This study was designed to determine what happens to the intelligence quotient of freshman students during their enrollment at a private Negro college. The Otis Quick-Scoring Mental Ability Test, Gamma Em, was administered to 822 students from a population of approximately 2,000 in their freshman year at Hampton Institue, Hampton, Virginia. The…

This report is the 2-year followup evaluation of a proposed 4-year grant, studying the effects of a sequential learning program on disadvantaged children. Four- and 5-year-olds (N=86) were matched on several developmental variables, with one group at each age entering the Learning to Learn Program at either the nursery or kindergarten level. The…

Programs implemented under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act are described in this 1969-70 annual evaluation report for the Washington State Plan for Migrant Education. It is noted that exemplary projects and various aspects of the programs involved 6,058 children in regular programs and 2,305 children in summer programs.…

This work reviews the historical background, aims, and administration of further education in Great Britain; types of courses and course arrangements; and the teacher situation in further education. The beginnings of state aid, the development of technical, secondary, and university education, the 1956 and 1961 White Papers on technical education,…

To test the effectiveness of a program of acceleration and enrichment, five ninth grade classes of students (25 in each class, IQ's 120 or above) who had been in this program for 2 years were compared to two control (C) classes of academically talented students who had not had the program. All students were given a series of standardized…

A group of students normally distributed in aptitude and given the same instruction will produce a normal distribution of student achievement. It has been contended that if each of five primary variables in learning are optimized for each student, all students should be expected to achieve mastery of the material. These variables are (1) aptitude…

The 44 entries in this Civil Service Commission directory deal with the development and evaluation of training programs in Federal agencies (in progress, and completed) and with training methodology. Agencies include the Department of Agriculture; the Air Force, Army, and Navy; the District of Columbia Department of Public Welfare; the General…

An extended replacement of the author's "Techniques of Technical Training," this is a practical guide to classroom methods including grading and assessment of results, and a critical survey of all aids available to teachers. The text deals with the background to training, lesson preparation, lesson presentation, the classroom environment,…

A major variable by which national educational systems may be compared is their structural differentiation, defined (1) as a process, referring to the multiplication of one structural element into two or more structurally distinct elements; and (2) as a state, referring to the number of structurally distinct elements which exist in a system at a…

This study was conducted to explore the idea that the Negro dialect operates as a source of interference in the acquisition of reading skills by Negro children. Two first grade classes from an Oakland, California, inner city school were chosen to participate in this experiment. The pupils were all pretested. Half of them were then randomly chosen…

The adult basic education program of the Texas Extension Division of Texas University was organized to provide educational opportunities for at least 200 undereducated adults, evaluate materials and teaching techniques in actual classroom use, develop a student record and progress chart for reporting and evaluation in local projects, explore…

A general working model of cognitive development assumes that there are sets of orthogonal cognitive abilities, which remain fairly stable after age 7. This paper examines the long term predictive and diagnostic value of assessing specific cognitive abilities among preschool children. This model by empirical studies was defendable on the grounds…

To develop an assessment device for the evaluation of body image, to evaluate the body image of blind children, to make comparisons between subgroups (sex, age, IQ) and to derive sequences of tasks related to body image training, 91 children (mean age 10.06 years, mean IQ 88.32) were evaluated by a body image survey form. Analysis of the data…

An aptitude battery was validated against a Job Knowledge Test to determine if aptitude tests are culturally biased when used to predict occupational success. 287 white and 168 Negro Medical Technicians completed an eight test experimental aptitude battery and a Job Knowledge Test developed as a criterion measure of job performance. Linear…

The fourteenth annual report on New York State's educational programs for children of migrant agricultural workers presents program descriptions and evaluations of specific program efforts designed to increase the educational opportunities for these children. Specific areas covered are year-round compensatory education programs for school age…