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Download full textHenderson, Karla A. – 1984
An analysis was made of the professional and psycho-social characteristics of 24 Wisconsin women who held management positions in the leisure services field. Comparisons were made between these managers and other women employed in leisure services, but the major focus was in delineating the uniqueness of these women managers and comparing how they…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Career Choice, Employed Women, Individual Characteristics
Goodyear, Don; Webb, Elaine – 1989
Designed as a means of communicating information related to students to faculty and staff at the College of the Sequoias (COS), in California, this collection of quarterly newsletters by the college's Office of Institutional Research summarizes recent research projects, highlights data on student demographics from state and local studies, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Grade Point Average
Counts, Sharon; Silverman, Debra Larson – 1985
A summary is presented of findings from a survey that sought to record the opinions of teachers and administrators in the Alaskan schools on key educational issues. Results of previous nationwide surveys are synthesized on the topics of teacher education programs, teacher certification, inservice teacher education programs, and incentive programs.…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Board of Education Role, Higher Education, Incentives
Education Trust, Washington, DC. – 1996
This book provides basic data on educational attainment, achievement, and practices for each state and the United States as a whole, with a focus on the academic-achievement gap between minority and white students. The first part provides an overview of the national picture of education, describing academic achievement, expenditures and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Attainment
Blank, Rolf K.; Manise, Jennifer Gifford; Brathwaite, Barbara C. – 1997
This report presents information across states on a number of education indicators. It offers state profile information about students and their achievement, teachers, and standards for student learning. It also includes special data about the education of children in poverty and the assistance they receive toward achieving state standards through…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Disabilities, Educational Indicators
Liu, Liang Y. – 1997
The statewide school survey monitors trends in substance use among public school students, identifies emerging problem areas, and serves as a basis of comparison for local school surveys. Chapter 1 covers "Description of Survey and Study Limitations." Chapter 2, "Comparisons with National and Other Texas Data," presents comparisons to the National…
Descriptors: Drinking, Drug Use, High School Students, Inhalants
Davis, Jo Ann – 1991
Consisting largely of 17 tables and 46 graphs, this document reports regional and subregional division characteristics of public elementary and secondary education (PESE) in 1988-89 in the United States; it also reports characteristics associated with the urbanicity, or most prevalent type of locale (TOL), and the relative wealth (RW) of states.…
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditures, Geographic Location
White, Sammis B.; Rue, Richard C. – 1989
An average of 33.5 percent of school district expenditures is spent on classroom teachers' compensation in Wisconsin elementary schools. The range varies from a low of 21.4 percent to a high of 45.9 percent. Financial data were analyzed from the survey responses of 110 of Wisconsin's 431 districts. The reasons for the average proportion spent on…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Finance, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Evans, John W. – 1989
In 1989, a study was conducted of faculty salaries at California's San Joaquin Delta Community College (SJDCC). Salary results were compared with community college districts in the State of California, with two specially selected subgroups of colleges comparable to SJDCC, and with all of California's major public and private four-year…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
National Education Goals Panel (ED), Washington, DC. – 1999
Noting that performance at the highest levels of achievement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is evidence that students have demonstrated competency over challenging subject matter and achieved the third National Educational Goal, this report presents the most up-to-date results in reading achievement for the states and…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Grade 4
Blank, Rolf K.; Manise, Jennifer Gifford; Brathwaite, Barbara C.; Langesen, Doreen – 1999
This report offers state profile information about teachers, students and their achievement, and standards for student learning. It includes special data about the education of children in poverty and the assistance they receive toward achieving state standards through Title I, the largest single federal education program. A particular feature of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Compensatory Education, Disabilities
PDF pending restorationMullis, Ina V. S.; And Others – 1993
Noting that the 1992 National Assessment of Educational Progress used a variety of innovative assessment approaches, this executive summary discusses a number of issues related to the new reading assessment framework. An introductory section of the executive summary discusses the new framework for reading assessment, the transition in reporting…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems
Anthony, Pat; Ratliffe, Sharon A. – 1994
In August 1993, a survey was conducted of staff development coordinators (SDC's) at California community colleges to gather data on their positions and characteristics. An analysis was made of the usable surveys returned by 54 colleges and, where appropriate, results were compared with findings from 1990, 1991, and 1992 surveys of SDC's. Study…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Administrators
Raisman, Neal A. – 1992
A study was conducted of the fall 1989 course offerings at Michigan's 29 community colleges in order to determine the de facto condition of general education within community colleges. Modeled after the basic approach taken by the Center for the Study of Community Colleges (Los Angeles, California), course offerings were divided into the following…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, College Programs, Community Colleges, Courses
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Research. – 1986
The Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills, Form U, measuring achievement in reading, spelling, language, mathematics, reference skills, science, and social studies, were administered to fourth-, fifth-, seventh-, ninth-, and eleventh-graders from all 92 South Carolina school districts, in Spring, 1986. Results were compared to national norms and to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Educational Trends
