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Download full textNational Science Foundation, 2008
This report contains analyses of key aspects of the scope, quality, and vitality of the Nation's science and engineering enterprise and global science and technology. The report presents information on science, mathematics, and engineering education at all levels; the scientific and engineering workforce; U.S. and international and development…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Research and Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Engineering
Illinois Univ., Champaign. Graduate School of Library Science. – 1990
This report presents statistical pictures of Illinois Public Libraries during the fiscal year 1988-1989. The information comes primarily from the Illinois Public Library Annual Report forms. In addition, text has been included that describes how a library or library system can utilize these statistics. Three sections divide the publication.…
Descriptors: Budgets, Financial Policy, Library Materials, Library Networks
Feldt, Leonard S. – 1983
This paper considers, from a theoretical point of view, two measurement approaches used in measuring success and failure in skills tests in physical education. The first, "fixed length" (FL) testing, entails counting the number of successful performances in a fixed number of trials. The second, "trials-to-criterion" (TTC)…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Mathematical Formulas, Mathematical Models, Measurement Techniques
Tourangeau, Roger; And Others – 1987
This manual was produced to familiarize data users with the procedures followed in data collection and processing of the fifth follow-up survey of the National Longitudinal Survey of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS-72) and to provide documentation for use of the file. The data file is a computerized data base, which is available on magnetic…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Databases, Followup Studies, High School Students
Sedivy, Robert R. – 1977
A third annual study, involving 107 higher education institutions (39 public, 68 private) was conducted to determine rate and occupancy trends in housing operations of the Middle Atlantic Region. Each responding institution was asked to state its basic nine-month double-room rate or to compute an average rate if they have more than one. It is…
Descriptors: College Housing, Comparative Analysis, Dormitories, Food
Vincent, Phillip E.; Adams, E. Kathleen – 1978
This study examines various factors that influence school district spending and spending from locally raised taxes in Colorado and Minnesota. The factors include the levels of state and federal aid; the nature of the state general aid formula; local fiscal characteristics including the average market value of residential housing, the percent of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid, Finance Reform
National Center for Health Statistics (DHEW/PHS), Hyattsville, MD. – 1980
The booklet presents a report on the operation and use of person numbering (PN) systems for vital and health statistics in Israel and Scandinavia. A PN system involves assigning a different number to each individual within a given society and using that number for commercial, governmental, and military identification. The purpose of the report is…
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Government Role, Health Services
CHASTAIN, KENNETH – 1967
GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF INFERENTIAL STATISTICAL METHODS AND EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN WOULD ENABLE LANGUAGE TEACHERS TO INTERPRET OBJECTIVELY AVAILABLE RESEARCH REPORTS AND HOPEFULLY WOULD ENCOURAGE MORE EXPERIMENTATION. TO UNDERSTAND THE EXPERIMENTAL PROCESS, EDUCATORS MUST REALIZE THAT ANY EXPERIMENT IS AS SUCCESSFUL AS THE EXPERIMENTER IS IN…
Descriptors: Discriminant Analysis, Educational Researchers, Experiments, Hypothesis Testing
Mosbaek, E.J.; And Others – 1968
Detailed case studies of each of the 5 school district participating in an evaluation of compensatory education (CE) programs under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 are contained in this volume. Technical features and the methodology used in the 1965-66 and 1966-67 school year programs are described. The description…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Blacks, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Boston. Bureau of Library Extension. – 1977
Based upon annual reporting data for FY 76, this statistical report was designed to facilitate rapid comparison of support and activity levels among Massachusetts public libraries. The first section presents summary tables providing means, medians, and percentile values by population group for each of the following indicators: (1) library…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Demography, Library Collections, Library Expenditures
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Boston. Bureau of Library Extension. – 1977
This supplemental report has been developed to assist administrators in the comparative analysis and evaluation of Massachusetts public libraries. Libraries have been placed into one of seven budget groups according to their total operating expenditures to provide another method of comparing libraries by "like" size and population of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Demography, Library Collections, Library Expenditures
Blackburn, Richard – 1974
Beginning as a pilot study in the spring of 1973, this analysis developed into a full study whose purpose was to determine how much of a financial subsidy the institutions of higher education do provide to the professional touring performing arts. The magnitude of expenditures as well as a measure of subsidies provided by sponsoring institutions…
Descriptors: Cultural Enrichment, Dance, Financial Support, Fine Arts
ACTION, Washington, DC. – 1975
The study presents statistics in verbal, graphic, and tabular form based on three different population sets: the population as a whole, the volunteer population during the year ending in April 1974, and the volunteer population during the week of April 7-13, 1974. The most typical volunteer was a married white woman between ages 25 and 44 who held…
Descriptors: Activities, Individual Characteristics, Motivation, National Surveys
Jallade, Jean-Pierre; And Others – 1971
The volume is the second of two and presents additional statistical analyses of data discussed in the first, which presented 1960 and 1961 census data from 53 countries in an attempt to identify and quantify factors which determined the occupational and educational structure of the labor force. The second volume consists of eight chapters: (1) a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Census Figures, Educational Background, Foreign Countries
Mayeske, George W.; And Others – 1972
Utilizing a data base obtained from a survey commissioned by Congress in 1964 and carried out in 1965, this study attempted to discover what characteristics of the nation's schools are most closely related to school outcomes. Methods were devised by which school influence could be distinguished from social background influences. A five percent…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Schools, Family Environment, Low Achievement
