"Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty" presents new and surprising findings about career differences between female and male full-time, tenure-track, and tenured faculty in science, engineering, and mathematics at the nation's top research universities. Much of this…

This report describes the self-reported attitudes and motivations of first-year students nationally at the beginning of the undergraduate experience, based on a 100-item motivational assessment administered in the summer and fall of 2009. In particular, the report examines attitudes that may have posed barriers and opportunities for students as…

Social institutions that have been around for thousands of years generally change slowly, when they change at all. But that's not the way things have been playing out with marriage and family since the middle of the 20th Century. Some scholars argue that in the past five decades, the basic architecture of these age-old institutions has changed as…

This statistical digest presents data on the prevalence of disabling conditions among the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States. Data were obtained from the National Health Interview Survey, consisting of 49,401 household interviews with 128,412 people in 1992. Disability is defined as a limitation in social or other…

A reply to the preceding article in this issue. (IRT) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Procedures (Evaluation).

A summary of responses to a questionnaire surveying 1,121 four-year colleges and universities on trends in physical education programming is presented under the headings: availability, requirement, sex composition, trends, electives, teaching faculty, credit, and grades. (MJB)

A "portrait" of a child abuser based on studies of the 60,000 cases of child abuse reported in the United States each year. (MF)

Preliminary report on the findings of a nationwide survey of the use of instructional television in schools. (STS)

Reports on responses of 42 of 48 educational associations surveyed to determine their membership categories and numbers of members in each, projected annual dues, costs of convention registration, and other factors related to their annual meetings. (SK)

Responses received from 47 nationally recognized authorities in behavior disorders revealed that setting generalization of intervention effects, durability of treatment program and effects, and adolescent programing were the most frequently cited issues needing research attention. Implications for future research and funding activities are…

Finds that weekly and daily newspapers tend to carry similar proportions of content, but differences in proportions of content are associated with circulation of the community newspaper. (Author)

This working paper contains reports of five studies of variance estimation methods. The first, An Empirical Study of Poststratified Estimator, by Fan Zhang uses data from the National Household Education Survey to illustrate use of poststratified estimation. The second paper, BRR Variance Estimation Using BPLX Hadamard Procedure, by Stanley Weng…

Reports on a national survey that gives a portrait of the American school superintendent -- the kind of education he brings to the job today, the experience he has had, the salary he is earning, and the obstacles he sees to the performance of his duties. (Author)