Located at the southeastern corner of the state and bordered by Arizona and Mexico, Imperial County makes up Region 6 of the California Migrant Education Program. Using the Migrant Student Record Transfer System as a data base, a study examined the 1977 flow patterns of migrant students from, to and within the state and each region. This region…

Riverside and San Bernardino Counties constitute Region 7 of the California Migrant Education Program. Using data from the Migrant Student Record Transfer System, a study was conducted to examine movement patterns of migrant students in 1977. Intrastate (and intraregional) movement dominated the flow picture for the region, as well as for the…

Region 8 of the California Migrant Education Program, located in the central portion of the state, is composed of Kings and Tulare Counties. A study was conducted, using data from the Migrant Student Record Transfer System, to examine the flow patterns of migrant students to, from and within the state in 1977. It showed that intrastate movement…

Located in the southwestern corner of the state, Region 9 of the California Migrant Education Program is composed of Orange and San Diego Counties. With 684,469 elementary and secondary students in its schools, the region ranks first in overall enrollment when compared with the other eight regions. A study on the flow patterns of migrant students…

Principal quantitative findings on the health of Puerto Ricans in New York City are brought together in this monograph. The statistics provided refer to mortality, morbidity, services, manpower, and attitudes toward health services. In each of these areas, comparisons are made between Puerto Ricans and other racial/ethnic groups or the total…

This paper reports on the commitments to school of two groups of high school juniors and seniors: self-affiliated students who were responsible for the choice of the school they attended and compelled students who were forced by their parents to attend their school when they actively desired to attend another school. A sample of 19 compelled…

THE BEHAVIOR OF PRESCHOOL BLIND AND PRESCHOOL SIGHTED CHILDREN AND THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE BEHAVIOR OF MOTHERS AND CHILDREN WERE STUDIED. SUBJECTS WERE 10 BLIND AND 12 SIGHTED CHILDREN FROM THREE TO SIX YEARS OF AGE AND FROM NONIMMIGRANT, UNBROKEN CAUCASIAN FAMILIES OF AVERAGE SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS AND CHRISTIAN BACKGROUND. A SYSTEMATIC…

With the objective of describing the use of the nurse's office or sick room in a rural elementary school, data was gathered from administrative records relating to sick room utilization and absenteeism. Monthly variations in use of the sick room, utilization by grade level, consistency of usage, complaints presented, and absenteeism were the main…

In order to make a computerized prediction study of population parameters in a junior college modestly equipped with modern data processing machinery, this study was designed to (1) develop an original data processing technique for scholastic prediction, (2) derive and evaluate a set of variables for predicting the success of new students, (3)…

This survey of the field of Chinese language computational linguistics was prepared as a background study for the Chinese Linguistics Project at Princeton. Since the authors' main purpose was "critical reconnaissance," quantitative emphasis is on systems with which they are most familiar. The complexity of the Chinese writing system has presented…

This study attempts to discover relationships between teacher classroom behaviors and pupil achievement. Observers rated thirty-two fifth-level teachers on the Global Rating Scales (GRS) and the Teacher Practices Observation Record (TPOR). The data were analyzed using a linear model in which classroom mean posttest math score was the criterion and…

Administrators' perspectives on faculty bargaining are assessed, using data from a survey of administrators in the California State University and Colleges. The following are reported: (1) administrators' attitudes toward, and perceptions of, a variety of current conditions in their organizations; (2) their expectations as to the impact of…

During the 1973 and 1974 orientation programs, first-time, full-time University of Maryland Baltimore County freshmen were administered the Student Information Form (SIF) by the UMBC Counseling Center. The SIF is a survey instrument developed by the American Council on Education for the Cooperative Institutional Research Program. The SIF provides…

Northampton County Area Community College (Pennsylvania) studied changes in student writing ability using a research paradigm described in the ERIC Clearinghouse for Junior Colleges' fifth topical paper (ED 030 422). Students in seven English classes were randomly assigned to write on one of two topics at the beginning of the semester, and asked…

This report is the fourth in a series of seven, all of which are concerned with coping styles of school children in the U.S.A., Brazil, Mexico, England, West Germany, Italy, and Yugoslavia. For this study, a lengthy structured interview was held with the mothers of 10 percent of the 6,400 children who had been tested in Stage I of the…