The purpose of this study was to determine the degree of relationship between the effectiveness of the Instruction and Research Unit in the areas of instructional program (reading and mathematics), organizational operations (procedural and substantive), school-community relations, and staff development to several measures of student affective…

The measurement of change in quasi-experimental educational research was discussed. Problems related to measuring change exist to varying degrees in all research designs; these issues are less troublesome in experimental studies because the investigator can manipulate the interest variables and observe their effects on other variables. Measuring…

A framework is presented that relates concepts of audit reliability to the uses of information gathered from a discrepancy program audit of Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title IV-C programs in Florida. Three issues are addressed: (1) the meaning of reliability in relation to the audit process; (2) the importance of reliability of auditor…

A general process for testing the feasibility of applying alternative mathematical or statistical models to the solution of a practical problem is presented and flowcharted. The system is used to compare five models for test equating: (1) anchor test equating using classical test theory; (2) anchor test equating using the one-parameter logistic…

A study was conducted to examine the relationship between life-style, personality, role concept, and the influence of significant others in married women pursuing traditional, neotraditional, and nontraditional life-styles. Traditional women are defined as those who left paid employment after marriage or the birth of their first child;…

To support young children in bringing all of their resources to bear on constructing meaning from print, teachers must be aware of how children learn, must make use of a variety of learning materials, and must carefully prepare the contextual setting in which children move into reading. Teachers should focus on planning a classroom reading…

This document provides an overview of the school variables and unit variables used in Phase 1 of the Individually Guided Education (IGE) evaluation. Included in the discussion of each variable are a verbal definition of the variable, a description of the distribution of the variable in the 156 schools that participated in the Phase 1 study, and…

In August of 1978 the Southern Rural Development Center (SRDC) published an annotated bibliography on Education Needs Projection and Rural Development; this synthesis paper follows that bibliography and is intended to relate some of the useful applications derived from the survey of the literature. Five papers are included in the synthesis. The…

THIS ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE INSTRUCTIONAL USES OF SIMULATION IS INDEXED FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF THE USER. ONLY LIMITED ASPECTS OF MAN-MACHINE INSTRUCTIONAL SYSTEMS ARE CONSIDERED. ALTHOUGH MOST OF THE ITEMS ARE RELATED TO THE INSTRUCTIONAL USES OF SIMULATION, SOME ITEMS ARE RELATED TO THE DESIGN OF INSTRUCTIONAL SYSTEMS. THE BIBLIOGRAPHY…

A study of the nature, product, expenses, and income of a university develops a methodology to translate a university's statement of these descriptive data into an analytical cost study framework. The product of a university is defined as the intellectual growth of students and staff. Since this product can not be quantified, costs are assigned to…

This anthology of children's writing from two Infant, 10 Junior, two Modern, and two Grammar schools in the West Riding of Yorkshire focuses attention on the child's powers of expression rather than on his technical accomplishments . The work from each school is prefaced by a statement from the teacher describing the circumstances under which the…

This paper discusses the social realities which characteristically confront the urban school, how the school presently adapts to the exigencies of an urban environment, and how the school program might be better fitted to this environment. The urban realities and the psychological pressures associated with these realities are classified as--(1)…

This document presents a model for a Human Relations School, an educational system in which attention is formally focused on the human relations aspects of the school, those aspects traditionally subordinated to cognitive objectives. Ten basic assumptions are listed which led to the identification of a set of goal areas. Five to 10…

This compilation of resource materials for the teaching of written composition in grades K-6 is based on the assemptions that the desire to write frequently results from the enjoyment and stimulation derived from reading what another has written; that children's literature offers the pupil contact with master writers; and that this contact may be…

The records of 27 farm operators participating in farm business analysis programs in 5 Ohio schools were studied to develop and test a model for determining the influence of the farm business analysis phase of vocational agriculture instruction in farm management. Economic returns were measured as ratios between 1965 program inputs and outputs…