The analysis of questionnaire data involves a sequence of planned activities beginning with questionnaire development and concluding with a report of the results of the study. Most questionnaires require the use of numerical codes to facilitate computer processing of results and to select appropriate statistical procedures for summarizing the…

This study examines the relationship between high-stakes school accountability and its effects upon student test scores and school policies. The authors seek to understand the extent to which accountability sanctions and incentives for the poorest-performing schools in Florida explain subsequent changes in school practices and policies as well as…

This paper looks at bugs and errors in the following commonly used statistical packages: SAS, Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), Biomedical Data Plan (BMDP), and Minitab. A section on using the Internet to keep up to date on these packages covers subscribing to statistical software lists, searching statistical software lists,…

Socioeconomic data are presented for the Black population from the 1980 census for the United States as a whole, for regions, divisions, states, selected counties, and places. Data are shown for counties and places with 50,000 or more Blacks, places of 1,000 or more total population with a Black population of 50 percent or more, and all counties…

The relationship of policy and decision making to statistical data and analyses is discussed. The optimal relationship, in which statistics play a key role in funding allocation and other policy decisions, rarely holds. Most surveys by statistical agencies are on a large scale, with a broad focus, resulting in databases which are difficult to…

This article was based on a research study funded by the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health.

This comparative study of primary school finance is based on ten studies of the arrangements for financing primary education in Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Yugoslavia. Chapter 1 describes the variety of approaches that individual countries…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the duties and responsibilities assigned to assistant principals in select Minnesota secondary schools. The objectives were to determine (1) the degree of responsibility delegated to the assistant principal for each duty assigned, (2) the level of authority involved in the completion of the delegated…

This survey includes tabulations of median and beginning professional salaries for the year for budgeted positions in all Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries and supplementary tables listing average salaries for filled positions in ARL's academic libraries, displayed by position, sex, minority group membership, and geographic…

This study was conducted to analyze and summarize raw data obtained from a 1972 study: "Report on a Cost Study of Specific Technical Processing Activities of the California State University and College Libraries" with the hypothesis that the cost of technical processes increases as the production volume both rises above and falls below…

The major purpose of this evaluation report is to scrutinize the Skyline Wide Educational Plan (SWEP) research methods and analytical schemes and to communicate the project's constituency priorities relative to the educational programs and processes of the future. A Delphi technique was used as the primary mechanism for gathering and scrutinizing…

This eight city pilot survey tested the feasibility of conducting a nationwide mail survey of training in business and industry, including feasibility of the project for specific industry groups. Other objectives were to specify subject areas on which data might or might not be available; suggest a single questionnaire or series of questionnaires;…

This monograph contains the third section, operations at the factor level, of a report of studies done in Helsinki, Finland, describing school achievement in terms of ability, trait, situational, and background variables. The report (1) investigates the structure of school achievement, (2) describes school achievement in terms of selected…

A summary is presented of findings concerning occupational mobility based on data obtained in a supplement to the January 1973 Current Population Survey, conducted by the Bureau of the Census. Statistical data is offered in three tables, comparing occupational mobility between January 1972 and January 1973 of employed persons over 18: (1) by age…

This book is designated for an audience of the practitioners of education, especially those located in elementary schools. It is designed to investigate and explain research methods, terms, and concepts so that the reader can narrow down the many ways things are known or said to be known. Included in this book are chapters on the research process…