High-ability entering college students give three main reasons for not choosing to become part of honors programs and colleges; they and/or their parents believe that honors classes at the university level require more work than non-honors courses, are more stressful, and will adversely affect their self-image and grade point average (GPA) (Hill;…

This paper reports the effects of game technology on student learning in mathematics as investigated in two data sets collected from slightly different subjects. In the first, 41 second graders (7 or 8 years old) from two classes used either a technology-based game or a paper-based game for 5 weeks. For the next 13 weeks, both classes used a…

The research discussed in this manuscript was supported by a capacity building grant funded by the U.S. Department of Education as a "Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to use Technology Grant (PT3)". The problem was to determine the effect on teacher candidates of a field experience in which candidates used technology to support the teaching of a…

To learn what effects Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) institutional job training courses had on income and employment, a nationwide representative sample of about 1,200 former trainees (784 completers and 413 dropouts) were interviewed early in 1966--over a year after their job training--to learn their opinions of the programs and…

The High Priority Location Stipend Program (HPLSP) provides monetary incentives to staff assigned to work at school sites designated as high priority locations. HPLSP was first implemented in the Dade County Public Schools, Florida, during the 1982-83 school year. The purposes of this study were to determine the impact of HPLSP on: (1) staff…

Utilizing a pre/post test design, the progress of first year Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) students (experimental group) toward projected EBCE student outcomes was compared with that of non-EBCE students (control group) at three school sites which employ the EBCE model developed by Far West Laboratory (FWL). Also, the program…