Presented are detailed statistical tables showing research and development (R&D) levels for the fiscal years 1979, 1980, and 1981, reported by 95 federal agencies in the 1979 March-May period. In the tables, data for 1979 are considered to be actual; data for 1979 and 1980 are estimated. Historical data for the years 1971-1981 are contained in…

Initial efforts to collect data on the impact of Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I programs began in Pennsylvania in 1972. Due to the frequent turnover of local education agency (LEA) staff responsible for Title I impact reports and the fact that a study of the accuracy of reported scores revealed that some sort of errors appeared in…

The report contains papers presented at a University of Vermont conference on the implementation of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (P.L. 94-142), entitled "A Free Appropriate Public Education for All." Titles and authors include "The Legislative Intent" (R. Stafford), "Perspectives From the Bureau of…

The report, most of which consists of graphs, charts, and tables, compares the services, resources, and expensitures for the school years 1975-76 and 1976-77 of intermediate units providing special education services for handicapped children in the State of Pennsylvania. Included are such things as listings of the different types of programs each…

This publication gives the proceedings from a 1977 conference sponsored by the Conservation Foundation. Participants discuss the appropriate means to control water pollution, emphasizing the use of effluent charges as economic incentive for polluters to clean up their waters. (MA)

The 1978 annual meeting featured 60 papers in 15 subject matter sessions. Authors were primarily from the South, but senior authors from Kansas, New Mexico, and New York also presented papers. Session A, the plenary session, included three papers on contributions of multidisciplinary research to university research and public service programs.…

This report evolved from a 1976 workshop sponsored by the Institute for Science Education in Kiel, Germany. The document has two major sections: (1) Research in Science Education in Europe: Perspectives and Structures; and (2) Research in Science Education in Europe: National Reports. Subdivisions under the former heading include: Methodology and…

This report is a summary of the first of five phases of a demonstration project of energy conservation school building modifications. The ten schools studied in this phase were selected as typical of the variations of building design, construction, and location for schools in this country. Given in this report are: (1) descriptions of the schools…

The authority, function, activities and major recommendations of the National Advisory Council on Equality of Educational Opportunity (NACEEO) are described in this report. Recommendations adopted by the Evaluation Task Force were: (1) that studies be undertaken to provide more information about the processes involved in increasing achievement…

A study was conducted to identify factors which inhibit the ability of Vermont secondary school students to enroll or maintain enrollment in a vocational education program. At fifteen vocational centers and their feeder high schools, self-administered questionnaires were given to vocational program students and non-program students, as well as to…

A project was developed to link together the computer and an operations research technique (goal programming) and to bring them to bear on problems in improving vocational education planning. The process involves using the computer to solve a mathematical model designed to determine trade-off values among alternative goals and plans. Simulating…

A study was conducted to determine the type of documentation of students' skills desired by employers in the banking and residential carpentry industries. Data were collected by interviews with employers of random samples of banking institutions (thirty-one) and residential carpentry firms (thirty-five) in Oklahoma. Results of the study led to the…

A one-day conference was held at the University of New South Wales in Australia to consider alternatives to the Higher School Certificate as a college selection device. The first address was by L. H. T. West, who outlined some of the current controversies in the debate about selection and presented evidence that pointed to serious weaknesses in…

In this summary of the 1978 National Conference on Asians in America and Asian Americans, conference proceedings, as well as papers and panel discussions, are briefly outlined. Workshops on foreign policy, immigration, Asian identity, education and employment, Indo-Chinese in the United States, teaching English to immigrants, racism and…

Eighty undergraduates were administered four self-report locus of control inventories, in order to evaluate the convergent and discriminant validity of four categories common to these inventories: chance, fate, personal control, and powerful others. The four inventories were: (1) Internal, Powerful Others and Chance scales; (2) James Internal…