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Riley, Susan – 1980
Designed for use by vocational education students in nontraditional programs, this handbook contains support group activities pertaining to group cohesion, understanding the nature of sex bias, assertiveness, group projects, sexual harassment, and laws governing sex fairness. Group cohesion activities designed to help group members get to know…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Civil Rights Legislation, Definitions, Equal Education
Milanovich, Norma; Turpen, Kathryn – 1980
Plans for units and lessons that help make elementary and secondary students aware of sexism are presented in this book. The plans encompass the following curriculum areas: art, athletics and physical education, career education, language arts, mathematics, social studies, and special education. Each plan includes a statement of the problem,…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Affirmative Action, Art Education, Career Education
Kreunen, Warren L. – 1981
Chapter 3 in a book on school law discusses a few of the many issues in the area of education for the handicapped which are being litigated in courts and agencies throughout the United States. Specifically, the chapter covers litigation regarding the application of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, referred to as Public Law 94-142,…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation, Disabilities
Sorg, Steven E. – 1980
The status of sex equity practices in vocational education in Florida was assessed to provide a data base of identified needs related to sex equity. An advisory committee developed 115 goal statements describing the activities vocational educators would be engaged in to achieve the ideal status of sex equity in vocational education. Surveys of…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Counselor Attitudes, Educational Needs, Needs Assessment
Download full textJacobs, Judith E., Ed. – 1978
The papers presented in the strand on "Women and Mathematics" at the 1978 Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics form the core of this monograph. Two commentaries synthesizing the presentations and offering additional suggestions for action are also included. The papers consider sex-related differences in…
Descriptors: Achievement, Anxiety, Attitudes, Bibliographies
Crane, Laura R.; Cech, Joseph – 1979
Normal curve equivalent achievement gains estimates were compared with RMC Title I evaluation Models A1 and B1. The comparison focused upon the amount of bias introduced by Model A1 when its underlying assumptions were violated. The model assumes, first, that the local school population is accurately represented by the national norm group; and…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Control Groups, Early Childhood Education
Bormuth, John R. – 1978
The feasibility of criterion referenced testing is held to be dependent on the tenability of two postulates: (1) that bias can be controlled in a principled manner from one test to the next; and (2) that one mental process measured by such tests may lawfully interact with another. Without the first postulate, criterion scores could not be…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Career Development, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cutting Scores
Bracken, Jeanne, Comp.; Wigutoff, Sharon, Comp. – 1979
Growing from a study of commercially produced books published since 1972 that appeared to be nonsexist or role free, this publication contains critical annotations of 193 picture books. The selections include stories of nonwhite cultures, single-parent homes, and women in nontraditional work roles and deal with diverse experiences such as…
Descriptors: Adoption, Annotated Bibliographies, Books, Childrens Literature
Williams, Stephen R.; Folsom, Ralph E., Jr. – 1976
As in any very large survey, the sample that provided data for the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS) differed from the random sample of the study design because of nonresponse from 226 of the 1,200 schools in the primary sample, and a small amount of other missing data. Part A of this report, briefly describes the…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Followup Studies, Graduate Surveys, High School Graduates
Moody, Charles D., Sr., Ed.; Vergon, Charles B., Ed. – 1979
The reports presented in this volume are intended to provide a theoretical foundation for and practical applications of multicultural education. Included are the following titles: "Introduction," by Charles D. Moody, Sr.; "Cultural Pluralism: Curriculum Assessment, Development, Implementation and Evaluation," by Loretta Webb; "Multicultural…
Descriptors: Black Students, Black Studies, Cultural Pluralism, Culture Fair Tests
Patience, Wayne M.; Reckase, Mark D. – 1979
An experiment was performed with computer-generated data to investigate some of the operational characteristics of tailored testing as they are related to various provisions of the computer program and item pool. With respect to the computer program, two characteristics were varied: the size of the step of increase or decrease in item difficulty…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Difficulty Level, Error of Measurement
Frary, Robert B.; Giles, Mary B. – 1980
This paper describes the development and investigation of a new approach to determining the existence of bias in multiple-choice test scores. Previous work in this area has concentrated almost exclusively on bias attributable to specific test items or to differences in test score distributions across racial or ethnic groups. In contrast, the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Analysis of Variance, Goodness of Fit, Guessing (Tests)
Webber, Loydia; Phibbs, Susan – 1980
While it is not clear how much responsibility vocational education bears for the inequities in employment and earning patterns in Georgia, it is clear that men and women do not make vocational choices unencumbered by sex influences. Federal legislation provides mandates to reduce sex stereotyping and discrimination in vocational education. Sex…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Educational Discrimination, Educational Opportunities, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
FERMAN, LOUIS A. – 1966
TO STUDY THE APPLICATION OF EQUAL EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES IN COMPANY SETTINGS AND TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF THESE PRACTICES ON MINORITY GROUP EMPLOYMENT, 20 COMPANIES WITH VARYING EMPLOYMENT STRUCTURE, INDUSTRY, SIZE, NUMBER OF BRANCH UNITS, GEOGRAPHICAL SPREAD, AND PRODUCT OR SERVICE WERE STUDIED. ALL WERE TRYING TO PROMOTE EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES IN…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Employment, Blacks, Desegregation Methods
DAILEY, CHARLES A. – 1967
THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THIS PILOT STUDY WAS TO DESIGN A PROGRAM FOR TRAINING DECISION-MAKERS (EMPLOYERS) TO INTERACT WITH DISADVANTAGED PERSONS AND TO EVALUATE THEIR "CAREER POTENTIAL" MORE APPROPRIATELY. TRAINING METHODS INCLUDE THE USE OF VIDEOTAPE RECORDINGS AND PLAYBACK, AUDIOTAPE RECORDINGS OF INTERVIEWS AND PLAYBACK, SENSITIVITY TRAINING,…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Case Studies, Decision Making, Disadvantaged
