The value of early identification of sexually aberrant behaviors and intervention with sexually deviant minors is obvious from a community safety perspective. Early intervention also appears to have value from the offender's perspective. A research review revealed several common themes with implications for both assessment and treatment. Most…

The purpose of this dissertation was to evaluate a bilingual program using a method of longitudinal evaluation. A class of students who received instruction in grades K-2 in the Region I Bilingual Reading Project in Texas comprised the experimental group. The control group was composed of 27 older siblings of the experimental group. The control…

Sixty-four regionally accredited colleges and universities in Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska were surveyed to determine what practices existed in the evaluation of their administrators and to ascertain the basis upon which the evaluations were performed. Of the 51 responding institutions, 22 were two-year colleges and 29 were four-year…

The purposes of this dissertation are to develop a model which can be used to evaluate programed instructional materials in English; to apply this model to currently available programs in language, composition, and literature; and to describe both the early historical developments in programed instruction as an educational strategy in general and…

This study was designed to determine the difference, if any, in reading scores of disadvantaged fourth and fifth grade reading students when administered the Stanford Reading Tests (form W and Y) by either standard procedure or by tape. Fifty-three disadvantaged students of the Pawhuska (Oklahoma) elementary School were divided at random into two…

Described is the Summarized Factorial Assessment Outline (SFAO), a total assessment procedure for educable mentally retarded and learning disabled students which is centered on the three diagnostic processes of identification, interpretation, and prescription for remediation. Following an introduction covering the problem, purpose, need, and…

This study is concerned with the concept of rhetorical stance: the interrelationships among speaker, content, and audience in a communication situation. It is hypothesized that when the rhetorical stance model is applied to the secondary English curriculum, the teaching of literature will improve. This hypothesis is confirmed by evidence gained in…

This study analyzed current practices in teacher evaluation of English composition and attempted to establish a "fairer and faster" way of accomplishing such evaluation. Data were collected from departments of freshman English in Louisiana state colleges and universities, in order to form the basis of evaluation checklists from which behavioral…

Sixty students in four sections of freshman composition participated in a study comparing written corrections of student themes with oral, individualized evaluations in which the instructor explained problems and weaknesses in each theme and helped the student improve the writing. There were no other differences in the activities of the control…

The problem of this study was to find criteria, and a model, for judging written expression at the elementary level which can produce concordance of teacher judgments and be a possible basis for prescriptive teaching. Such a model was developed by the Affton School District. This study attempts to determine its utility. Twenty-four essays were…

The purpose of this study was to determine if a Web site evaluation tool can be developed based on the standards articulated by Association of College and Research Libraries and Project 2061 that could effectively assess science education Web sites. The study took place at Kent Roosevelt High School in ninth grade biology classes. Students were…

Accelerated Reader is a computer program designed by Advantage Learning Systems to assess students' reading comprehension levels and keep detailed and accurate reports of such findings. This research studied the Accelerated Reader program with a second grade class over a 6-week time frame. One class of 20 students read books picked from the…

Because of the rising interest in the relevance of psychology to missions, a number of empirical studies have been completed which address various issues pertaining to missionary selection, stress, and ongoing functioning. This paper presents a critique and synthesis of the empirical literature relevant to missionary selection, stress, and…

This report describes a program for improving attitudes of students and parents toward the visual arts in a highly mobile, heterogeneous, suburban community outside of Chicago, Illinois. The problem examined is an historic inability of the school district to establish a permanent art education program, evidenced by the numerous times that art has…

Academic library members of the Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET) responded to a computer library network effectiveness questionnaire to determine the extent to which actual network performance, as perceived by users, is consistent with expected performance. The study evaluated the technological system in terms of outputs and implications for…