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Lunneborg, Clifford E.; Lunneborg, Patricia W. – 1978
To determine the most appropriate use of interest scales in predicting college major at graduation, data from the Vocational Interest Inventory were analyzed. Subjects were 2,175 college graduates who had taken the inventory as high school juniors, and had graduated in one of 22 majors. The effects upon accuracy of classification and conceptual…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Discriminant Analysis, High Schools, Higher Education
Smith, Ester G.; And Others – 1978
This paper describes work in progress on a project designed to provide the framework of an evaluation system which states may use to comply with evaluation requirements in the Education Amendments of 1976 (Public Law 94-482). The specific objectives are to: (1) develop and field test a process model to evaluate planning and operational processes…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Educational Programs, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs
Reeves, John E.; And Others – 1978
The interrater reliability of the Walker Problem Behavior Identification Checklist subscale scores was examined. An attempt was also made to determine whether the background, experience, or training of the rater-teacher influenced the scores given. Two independent raters, the regular classroom teacher and a teacher of the emotionally disturbed,…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Check Lists, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Download full textNational Center for Health Services Research (DHEW/PHS), Hyattsville, MD. – 1978
The conference reported on in this document provided a forum for identification, discussion, and recommendation of alternative policies and approaches to the involvement of blacks in the health decisionmaking process in the United States. Recorded and summarized are discussions which were held regarding the state of health policy in America,…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Administrators, Black Community
Reavis, H. Kenton; And Others – 1977
The document presents the final report of a project to develop and validate a three-phase system of individualized criterion-referenced assessment instruments to provide professional decision makers with reliable information regarding a mentally handicapped person's skill level at different stages of normalization training. An overview of…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Daily Living Skills, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Evaluation Methods
Willis, Margaret L. – 1979
A study examined the relationship between household work and those role problems which employed women experience to a greater extent than employed men. The research was based on an analytical model of the relationships between (1) three independent variables (personal attitudes, household work, and others' attitudes toward the individual's job)…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attitudes, Comparative Analysis, Employed Women
National Student Educational Fund, Washington, DC. – 1979
This report from the National Student Educational Fund (NSEF) contains a synopsis of the organization's activities for 1977-1979. The history of the NSEF is traced. The NSEF-sponsored Student-Commissioner Conference, the development of the California Financial Aid Workbook for High School Students and Their Parents, and other outreach programs…
Descriptors: Activism, Annual Reports, Budgets, College Students
PDF pending restorationMackey, William F. – 1978
This is a preliminary version of a listing of meetings on the teaching of languages. It includes meetings known by the terms congress, conference, and symposium, with special emphasis on international meetings. The work is divided into five chapters: (1) the origin and development of conferences on the teaching of languages; (2) a chronological…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Conference Reports, Conferences, Educational Policy
Johnson, Mark D.; Chance, C. William – 1979
The role of research and information in legislative decisionmaking is discussed. It is suggested that planning is of marginal utility to state legislatures. The primary obstacles to planning in the legislative arena are the turnover among state legislators, internal shifts of power, and the legislative tendency to deal with discrete policy issues…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Conference Reports, Decision Making, Higher Education
McLaughlin, Gerald W.; And Others – 1979
The relationship between enrollment and costs at colleges and universities is examined. The question of whether large size provides economy of scale for operating and the manner in which complexity, size, costs, and enrollment interrelate are addressed. Data were analyzed from a national sample of 1,347 four-year universities, with an enrollment…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Curriculum, College Planning, Conference Reports
Hammer, P.; Smith, W. A. S. – 1979
Attrition and completion was studied at an open university, the Athabasca University in Canada. The multiple-choice and open-ended questionnaire asked students to indicate why they withdrew or completed the course and to specify the conditions under which they could pursue their studies. Of the 58 questionnaires mailed, 55 percent of the…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, College Attendance, College Students, Conference Reports
Cooper, Edward M.; Leventhal, Richard C. – 1979
The use of outcomes research as a marketing tool for postsecondary educational institutions is discussed. Few such institutions integrate outcomes information into the institutional marketing program. In most cases this type of information is used to document actual outcomes, but rarely is it used as an indicator of needed change or success of the…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Students, Conference Reports, Databases
Bornheimer, Deane G.; Lonsdale, Richard C. – 1979
The history and influence of the Faculty Committee for Self-Governance, a group formed to oppose any form of unionization at New York University (NYU), are examined. The group was initially formed to support the "no representative" position in collective bargaining elections held in 1973-1974, and later opposed unionization again in…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Committees, Conference Reports
Knerr, Bruce W. – 1979
An experiment was conducted to investigate the relationship between similarity of troubleshooting strategies and similarity of sets of utilities (i.e., numeric values representing beneficial troubleshooting outcomes) to assess the justification for using discrepancies between student and expert utilities as a basis for altering the Adaptive…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Research, Electric Circuits, Electronic Equipment
Massey, Randy H.; And Others – 1978
Three kinds of rating statements, trait-oriented, worker-oriented, and task-oriented were evaluated in a context permitting the comparisons to be made in terms of criteria external to the ratings. One hundred twenty Air Force noncommissioned officers assigned to seminar grouPs of 13 or 14 were involved. No evidence of superiority was found for any…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Individual Characteristics, Officer Personnel
