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Bracken, Marilyn C. – 1976
In an effort to help make products safer and to reduce product-related injuries, the Consumer Product Safety Commission relies heavily on consumer participation. To establish regulations, it utilizes the following: (1) an "Offeror" regulation whereby groups can offer to manage the safety standards development process; (2) a consumer…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Consumer Protection, Data Collection, Federal Programs
Deslonde, James L. – 1981
Studies of the use of ethnography as an evaluation tool in large-scale contract research studies were reviewed before data collection and design decisions were finalized in response to a Request for Proposal (RFP). Five tasks had to be accomplished before data collection could begin: study sites were selected, a system for data collection was…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Policy
Bradburn, Norman M. – 1982
Federal statistics form the foundation and are the standard for private statistics. Reliable and accurate statistics are increasingly used in complex models of the economy and society that have become important tools for management of large business concerns and for policy planning in governmental bodies. Reductions in government funding threaten…
Descriptors: Administration, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Federal Programs

Plato, Kathleen C. – 1985
The evaluation of federal programs such as the migrant education program causes a dilemma for state education agencies. The law places the prime responsibility for establishing, and accounting for, quality programs on state and local education agencies. However, no explicit directive requires that this be done in a uniform manner. A lack of…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Data Collection, Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Eash, Maurice J. – 1992
Design and implementation of a curriculum evaluation plan for the vocational education program (occupational education under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act) of a large correctional system are described. An outside evaluator assisted in designing and conducting the first year's evaluation. The 1991-92 curriculum used was…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Correctional Rehabilitation, Curriculum Evaluation, Data Collection
McLaughlin, Margaret J.; Owings, Maria F. – 1989
Preliminary findings of this research effort provide support for the hypothesis that existing databases maintained by federal agencies for administrative or monitoring purposes can serve as useful data sources in special education policy research. The research explored the relationships among a number of state-level special education, fiscal, and…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Databases, Disabilities, Educational Legislation
Katzenmeyer, Conrad G. – 1986
With the growing interest in comparing student achievement state by state, there is a need to develop better techniques for making such comparisons. Approaches available now, particularly the use of Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and American College Test (ACT) scores, have obvious shortcomings but nonetheless continue to be prominent because…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Testing
Steketee, Drew – 1979
The Consumer Information Center is a federal program which encourages federal agencies to develop and release consumer information to the public. It also promotes consumer awareness and access to information through the "Consumer Information Catalog" and a mail order distribution operation. Through research, the Center can learn the…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Demography
Davis, J. A.; Collins, Elmer – 1975
The National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS) is a federally supported longitudinal study of a national sample of some 23,000 young people first surveyed as high school seniors in the spring of 1972. The historical precedents of such a study include the work of Friend and Haggert in a Boston settlement house, Louis…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Data Collection, Databases, Federal Programs
Richart, Victoria B. – 1983
A management information system model was designed to provide data for planning, directing, and evaluating programs for the National Origin Minority Education (NOME) office of the New Hampshire Department of Education. NOME is federally funded to provide training to local school district and community members regarding the educational needs of…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Databases, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education

Senese, Donald J. – 1984
The advent of the Information Age brings the means and tools to improve education through the use of technology. In order to assist educators in kindergarten through grade 12 and in higher education with the development of technological programs, the federal government has made the implementation of technology a primary initiative. There will be a…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Demonstration Programs, Educational Improvement, Educational Research
Andrew, Loyd D.; And Others – 1981
Results of the National Center for Education Statistics' (NCES) evaluation of its collection of data for the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) are examined. Concerns regarding accuracy, timeliness, and uses of HEGIS data collection are addressed. To review the literature of higher education and publications concerned with some…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Data Collection, Databases, Educational Research
Anderson, Janice K. – 1977
Passage of the Education Amendments of 1974 added a new section to Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, which required the U.S. Commissioner of Education to undertake specific activities regarding evaluation of the program. Efforts made by the Office of Education to implement this law are described, including the…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Compensatory Education, Data Collection, Disadvantaged Youth
Smith, Barbara E. – 1991
Establishment of the federal-state Employment Service system created a need for a standardized occupational language to ensure uniform matching of workers with jobs. The Occupational Analysis Research Program was initiated to gather a broad base of detailed occupational information. Although the organizational structure of all editions of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Data Collection, Employment Opportunities
Louis, Karen Seashore – 1981
The movement toward integration of qualitative and quantitative research methods within the same study has been most evident in social policy research. Four major approaches to integrating can be identified in recent studies. The sequential, the parallel, and the fused models have been rather widely used. The interactive model, developed during…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Databases
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