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Fiedler, Judith – 1979
In-depth interviews with a randomly selected sample of 192 University of Washington faculty members who reported conducting scholarly research investigated their need for and utilization of a number of university support services. Users were asked to evaluate the services they had used, to identify any problems encountered, and to suggest…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Faculty, Financial Needs, Grantsmanship
Mediax Associates, Inc., Westport, CT. – 1980
This technical report discusses the development of a framework for identifying a battery of measures to be used in evaluating Head Start program effects on children 3 to 7 years of age. The report consists of an overview and five chapters, and provides eight appendices (in two additional volumes). Among the topics addressed are background…
Descriptors: Classification, Data Collection, Developmental Tasks, Individual Characteristics
MCGRATH, G.D.; AND OTHERS – 1962
REPORTED HERE ARE EVALUATIVE FINDINGS OF FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE SUCCESS OR FAILURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION FOR SOUTHWESTERN INDIANS. DATA PREVIOUSLY COLLECTED BY GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, INDIAN TRIBES, AND OTHERS WERE COLLECTED AND ORGANIZED FOR ANALYSIS. INTERVIEWS AND QUESTIONNAIRES WERE THEN USED TO OBTAIN DATA FROM 43 HIGHER EDUCATION…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Academic Failure, American Indians
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LAWRENCE, RICHARD G. – 1967
BECAUSE THE SUCCESS OF INTERVENTION DEPENDS UPON THE VALIDITY OF THE PROPOSITIONS EMPLOYED, AND BECAUSE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ASSURES VALIDITY BY PROVIDING THE MOST SYSTEMATIC AND RIGOROUS ATTENTION TO PROBLEMS, THE UTILIZATION OF RESEARCH IS IMPORTANT TO SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE. SEVERAL FACTORS LIMIT ITS USE--(1) ALTHOUGH CONCEPTS ARE CLEARLY DEFINED…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Behavioral Sciences, College Curriculum, College Faculty
REES, MARYJANE; AND OTHERS – 1967
RESEARCH IS NEEDED TO DETERMINE THE AGE AT WHICH A CHILD WITH A FUNCTIONAL ARTICULATORY DISORDER SHOULD BEGIN THERAPY AND THE FREQUENCY OF THERAPY. THE AUTHORS REJECTED THE SURVEY METHOD BECAUSE OF ITS MANY LIMITATIONS. RESEARCH, USING THE EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH, WAS PLANNED TO SCREEN 30,000 CHILDREN, 724 OF WHOM WOULD BE ASSIGNED TO THERAPY,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Auditory Tests, Auditory Training, Certification
CHRISTENSEN, VIRGIL E.; AND OTHERS – 1967
THE STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, THE PURPOSES AND OBJECTIVES, THE PROCEDURES NEEDED TO ACHIEVE THE OBJECTIVES, RESOURCES (LEADERSHIP, INSTITUTIONS, SOURCES OF FUNDS), AND EXPECTED RESULTS ARE OUTLINED FOR 10 PROPOSED RESEARCH STUDIES--(1) "DESIGN FOR CAREER CHOICE," (2) "EARLY IDENTIFICATION AND SELECTION…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Attitudes, Career Choice, Career Guidance
Caswell, Hollis L. – 1979
Limitations of interpretations of revisionist historians concerning educational development in the 1930s and 1940s are examined. Revisionists have made uninformed assumptions about educational practice and have ignored significant aspects of educational development. Often their conclusions are too limited in scope. For example, they tend to view…
Descriptors: Bias, Educational Assessment, Educational History, Educational Objectives
Shuell, Thomas J.
This overview of recent research on individual differences especially concerns that research which relates to human learning and instruction. Several major areas of research are identified, and within each area various issues related to that area and representative studies are discussed. Whenever possible, references to more comprehensive reviews…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests
Hyman, Irwin A. – 1979
A search of the literature was made on the effectiveness of recruitment and selection procedures for identifying and retaining administrators and school staff who are effective in managing student conflict and alienation. A classification scheme devised to fit approaches to school discipline within a theoretical framework includes (1) the…
Descriptors: Administrators, Behavior Change, Behavior Theories, Bibliographies
Hellweg, Susan A.; Churchman, David A. – 1979
Four problems that will be of major concern to academic institutions granting graduate degrees in the coming decade and ways in which sponsored research can help solve them are discussed. The four problems are defined as: (1) the threat posed to research performed by faculty by increased teaching loads; (2) the increasing lack of opportunities for…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Faculty, Conference Reports, Faculty Development
Murray, Stephen L. – 1978
The norm-referenced evaluation model (RMC Model A) for Title I project evaluation, consists of procedures whereby the expected posttest standing of a treatment group under the null condition is generated from their pretest standing. It is assumed that the treatment group is not selected on the basis of their pretest scores and can be considered…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Echternacht, Gary; Swinton, Spencer – 1979
Title I evaluations using the RMC Model C design depend for their interpretation on the assumption that the regression of posttest on pretest is linear across the cut score level when there is no treatment; but there are many instances where nonlinearities may occur. If one applies the analysis of covariance, or model C analysis, large errors may…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Analysis of Covariance, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Norrblom, Eva – 1977
Thirteen studies have evaluated the potential benefits from military training that individuals gain upon leaving active duty. Despite the fact that three-fourths of military jobs have direct civilian counterparts, most of these studies indicate that military training does not have a positive effect on the civilian job opportunities for veterans.…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Employment Opportunities, Human Capital, Job Training
Elliott, Paul H.; Watson, Paul G. – 1976
The Model Secondary School for the Deaf is exploring research areas in which computer-assisted instruction (CAI) plays a major role. Research in the area of learning styles and strategies of deaf adolescents is being aided by CAI data gathering systems. Also under investigation is the use of CAI and visual thinking for deaf adolescents. Curriculum…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs, Computers
Busch, Georg – 1974
This study is an update of earlier work conducted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), on social selection in education. The former study, published in 1970, covers 19 of the 25 OECD countries and has no data for Australia, Canada, Finland, Iceland, New Zealand, or Turkey. The present paper includes later data for…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Mobility, Educational Opportunities, Equal Education
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