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Direct linkLandau, Joshua D.; Lehr, Donald P. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2004
Undergraduates studied nonword exemplars and then created their own novel nonwords. In Experiment 1, people studied legal or illegal nonwords. In Experiment 2, people studied illegal nonwords, but to increase awareness of the features, half of the participants assessed the features of the nonwords. Despite instructions to avoid copying any aspect…
Descriptors: Imagination, Creative Thinking, Experiments, Experimental Groups
Peer reviewedJohnson, Gary P.; Mitten, Robert L. – Educational Planning, 1976
Demonstrates how a long-run average cost function was estimated for selected public elementary schools in Pennsylvania. The optimum sized elementary school was found to be one having 585.7 students and an educational plant of 71,832 square feet. Substantial economies of scale were evidenced up to the optimum attendance size. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Declining Enrollment, Economic Factors, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedLutz, Frank W.; Edgren, David J. – Journal of Law and Education, 1976
Analyzes the financial impact of Pennsylvania's Act 125, which distributed $132.5 million in additional state aid among the state's public school districts. (JG)
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid, Finance Reform
Shannon, Patrick, Ed.; Edmondson, Jacqueline, Ed. – International Reading Association (NJ3), 2005
This collection of articles delivers the knowledge and insights one needs to understand policymaking at many levels, by reviewing viewpoints in categories: (1) Policy-driven research; (2) Policy communications research; and (3) Critical policy research. Educators can use this book to learn how to analyze policy issues, engage in policymaking with…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Statistical Analysis, Reading Materials, Reading Research
Chapin, John; Coleman, Grace – Journal of School Violence, 2006
The study provides a unique portrait of young men self-identified as potential perpetrators of school violence, and explores the relative contributions of personal attributes and the media in the creation and preservation of optimistic biases. The study is the first to document optimistic bias among middle and high school students within the…
Descriptors: Violence, Student Attitudes, Educational Environment, Males
Caldwell, William E.; Houser, M. Kenneth – 1978
This study was designed to determine the effect of informal "meet and discuss" procedures on the parties involved in public school district collective bargaining. The authors investigated the relationships between employee organization and employer attitudes, the effectiveness of informal bargaining procedures, and the level of…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Elementary Secondary Education, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes
Download full textRoberts, Laura; White, George – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2004
There are effective conflict transformation programs available for students at the middle level. What is missing is a program designed to have an enduring message, that is, a message that is both positive and vivid. Project WIN provided a positive message by teaching students how to create a justice-based community in their classrooms and the…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Low Income Groups, Conflict, Urban Youth
ANDREWS, FRANCES M.; DEIHL, NED C. – 1967
CURRENT LITERATURE RELEVANT TO MUSIC EDUCATION OF CHILDREN STRESSES THE IMPORTANCE OF CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT BASED ON A CONCEPTUAL APPROACH TO MUSIC LEARNING. THERE BEING LITTLE UNDERSTANDING OF CHILDREN'S CONCEPTS OF BASIC MUSICAL ELEMENTS ON WHICH TO FOUND SUCH CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, AN INSTRUMENT WAS DEVELOPED TO IDENTIFY THE IDEAS REGARDING…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Students
Burson, William W. – 1971
To assist Pennsylvania school personnel in interpreting the reports resulting from that State's Educational Quality Assessment program, this manual provides information on the goals, dimensions measured, variables measured, and method used. Appendixes provide the school norms for Grade 5 and Grade 11, a Teacher Questionnaire, School Information…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Quality, Evaluation Criteria, Measurement Instruments
PDF pending restorationNunemaker, George R. – Our Colleges and Universities Today, 1976
This publication provides statistical data and trends for all institutions of higher education in Pennsylvania. All institutions in Pennsylvania responded to this survey. The data were obtained directly from the institutions on schedules supplied by the State Department of Education in cooperation with the National Education Association's annual…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Occupational Surveys, Schools of Education, Secondary School Teachers
Senier, John – 1975
Population projections developed by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 1970 to 2000, have been updated to report the latest information on fertility and mortality trends and migration within the State. Methology utilized closely resembles the cohort component procedure, with multiple regression analysis applied to historical information for…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Demography, Educational Planning, Futures (of Society)
Madden J. Patrick; Yoder, Marion D. – 1971
Since one primary goal of the Commodity Distribution (CD) Program and the Food Stamp (FS) Program is to improve diets of low-income families, this 1969-70 study focused on whether the adequacy of a low-income family's dietary intake was improved by their participation in a food-assistance program. As stated, the adequacy of a family's dietary…
Descriptors: Dietetics, Eating Habits, Economic Research, Federal Programs
Goldbach, Robert L. – 1988
A tracking system which monitors Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) mentally retarded students leaving the school system to make their transition to adult life, was developed to: (1) enhance the prospects for successful follow-up; (2) enable program planners to conduct systematic inquiries regarding the abilities, living arrangements, and work…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Database Management Systems, Education Work Relationship, Employment
Barndt, Jacqueline Grasse – 1979
The document contrasts, compares, describes, interprets, and generalizes about needs, activities, and objectives of music education programs in accredited, nonaccredited, public, and nonpublic secondary schools. The objective of the study was to provide information about the strengths and weaknesses of the music education programs so that…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Curriculum Evaluation, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Assessment
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. Bureau of Educational Quality Assessment. – 1971
The results of the Pennsylvania Educational Quality Assessment program, Phase II, are interpreted. The first section of the manual presents a statement of each of the Ten Goals of Quality Education which served as the basis of the assessment. Also included are the key items on the questionnaires administered to 5th and 11th grade students. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Quality, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
