Reported is the twenty-ninth session of the International Conference on Public Education which was designed to bring together information concerning educational research activities from many countries of the world. Information received for this document was obtained from a questionnaire which was addressed to the ministry of education in countries…

This five-part report was prepared by the Ad Hoc Committee on the Role and Status of Women of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Part 1 presents the committee resolutions recommended for adoption by AERA. Part 2 reports on the participation of women in the educational research community, and includes: a historical survey of…

The resource agent role by the institutional researcher is not unique, but the structuring of this role within the framework of a planning management model is rather uncommon. This document attempts to: (1) present a conceptualization of a particular role for institutional researchers; (2) to define the planning management model within which the…

This booklet contains the proceedings of the first annual meeting of the North Carolina Association for Institutional Research (NCAIR). Contents include an address by the president of NCAIR concerning "Changing Demands on the Institutional Research Practitioner". He points out that in the relatively short life span of Institutional Research,…

This document describes in detail a study of postdoctoral training in biomedical sciences. Highlights of the study indicate: (1) During the 1958-70 period, 8,685 postdoctorals, equally divided between MD's and PD's, were supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), at a total cost of $86.5 million. (2) Directors of the…

This publication is one of two reports of the data acquired in the survey of Employees in Institutions of Higher Education that was included in the second Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) conducted in the 1967-68 academic year. Though the survey was concerned with all employees in higher education, particular emphasis was placed…

This fifteenth yearbook was designed to (1) provide a thorough and descriptive status report on all types of industrial arts research, (2) identify major shortcomings and needed areas for immediate and future considerations, and (3) provide information on how the teacher educator interested in performing research can overcome his two greatest…

Although management of a large-scale research study is the responsibility of the team of investigators, control of the educational treatment is often shared with teachers and administrators in participating schools. This results in continuous modification of objectives and procedures which, in the traditional view, is poor scientific practice and…

This study of 416 African Education Research (AER) projects was conducted to: (a) provide information on current studies by Africans on African education; (b) provide a framework for critical analysis of research based on a classification of the issues; and (c) provide a listing and discussion of continuing research resources which would aid…

This handbook is for the student with little or no previous experience with computer utilization for data processing. Sample problems to be run on the computer are included. It gives: (1) an overview of the sequence of steps from obtaining data to receiving computer output, (2) a guide to common computer packages, (3) an illustration of the use of…

This report of the Committee for Educational Research of the Council of Europe consists of five parts. The first section is a presentation of the conclusions and recommendations of a working group of the committee on the training and career structures of educational researchers. The second part is a general overview of status of training of…

This report describes the fourth in a series of annual conferences of doctoral candidates who have received dissertation research grants from the Manpower Administration. These conferences are designed to provide opportunities for the candidates to discuss their work with each other and to meet senior manpower specialists. In the 1970 conference,…

This volume presents information on research practices used to stimulate discussion during the Second European Colloquium of Directors of Educational Research Organizations, November 7-9, 1973 in Paris, France. Most of the information is presented in the form of case studies that deal with the following questions: a) How were the problems defined…

As part of a program to develop and implement a program for training teachers and teacher trainers of the underprivileged, five educators participated in an Educational Researchers' Consortium. An edited version of the educators' remarks and observations is presented. A bibliography and abstracts of literature in the field of education are given.…

It is the premise of this report that an appropriate role for social scientists is to aid national decisionmakers by doing policy research: monitoring social problem areas, defining policy problems, and outlining, testing and refining policy alternatives. The report also points out some obstacles, such as the academic goals of detachment and…