The first in a series of reports by the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development, this report demonstrates the positive relationship between reduced class size and pupil achievement. The researchers collected about 80 studies that yielded over 700 comparisons of the achievement of smaller and larger classes. The results showed…

The purpose of this report by the staff of Management Implications of Team Teaching (MITT) was to explain the use of unit-level analysis to get a more exact characterization of the general innovative phenomena previously observed in unitized schools. The report examines three central variables that describe involvement of the teaching staff in the…

Project Advance is a cooperative program between Syracuse University and New York State school districts. Selected courses, developed and implemented in the university by cooperating academic departments and the Center for Instructional Development, are piloted on campus and then offered for both high school and university credit in participating…

Five hypotheses were tested in two longitudinal studies involving i/t/a used with primary-grade children in the Lompoc Unified School District of California. Parents were allowed to request i/t/a training, teachers were given instruction in i/t/a, and children received i/t/a training in first grade. Reading sections of the Stanford Achievement…

A Human Relations Training Program conducted with an experimental group of 150 educators from the Upper Cumberland Region in Tennessee is evaluated in this document. In an effort to assess the effects of the program, internal and external criteria, and matched control groups were utilized. The Personal Orientation Inventory, F Scale, Semantic…

The first half of this review of the recent literature on word attack skills describes 11 major reading systems currently in use and evaluates and compares them. The second half reviews reports of current word attack research under the headings of traditional phonic generalization research, current linguistic formulations, unit size, Gibson:…

The purpose of this dissertation is to estimate the relation between hours worked and sources and levels of income as well as other market and personal factors for selected groups of low-income family heads grouped into four categories conforming to expected welfare eligibility requirements. Multivariate least-squares regression techniques…

This document collects the appendices to the Pre-primary Education report of Study Project Europe 2000 of the European Cultural Foundation. This study collected data on the psychological, sociological, and educational aspects of pre-primary educational systems in England, France, Italy, Sweden, and the Federal Republic of Germany. (CS)

To provide a base of information for potential updating of the prevailing high school curricula in Recordkeeping/Bookkeeping, the components of those curricula were examined in relation to the actual job duties of employed bookkeepers--with special focus on entry-level positions and on the effects of computerization of job duties. The…

This section of a four-part research project investigating the syntax of Brazilian Portuguese presents data concerning tense usage in verb distribution. The data are derived from the analysis of selected literary samples from representative and contemporary writers. The selection of authors and tabulation of data are also described. Materials…

Mathematical techniques are developed for studying psychological problems in three fields: (1) psychological scaling, (2) learning and concept formation, and (3) mental measurement. Psychological scaling procedures are demonstrated to be useful in many areas, ranging from sensory discrimination of physical stimuli, such as colors, sounds, etc.,…

This document explores the problem of educational wastage in elementary and secondary schools of United Nations member countries. Educational wastage exists in the (1) failure of a system to provide universal education, (2) failure to recruit children into the system, (3) failure to hold children within the system, (4) failure of the system to set…

This statistical study attempted to determine the average age, mental rating, geographic distribution, present and prior commitments, and races of the initial group of 39 Newgate students at the Federal Youth Center, Ashland, Kentucky. The results indicated that (1) the average age was 18 plus; (2) the highest grade completed upon entering the…

Medical schools in the United States are described in terms of their finances, clinical facilities, students, faculties, and curricula, and the distribution of the schools according to these variables. The report is based on data drawn from the Institutional Profile System maintained by the Association of American Medical Colleges. The current…

In the spring of 1976, 1,183 community services students were surveyed to obtain data to furnish a demographic description of the students, to serve as a basis for formulating future community services courses, and to serve as a basis for comparing yearly successes or failures of courses. Of those surveyed, 723 responded. Results of the survey…