Data were collected from the American Council on Education's Cooperative Research Program Student Information Form, which, since 1966, has been gathering longitudinal information on students at a national sample of colleges and universities. The University of Maryland Baltimore County participated in this program for the first time in 1973. This…

The 1975 Entering Freshmen Drug Survey was administered during alternate weeks at Summer Orientation to obtain a representative sample. A false drug (derbisol) was included in the questionnaire as a validity check. A total of 848 students (28 percent of the freshman class) was surveyed. The data indicated a stabilization of drug usage for most…

The psychophysical technique of magnitude estimation was used to develop a ratio scale of subjective estimations of adult learning in various adult education activities. A rank order of 26 learning activities and the magnitude estimations in "units of learning" that are expected to occur in each activity were obtained from 146 adult education…

Nationwide surveys of the status of the Doctor of Arts degree were made in March, 1970; November, 1971; November, 1972; January, 1974; and January, 1975. In order to update these five previous studies, questionnaires were sent to the graduate deans of the 341 member institutions of the Council of Graduate Schools in the U. S. during the last week…

Presented in three languages (English, French, and Spanish), the document deals only with the demographic aspects of the world labor force--fully employed, underemployed, and unemployed. It includes employers, salaried employees, self-employed, wage earners, unpaid family workers, members of producer cooperatives, and members of the armed forces.…

A statistical report on public broadcasting describes the status of the industry for 1973. Six major subject areas are covered: development of public broadcasting, finance, employment, broadcast and production, national interconnection services, and audiences of public broadcasting. Appendixes include supplementary tables showing facilities,…

A user study to determine the ratio of citation-bound queries to data-bound queries originated by university faculty and processed through reference department personnel or by independent use of reference materials in the university library revealed a majority (75%) of the queries are citation-bound. Important implications are suggested for the…

This study presents an intensive comparative analysis of selected basic sentence patterns and transformations in Spanish and English manifested in the responses of Spanish-speaking disadvantaged children selected to receive instruction in the following groups: (1) Oral-Aural Spanish with special science materials in Spanish; (2) Oral-Aural English…

This study reports the impact of the Flint Community Junior College (Michigan) reading improvement program on 150 participating students in terms of general group and racial sub-group (black and white) performance. After the groups were compared according to race and ability for data-collecting purposes, pre- and post-test measurements were taken…

From some simple and schematic assumptions about information processing, a stochastic differential equation is derived for the motion of a student through a computer-assisted elementary mathematics curriculum. The mathematics strands curriculum of the Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences is used to test: (1) the theory and (2)…

This study is one part of an Elementary School Evaluation Kit, and it deals with the initial step of needs assessment -- that of helping the elementary principal determine which educational goals should be examined at this school. The report investigates the priority ratings of educational goals by parents and teachers of an urban community. More…

In addition to the development of the measurement instrument, this study also attempted to analyze the differences in scale scores within and across the three participating groups--teachers, principals, and parents--and among the participating schools; and to investigate the degree of relationship existing between the priorities assigned to the…

The purpose of this study was to determine the validity of the American College Test (ACT) in predicting academic achievement of students from an area which is culturally, economically, and educationally depressed. The population, chosen from 6 community colleges serving the Appalachian region of Kentucky, consisted of 1,127 full time (12 or more…

Supervision and improvement of instruction are central concerns for educators, causing school districts to expand and specialize their supervisory services. This document addresses the responsibility and vulnerability of the supervisory position. It points up the confusion surrounding the supervisor of instruction role as perceived by professional…

This case study examines the economic and institutional impact of cooperative vocational education on the employment, earnings and educational performance of the 1966 and 1970 graduation cohorts of Patterson High School, Dayton, Ohio. The performance of these groups is contrasted with that of students in the comprehensive high schools for the same…