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Rubin, Louis, Ed. – 1978
The essays in this book emphasize trends now shaping society that the authors believe will have a profound effect on schools in the decades to come. Topics covered include declining enrollments and increasing educational costs, the changing role of vocational education, government financing for educational quality, the role of busing, politicking…
Descriptors: Administration, Books, Bus Transportation, Community Schools
Jensen, Arthur R. – 1979
The uses of data on siblings for educational and psychological research purposes are explained. Examples are based on empirical data. Five types of research problems, using sibling data, are explored: (1) statistical control of family background variance in psychological or educational studies which use analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) or multiple…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Covariance, Cognitive Measurement, Correlation
BECK, SAMUEL J.; MOLISH, HERMAN B. – 1967
REVISED AND REWRITTEN FROM THE 1945 EDITION, THE TEXT DESCRIBES AND ANALYZES THE RORSCHACH TEST. PART 1 OF THE VOLUME WAS WRITTEN BY SAMUEL J. BECK AND PRESENTS A VARIETY OF PERSONALITY PICTURES DRAWN FROM RORSCHACH PROTOCOLS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION. EXCERPTS FROM 29 CASE STUDIES ARE INCLUDED ON FIVE DIMENSIONS--THE INTELLIGENCE CURVE, YOUNG…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Case Records, Emotional Adjustment, Emotional Disturbances
Sparks, Doug – 1977
This study discusses the contention that since vocational education costs more per pupil on the average than academic or general education, it should yield greater benefits to its students. Focus is on examining pitfalls inherent in this approach/contention and synthesizing recent research materials which reflect the benefits of vocational…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Employer Attitudes, Employment Opportunities
Samuda, Ronald J. – 1975
Not intended to be a technical piece of work in the sense of psychometric innovation, this volume presents a synthesis and summary of over four hundred highly selected reference sources. The objective is to present a gestalt of the perspectives, pitfalls, fallacies, issues, consequences, and trends in the use of standardized norm-referenced tests…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Policy, Environmental Influences, Ethnic Groups
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Direct linkObiakor, Festus E., Ed.; Utley, Cheryl A., Ed. – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2002
This issue of "Multiple Voices" contains the following articles: (1) "A Self-Study of Diversity: Preservice Teachers' Beliefs Revealed through Classroom Practices" (Donna M. Sobel and others), which presents the results of seven preservice teachers' self-study that reveals ways in which the teachers' beliefs regarding diversity issues were…
Descriptors: American Indians, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Bilingual Education, Blacks
Gosen, Jerry; Washbush, John – Simulation & Gaming, 2004
This article focuses on the research and scholarship dealing with the assessment of the experiential approach in both its computer-based and human-based forms. It covers two forms of assessment. First it covers explicit attempts to assess the validity of experiential learning, and second it focuses on measuring the effectiveness of the…
Descriptors: Research Design, Validity, Experiential Learning, Program Effectiveness
Download full textComptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1985
This report discusses ways to determine why female Federal employees earn less than male Federal employees. Two general approaches are discussed: economic analysis and job content. Economic analysis attempts to measure and explain existing wage differentials between men and women using characteristics of individuals, occupations, and the…
Descriptors: Adults, Civil Rights Legislation, Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation
Lynn, Laurence E., Jr., Ed. – 1978
Offered in response to a request by the National Science Foundation for information on how knowledge affects policy, the document investigates federal support of social research and development and evaluates the relevance of this research to social policy. Social research and development (R & D) concerns the identification and solution of…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Courts, Data Analysis, Developmental Programs
Salley, Charles D., Ed.; And Others – 1979
Proceedings of the 1979 conference of the Southern Association for Institutional Research (SAIR) are presented. The conference theme was the future of institutional research. Contents include reports of preconference workshops, speeches, panel reports, abstracts of papers, and reports pertaining to the affairs of the SAIR. Documents and authors…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Education, Collective Bargaining, College Administration
Huber, Jake, Ed.; And Others – 1976
Sponsored by 10 State departments of education (Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming), the Project participants met in San Antonio, Texas, on November 17-19, 1976 to discuss bilingual/multicultural education. Since Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas have had significant experience in this field and…
Descriptors: Agency Role, American Indians, Bilingual Education, Court Litigation
Horst, Donald P.; Tallmadge, G. Kasten – 1976
The orientation of this report is that of identifying educational projects which can be considered clearly exemplary. The largest section consists of a 22-step procedure for validating the effectiveness of educational projects using existing evaluation data. It is not intended as a guide for conducting evaluations but rather for interpreting data…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Control Groups
McBeath, Clare; Nicholson, Lindsay – 2001
The research methods selected for an evaluation of courses in vocational education and training (VET) teacher education at Curtin University (Western Australia) were examined. The university hired an outside research body from a different TAFE college to conduct the evaluation because Curtin University's courses in postschool teacher education,…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Delivery Systems, Developed Nations
Peer reviewedFoster, Peter – British Educational Research Journal, 1990
Evaluates two British ethnographic studies by Bruce Carrington and Edward Wood, and by Cecile Y. Wright claiming to find evidence of teachers' racist attitudes and behaviors toward Afro-Caribbean students that contributed to student underachievement. Delineates methodological flaws. Argues that Wright's findings that the source of racism is in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Athletics, Black Students, Case Studies
1987
The following papers are included in this proceedings of a conference on agricultural education: "Misuse of Statistics" (Miller); "Significance of Doctoral Research in Agricultural Education" (Moore, Bailey, Burnett); "Identification of Science-Related Competencies Taught in Vocational Agriculture Programs in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering, Career Choice
