the fifth follow-up survey who indicated they had a teaching background or trained for teaching (N=1,517). The instrument focused on the qualifications, experiences and attitudes of current…

There has been great interest in disparities in revenues and expenditures of school districts based upon the school district's educational background, median family income, and racial makeup. Accordingly, this study correlates each school districts' expenditures, various supports, and revenues with the district's educational background, median…

The four papers in this compilation report on some of the recent core programs of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA): (1) "The IFLA Universal Bibliographic Control and International Machine Readable Cataloging Programme (UBCIM)" (Ross Bourne, IFLA UBCIM Programme Officer); (2) "The IFLA UAP (Universal…

Prepared to support the self-study and strategic planning processes at Los Medanos College (LMC), in Pittsburgh, California, this fact book offers information about LMC's students, staff, programs, services, facilities, and expenditures. The first section focuses on the student population, including a trend analysis and longitudinal data on…

This handbook is designed to serve as a resource guide to New York school district officials who are involved in the application approval, hearing, and verification processes for the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs, and for those exercising the free milk option of the Special Milk Program. Detailed information and clarification…

The annual performance report of the Austin Independent School District (AISD) for the 1986-87 school year contains the information required by the State Board of Education reconfigured into district-level and campus-level (individual school) information. Data include: the Superintendent's Report for 1986-87, dropout rates, class size above…