The overall effectiveness of a school program can be assessed through a matrix sampling technique. In Illinois a district gathers evaluative data in 10 content areas by administering tests to sample groups of students. (MD)

Details of a reasonably precise normalization technique for coefficient alpha are outlined, along with methods for estimating the variance of the normalized statistic. These procedures lead to the K-sample significance test. (RC)

This technical report documents the procedures used to collect and summarize data from the 2000 High School Transcript Study (HSTS 2000). Chapters in the report detail the sampling of schools and students (chapters 2 and 3), data collection procedures (chapter 4), data processing procedures (chapter 5), and weighting procedures (chapter 6).…

Federal agencies conduct large, national studies that provide abundant data easily accessible to researchers. While these datasets provide access to rich data for analyzing a multitude of topics, certain skills are necessary for appropriate use. Specifically, over sampling and multistage cluster sampling must be accommodated in the analyses to…

This occasional paper updates and extends earlier papers in the Monitoring the Future project. It provides a detailed description of the project's design, including sampling design, data collection procedures, measurement content, and questionnaire format. It attempts to include sufficient information for others who wish to evaluate the results,…

Research suggests that quality home literacy activities make a difference in children's reading development. The federally funded Title I program of the Charlotte County, Florida school system promoted the role of parents as reading tutors in a way that supported the district's literacy development goals and philosophy. Parent involvement plans…

The purpose of the study outlined here was to attempt to estimate the influence which selected parental attitudes might have on the rate of moral development of children. (Author)

The authors were intrigued by James B. Conant's view of change and wished to relate his perspective to the advancement of practical knowledge within the field of education. (Author/RK)

What are the sources of community services program funding? The associate dean of instruction at West Hills College (California) describes the results of a survey of the seven "pace setter" states. (Editor)

Propositions made about short-course comprehensive schools and about neighborhood schools were tested in an investigation of all the 12-16 schools in a single LEA characterized by high levels of educational expenditure and an egalitarian ideology. (Editor)

What is the best and most economic way to identify pre-school children with handicaps? This study measures the relative effectiveness of parent check-lists and minimal screening procedures. (Editor)

The position taken in this paper is that if a person were an actual user of a Rorschach percept, the clinical significance of the percept undoubtedly would be different from that of the non-user who had minimal interest in the percept. (Author)

Article considered whether pupils' creative thinking and problem solving abilities can be improved through direct educational efforts. (Author/RK)

This paper described findings which accounted for the coexistence of positive and negative results in previous reports and showed how the findings can be explained by a theory of the origin of handedness. (Author/RK)

Among the purposes of this chapter is the provision of a description of the sample and research design of the MISOE sample data systems, including a specification of the size of the sample. (Author/RK)