The vocabulary performance of 198 university students in reading general business news publications was deficient in 17 of 20 cases compared to a national study. Suggestions were made for challenging students to enhance vocabulary skills. (JOW)

The National Community College Benchmark Project (NCCBP) provides community colleges with a system to report data on key learning outcomes and indicators of institutional effectiveness and to compare their data with national norms and data from selected peer institutions. This chapter describes the development, current features, and anticipated…

Objective: The number of youth in residential care programs who have been abused is high. The relationship between childhood abuse victimization and adult intimate partner violence (IPV) is well documented. This study compared the rates of IPV 16 years after individuals had participated in a long-term residential care program with individuals…

Market data in 34 different markets around the country provided the background for a comparison of newspaper subscribers and nonsubscribers. Essentially the market reports provided information on what kinds of people subscribe to a newspaper and why. Among the findings are the following: (1) subscribers tend to be older, to have higher incomes,…

THIS REPORT PRESENTS NATIONAL NORMATIVE DATA ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ENTERING COLLEGE FRESHMEN OF 1966 AND COMPARATIVE DATA ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF STUDENTS ENTERING DIFFERENT TYPES OF INSTITUTIONS. THE METHOD USED FOR SELECTING THE SAMPLE OF 251 INSTITUTIONS IS BRIEFLY SUMMARIZED. A STUDENT INFORMATION FORM WAS GIVEN TO 254,480…

THE DATA PRESENTED IN THIS REPORT WERE COMPILED IN CONJUNCTION WITH A PROGRAM OF LONGITUDINAL RESEARCH INITIATED BY THE OFFICE OF RESEARCH OF THE AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION (ACE). THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROGRAM, INCLUDING THE SAMPLING TECHNIQUE AND OTHER TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS WERE PRESENTED IN AN EARLIER REPORT (ACE RESEARCH REPORT, VOLUME 2,…

Age and sex distributions of weight by single inches of height for adults 18-74 years of age in the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States are given for the period 1971-1974. Discussion is made concerning the comparison of the results of this survey with those of previous surveys. (LH)

The necessity for relevance in making and using norms is discussed. Two major points are made (1) norms should yield meaning in terms of the particular purpose for which the testing is done; and (2) legitimate and illegitimate general norms abound in test manuals. These principles are presented as practical guides: (1) avoid unjustified general…

Based on a paper presented at the 1977 Western Social Science Association Meeting in Denver, Colorado, the article reports on a study that compared major demographic features of a sample of 70 legally blind adults with the sighted adult sample studied in the 1975 National Opinion Research Center General Social Survey. (Author/DLS)

After reviewing attempts to create national school finance equity assessments, the authors propose a model of equity assessment that can be used as a national standard in judging the relative equity of state school finance models. (Author/IRT)

The authors criticize an article by John Carrol in the February 1987 "Phi Delta Kappan" in which he discussed the Reading Proficiency Scale issued by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. They feel the Reading Proficiency Scale has limited usefulness. Includes 21 references. (Author/MD)

A compendium of advice from test experts and schoolmen who are actually involved in releasing test scores. (Author)

Some results from the first year of the national assessment of educational progress project. (RA) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Results (Interpretation).

While major test publishers randomly select school districts for their national norming studies, a survey of "accepting" and "declining" districts supports the hypothesis that self-selection bias results in overrepresentation of districts which already use a specific publisher's tests or instructional materials. (Author/BW)