The topic of differential diagnosis and its application to the use of the Revised Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA) and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) is discussed. The theoretical bases for differential diagnosis and the properties of assessment instruments with diagnostic properties are presented.…

This study was a sixth account of a longitudinal investigation of the effects of the operation of a curriculum engineering system in a school district. Specific objectives were to observe the effects of leadership, climate, and curriculum engineering on teacher attitudes and teacher performance in a curriculum system and on student achievement. A…

The ROTC/Army Career Commitment Model focused on the process of career commitment during the young adult years by examining the career path of an Army officer via the ROTC route. Research questions were related to who joins ROTC and why, who remains as a career Army officer and why, and background factors which increase or decrease commitment to…

The purpose of this report is to explain the procedures by which the Chicago public schools have attempted to equalize local school per-pupil costs. It is a case study designed to illustrate what one urban school system is doing to finance equity among schools. There are five major considerations related to the program to equalize per-pupil costs:…

The "Presidents' Study" is a collection, classification, and analysis of weekly student contact hours (WSCH) and full-time equivalent (FTE) faculty data gathered from a number of participating California community colleges. The data are treated by various formulae, ratios, and graphs to indicate loads, trends, and costs. Unfortunately,…

This explanatory booklet and the materials that accompany it have two major purposes. The first purpose is to provide local school officials information regarding the performance on basic skills achievement of each student who took the 1972-73 Michigan Educational Assessment Battery. The second purpose is to provide local officials with…

The purpose of this booklet is to assist the reader in understanding and utilizing the local district and local school reports provided by the Michigan Educational Assessment Program for the testing period January 1973. This document accompanies the data sheets and norm tables provided to each district and is intended to facilitate their use. This…

Composed entirely of statistical tables, this report documents historical change in the residential projections of Northeast Alabama youth. Comparing 1968 data with 1972 data, tabulations are presented by race (black and white), sex, and place of residence (large city, small city, town and village, open country nonfarm and farm) for the following…

The main purpose of this monograph was to add to the understanding of interrelationships of measures of concept learning within and across subject-matter fields and their relationships with basic cognitive abilities. This monograph reports on the entire project, drawing much information from prior published individual reports which are referenced.…

The success of objectives-based programs depends to a considerable extent on how effectively students and teachers assess mastery of objectives and make decisions for future instruction. While educators disagree on the usefulness of criterion-referenced tests the position taken in this monograph is that criterion-referenced tests are useful, and…

This research summary is said to attempt to solve some of the documented limitations in the self-concept literature by analyzing racial variations in a causal model of the formation of a specific component of self related to the "school learning experience"--academic self-concept. The data for this research came from a larger study of the…

The military orientations of rural East Texas black and white high school students interviewed in 1966 were very similar; those of metropolitan and nonmetropolitan youth also did not differ much. Since then, status projections of Texas youth have been extended by adding a sample of Mexican American sophomores (1966) to compare with the East Texas…

The study examines the increasing levels of female labor in the economy over the period between 1940 and 1970. Married women with husbands present show the most pronounced increase in participation rates with increases in every age group. Chart 1 and Table 1 present data on the percentage of women in the U. S. labor force over this period by both…

Appendix A, "Data Analysis When Students Change from Smaller to Larger Schools between the Pre-test and Post-test of the First Year," discusses a methodological problem involved in planning the approximate number of questionnaires to be administered in program. Appendix B, "Estimates of Sample Sizes and Data Collection Costs," includes five…

Four major component areas of the Hazard (Kentucky) Educational Region were sampled using questionnaires, tests, and interviews in an effort to assess the effects of a regional career education program. The community component, randomly selected to achieve a five percent representative sample, was examined for major variables associated with the…