As the availability of high-throughput data-collection technologies, such as information-sensing mobile devices, remote sensing, internet log records, and wireless sensor networks has grown, science, engineering, and business have rapidly transitioned from striving to develop information from scant data to a situation in which the challenge is now…

In this article, the authors summarize their 15 years of research on graduate education in economics in the United States. They examine all stages of the process, from the undergraduate origins of eventual economics PhDs to their attrition and time-to-degree outcomes. For PhD completers, the authors examine job market outcomes, research…

The need for hands-on computer laboratory experience in undergraduate and graduate statistics education has been firmly established in the past decade. As a result a number of attempts have been undertaken to develop novel approaches for problem-driven statistical thinking, data analysis and result interpretation. In this paper we describe an…

The appropriate analysis of students' responses to an assessment is an essential step in improving the quality of the assessment itself as well as staff teaching and student learning. Many academics are unfamiliar with the formal processes used to analyze assessment results; the standard statistical methods associated with analyzing the validity…

This booklet contains a list of institutions of higher learning in the United States and Canada which teach Italian. Italian is taught, according to the booklet, in 383 colleges and universities in the United States (including 28 community or junior colleges), and in 15 colleges and universities in Canada. Other information includes the number of…

An update, as of 1977, of four National Center for Education Statistics reports concerned with changing patterns in degree awards to women is presented. Separate chapters are devoted to bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and first-professional degrees. Each chapter consists of an overview, an examination by field of study of the percentage…

The American College Testing Program (ACT) reports on a survey of 1,717 institutions in the U.S., Puerto Rico, and related territories. The institutions covered in this study include responding four-year and upper-division colleges, universities, and other baccalaureate degree-granting schools; graduate, professional, and theological schools; and…

Contents include statistical data in tabular form, with some narration, on: a two-year comparison of median undergraduate charges; a regional comparison of median undergraduate tuition and fees for 1978-79; a two-year comparison of median tuition and fees for graduate and first professional students; the median of the difference of tuition and…

Research co-sponsored by the Conference of Deans of Southern Graduate Schools and the Southern Regional Education Board on the duration of doctoral study is reported in this book. Over 1,900 recipients of a doctoral degree (representing over l20 graduate departments) cooperated along with the graduate deans and selected faculty representatives.…

Up-to-date information as of January 1979 is presented on Canadian and U.S. undergraduate and graduate programs in health services administration. The first section presents an introduction to career opportunities in the profession, comments on the nature of education in health services administration, and offers suggestions on how to identify the…

Statistical data are presented on tuitions and required fees at New Jersey colleges and universities for academic year 1978-79. Full-time undergraduate tuitions and required fees are provided for two-year, four-year public, and four-year independent colleges, and full-time graduate tuitions and required fees are provided for public, independent,…

The ninth annual survey by the Office of Communications Services of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC) shows total enrollment at state and land-grant universities dipped from 3,362,846 in 1977 (391 campuses reporting) to 3,231,948 in 1978 (354 campuses reporting), a drop of 4 percent. The Office of…

Summary statistics on Canadian universities and colleges are presented in this bulletin. Tables 1 through 4 provide information on enrollment in credit programs. The number of full-time teaching staff by field, median age, and geographic region is given in Table 5. Bachelor and first-professional degrees awarded by program of study and region are…

Degrees and formal awards conferred by Kentucky institutions of higher education during the 1977-1978 fiscal year are listed in this summary. A total of 20,944 degrees and awards were conferred by independent and state-supported Kentucky colleges and universities. State-supported institutions conferred 17,708 degrees and formal awards including:…

The 59th in a series of reports on national collegiate enrollments, this report includes statistics, interpretations, and trends in enrollment in four-year and related institutions for 1978-79. The institutions surveyed included four-year and upper division colleges, universities, and other baccalaureate degree-granting schools, graduate,…