To develop normative data for the revision of the Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale, the scale was administered to 4,972 children, ages 6 to 19 years, representing all geographic regions of the United States. Reliability was satisfactory for all groups except Black females below age 12 years. (Author/BW)

Between November 2004, and March 2005, the Center for Civic Education conducted a survey of alumni from the We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution program. Altogether, 522 alumni responded, ranging in age from 18-34. The primary focus of the study was on voting and other forms of political engagement. Due to self-selection by respondents,…

This report summarizes the highlights of a national survey of college and university faculty that was conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) in fall and winter of 2001-2001. This is the fifth in a series of surveys conducted on a triennial basis. Results are based on the responses of 32,840 full-time college and university…

Article also appeared in "International Journal of the Sociology of Language," n1; research supported by the Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Ford Foundation, and The Language Behavior Secion, Hebrew University. (DD)

Paper presented at the 7th International Congress of Slavists, Warsaw, Poland, August 1973. (RL)

Describes a new 4-part grading program being used by a Pennsylvania school district, which provides parents with valuable information about their chilren's school progress. (Author)

In 1993, the College and University Personnel Association (CUPA) published the results of their "1992-93 Administrative Compensation Survey," which contains salary figures for 136 administrative positions. A match of CUPA titles with those used by the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) revealed that 26 of the positions on…

The American College Testing Program (ACT) and the Admission Testing Program of the College Entrance Examination Board are programs in which a large number of Albuquerque Public School (APS) students voluntarily participate. A summary of test data for participating APS students is provided here. For the 1981-82 school year, the scores of APS…

This study of public parks and recreation agencies throughout the United States was undertaken to develop a mathematical pricing formula sensitive to local spending abilities in order to determine if a per capita pricing structure would be possible. Four hundred and seventy public parks and recreation agencies responded to a survey of fees and…

This report presents final data on public high school graduates for the 1985-86 school year. It includes tabulations for public schools on the number of graduates, 12th-grade student membership, and 9th-grade student membership in the year the graduates were 9th-grade students. Data in this report were due from State education agencies to the…

Indicators of national scientific activity were derived from counts of 500,000 publications and millions of citations in large scientific journals in 7 major disciplines, six major countries, and a time span from 1965 to 1972. (Author/PF)

THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING TRADE-COMPETENCY EXAMINATIONS ON A NATIONAL BASIS WAS INVESTIGATED, AND THE POTENTIAL UTILITY OF CURRENTLY DEVELOPED INSTRUMENTS WAS ASSESSED. TWO 1-DAY SEMINARS WERE HELD, AND, AT THE FIRST SEMINAR, FOUR INFORMAL PRESENTATIONS WERE MADE FOLLOWED BY SMALL GROUP DISCUSSIONS. AT THE SECOND SEMINAR, FOUR PAPERS WERE READ…

THIS PAPER PRESENTS SEVERAL THEORETICAL PROPOSITIONS ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY WITHIN A NATION AND WITHIN ITS SUBPARTS OR REGIONS. THE PROPOSITIONS DESCRIBED ARE EQUALLY VALID FOR THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ANY AREAL UNIT AND ITS COMPONENT PARTS AND MAY THUS BE APPLIED TO A CITY AND ITS DISTRICTS OR TO A PROVINCE AND ITS…

This report presents national normative data on characteristics of students entering college as first-time freshmen during the summer and fall of 1970. It is the 5th in a series of annual reports and part of an ongoing longitudinal research program conducted by the Office of Research of the American Council on Education. The data are reported…

This report is part of the National Assessment on what children know and can do in science. The results are reported in terms of percentages of respondents who provide correct responses to specific exercises. Among the interesting results are the following: (1) Males performed better than females, increasingly through the four National Assessment…