The Common Core of Data (CCD) nonfiscal surveys consist of data submitted annually to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) by state education agencies (SEAs) in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the four U.S. Island Areas (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin…

The State Higher Education Finance (SHEF) report is produced annually by the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) to broaden understanding of the context and consequences of multiple decisions made every year in each of these areas. No single report can provide definitive answers to such broad and fundamental questions of public…

The purpose of this study was to compare the relative classificatory ability of the Linear Discriminant Function (LDF) and the Bayesian Taxonomic Procedure (BTP) when these techniques are applied to multivariate normal and nonnormal data with differing degrees of overlap in the distributions of the predictor variables. (Editor)

A sample of child guidance clinic patients who received an adult diagnosis of schizophrenia were followed through record sources into middle adulthood. The determination of within-sample differences in long-term adult outcome provided predictive criteria. (Editor)

Using step-wise multiple regression analyses, regression equations were generated for sixty school age subjects with choice and stage of moral reasoning on moral dilemmas as the dependent variables. The implications of the findings for further research and curriculum were discussed. (Editor/RK)

Presents an attempt to identify the main dimensions of an educational system. These dimensions in turn allow the identification of those variables which are most useful in describing and differentiating between systems for purposes of research, planning, etc. (Author/RK)

Describes and organizes the variables affecting display presentation format (i.e., tables and graphs) in information systems into a classification scheme and creates a framework for research in this area. Two-factor studies are discussed; research recommendations are presented; and Cognitive Match Interface Design is explained. (Contains 31…

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the contribution of factors such as: (1) high school science background; (2) interest in geology; (3) teacher characteristics; and (4) geology course background to performance on a measure of geology achievement. (Author)

The Automatic Interaction Detector (AID 3) is used in a search for interaction effects between absence from school and location from school, school size, location of home, age, sex, position in family and socio-economic status among a national sample of Irish primary school children. (Editor)

There has been little empirical research on the psychological and sociological impact of transfer policies on managers and their families or on the attitudes of employees and their spouses toward corporate transfer policies. Develops and tests a number of hypotheses concerning the prediction of managerial satisfaction with recent transfers.…

In this paper, we explore the rules that determine intuitive predictions and judgments of confidence and contrast these rules to the normative principles of statistical prediction. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to determine characteristics of the disadvantaged client and of the Concentrated Employment Program (CEP) which related to the successful vocational training and placement of 150 unemployed public assistance recipients who were served by the San Antonio Concentrated Employment Program. (Editor)

Examines the influence of one teacher personality variable, dogmatism, and one organizational variable, tenure status, on the resistance of teachers toward innovation. (Author/RK)

Tests of reading and mathematical understanding were administered to 210 children from three socio-economic backgrounds who had been tested 12 months earlier during their first year at school (AA 525 131). (Editor/RK)