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Hughes, Fergus P. – 1980
The recent phenomenon of the "returning adult" to colleges has raised concern regarding two implications: age decline in intellectual ability and loss due to lack of practice. Literature indicates slight impairment of the problem-solving function until the years of advanced age. The degree of impairment is related to factors of educational…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Hubert, John A. – 1978
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I Evaluation and Reporting System is a method for giving a federally funded project in reading or math an overall score on its cognitive effectiveness. This System introduced the Normal Curve Equivalent (NCE) as an aid in aggregating Title I program scores across states and nationwide regardless of…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Compensatory Education, Control Groups
Dawson, George G. – 1980
Based on a review of 60 studies, this three-part report analyzes the research to date on economics education in the two-year college. After introductory material noting the growing interest in research in economics education, Part I describes the three broad categories into which the studies fall: (1) fact-finding studies, designed to determine…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Curriculum Research
Czechoslovakian UNESCO Commission, Prague. – 1967
THIS INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR, ORGANIZED BY THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE CZECHOSLOVAKIAN TRADE UNION OF EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL WORKERS AND SUPPORTED BY UNESCO AND THE CZECHOSLOVAKIAN UNESCO COMMISSION, BROUGHT TOGETHER 118 SPECIALISTS IN MASS MEDIA FROM 14 COUNTRIES. THE AIMS OF THE SEMINAR WERE TO ACCELERATE WORK RELATING TO CONTRIBUTIONS OF…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavioral Sciences, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs
Airasian, Peter W.; And Others – 1979
The methodological parameters of evaluative research studies help to identify a conceptualization of the phenomenon under investigation. Holistic critiques that identify the conceptual models under which the research was conducted shed light on the validity of the disparate inferences made from a number of studies of schools and school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Concept Formation, Data Analysis, Data Collection
National Inst. of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. Educational Equity Group. Desegregation Studies Div. – 1975
The emphases of this paper are identification of system mechanisms and processes employed to achieve and enhance racial resegregation in education, placing an understanding of these mechanisms and processes within the context of the national desegregation efforts, presentation of the rationale for the National Institute of Education including…
Descriptors: Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Discipline Policy, Educationally Disadvantaged
Horst, Donald P.; And Others – 1974
Directors of educational projects need to be aware of the consequences their decisions may have for evaluation and appreciate the need for working closely with their evaluators from the earliest planning stage. Attempting to address the needs of project directors and evaluators, this guidebook deals with one central aspect of project…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Analysis of Covariance, Cognitive Measurement, Data Analysis
Glaser, Ezra – 1975
This guide is essentially designed as a teaching aid for those who would inform planners, officials of educational ministries, school administrators, principals, and teachers about educational outcome measurements. In outline and graphic form, the guide presents topics for discussion in a seminar dealing with the application of outcome…
Descriptors: Budgets, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Cost Effectiveness
Wisenbaker, Joseph M. – 1975
Suggesting that James Coleman's paper on massive school desegragation reveals methodological flaws of such magnitude that they raise serious questions as to the validity of the conclusions, this paper addresses a full sequence of perceived methodological errors found in the Coleman document, but does not dismiss the conclusions based upon initial…
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Educational Policy, Educational Research
Teplin, Linda A. – 1975
Interracial/interethic choice patterns of 398 third and fourth grade children are measured utilizing various methods, including both projectively-based and reality-based paradigms. Attempts are made to establish the equivalence or nonequivalence of the different methodologies used to assess interracial choice patterns. Results indicate that all…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Relations
Lewis, Hylan – 1974
This paper has a dual purpose. First, it relates the research and writings of DuBois, a social scientist and humanist in the best intellectual tradition of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to the sociology of the black family in the United States; and second, it presents selected data having to do with the structure and functioning of…
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Culture, Black Employment, Black History
Horst, Donald P.; And Others – 1975
Measuring cognitive achievement gains in project evaluation is dealt with. This guide provides those concerned with project evaluation with the basic tools for conducting technically sound, interpretable evaluation studies. Exotic designs are avoided and five basic models which appear feasible to implement in real-world settings are focused on.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Cognitive Development, Data Analysis

Merrimack Education Center, Chelmsford, MA. – 1972
The need for a new function in education, that of the knowledge linker, is advanced. The need for a linker is explained in terms of a presumed gap between the researcher and the practitioner. The linker's suggested role in ascertaining the practitioner's needs and translating the researcher's findings is outlined. Various problems with the concept…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Diffusion, Educational Research, Elementary Education
McKay, James William – 1968
An intensive investigation analyzing and summarizing the scientific research and professional literature on reading interests of secondary school students was undertaken with the ultimate goal of assembling data which could be used to improve teaching and learning in the area of reading. Using an historical approach, considerable attention was…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age, Educational History, Intelligence
Utah Research Coordinating Unit for Vocational and Technical Education, Salt Lake City. – 1966
The purpose of the workshop was to involve 30 vocational and technical teachers, supervisors, and administrators from eight states in activities to stimulate and enhance research activities. Presentations and handouts included: (1) "Vocational Education in the Decade Ahead--With Research Implications" by Ray E. Jongeward, (2) "Guidelines for the…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Educational Research, Information Dissemination, Institutes (Training Programs)