This report by the Kentucky Secretary of Education, Arts, and Humanities offers an overview of the initiatives begun in the arts and humanities with the implementation of KERA (Kentucky Education Reform Act), and a Kentucky Education Technology System. The Kentucky Education, Arts, and Humanities Cabinet was formed with restructuring efforts…

Through its Metropolitan Educational Trends and Research Outcomes (METRO) Center, the Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) helps school districts implement research-based programs for educationally disadvantaged students. The most prominent of these is Success for All, a nationally recognized school restructuring program. In 1992, SWRL made a…

The Mississippi Report Card (MRC) is used by the State Department of Education as a public school accountability tool. The MRC describes and characterizes school district performance and links the performance indicator profile to the accreditation level for each school district in the state. This study provided a descriptive profile of each of the…

Object relations theory holds that a constant and reciprocal interaction exists between past and present interpersonal dealings which, in turn, influence the development of representations. Such representations help individuals assimilate and understand immediate experiences. This paper examines the findings of recent empirical studies designed to…

H. M. Cooper (1988) has developed a taxonomy that classified literature reviews based on six characteristics: (1) focus of attention; (2) goal of the synthesis; (3) perspective on the literature; (4) coverage of the literature; (5) organization of the perspective; and (6) intended audience. One hundred and three meta-analyses identified from the…

The Department of Nursing at Oak Hill Hospital, Spring Hill (Florida) did not have a measurement instrument for patient evaluation of hospital nursing services. An instrument to measure patient satisfaction with nursing was developed and validated. Criteria identified through a literature search were reviewed, modified, and validated by a…

Assistance with paying for the cost of child care often makes the critical difference in whether or not a parent can work to support the family. This annual report provides information on child care assistance programs in Alaska. The 1996 Fiscal Year (FY) funding is presented for four programs providing a portion of low to moderate income parents'…

This document contains the semiannual report on the activities of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the 6-month period ending March 31, 1997. During this time the OIG continued to fulfill its statutory mandate through a carefully designed program of audits and reviews intended to help Education Department…

The brain is the seat of intelligence, the interpreter of senses, and the controller of movement. Research efforts on the brain have increased dramatically in the past 10 years; some of the more promising areas of brain and behavioral sciences research are reported here. The research was performed by 22 separate Federal member organizations and…

This paper draws on research that was conducted in a computer-mediated basic writing class taught during the Fall of 1994--the study focused on how computer mediated communication influences students' discourse strategies. The paper discusses how the act of "writing up" a research report constructed the subjectivity of the researcher and…

This bibliography includes papers about grading and reporting, sample report card formats, training materials on grading and reporting, and first-person narratives from educators who have tried to reform the ways they grade students. The first section of this annotated bibliography is a listing of the articles in alphabetical order by primary…

This report is a synthesis of what Public/Private ventures (P/PV) (Pennsylvania) has learned in 8 years of research into mentoring for adolescents. It also identifies the key issues that remain open with regard to mentoring. An impact study of Big Brothers/Big Sisters provides definitive evidence that youth can obtain benefits from participating…

The search for techniques to increase the effort that learners invest in video-based instruction has been hindered by the limitations of the instruments used to assess the construct of mental effort. Several researchers have noted the confusion of terms in the field that refer to the cognitive resources devoted to processing the stimulus. In this…

Nine national studies and reports on education and economic reform that were published between 1988 and 1992 were analyzed from the standpoint of their implications for curriculum standards in vocational education. A comparative matrix analysis method was developed and used to compare and contrast the nine studies/reports to the Secretary's…

This report seeks to highlight the achievements of Centralia College during 1993-94 and present the college's objectives for the future. The report is organized by area, presenting highlights, objectives accomplished, and plans for the coming year. The report opens with statements of the college's mission, goals, values, and services, and a list…