A survey was conducted to determine the extent to which state certification requirements for teachers of the deaf coincide with certification standards of the Council on Education of the Deaf. (Author/DLS)

A survey was developed and completed by members of the Teacher Education Division (TED) of the Council for Exceptional Children. Results are presented for such aspects as specific roles for TED, services for exceptional/handicapped individuals, and recruitment and training of special education personnel. (CL)

A survey was conducted of 3,417 children and youth seen at some of two dozen university affiliated programs (UAPs). Results suggested that diagnostic services are most frequent and that UAPs often serve a tertiary care function for schools, though formal agreements for most inservice activities or child service are rarely in evidence. (Author/CL)

Reports on 1986 national survey on life care and continuing care contracts which revealed 20 states with legislation and seven states with bills in various stages of development. Found although numerous financial oversights were mandated, states varied in how they defined life care and regulated the document that residents signed, whether it was…

The development of a taxonomy of residential facilities for people with mental retardation based on program model, size, and operator is described, and data is presented on the system's use in a national survey of residential facilities. Program models are defined, and national summary data provided. (Author/CL)

Analysis of questionnaire responses from 16 gifted programs serving hearing-impaired school-age students in the United States suggested that only 15 percent of the 877 gifted hearing-impaired students reported are enrolled in special programs for the gifted. An unusually high percentage of the gifted Ss were residential students from families…

Questionnaires completed by 50 states and the District of Columbia revealed that many teachers currently working with handicapped preschoolers are specialists in other teaching areas, many states are not developing a specific certificate for this population, and that there is a discrepancy in definitions and criteria from state to state. (CL)

The effectiveness of four methods of handling missing data in reproducing the target sample covariance matrix and mean vector was tested using three levels of incomplete cases: 30%, 50%, and 70%. Data were selected from the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS) database. Three levels of sample sizes (500, 1000, and 2000) were used. The…

This bibliography, conceived as one of the earliest undertakings of the survey, does for the materials published from 1923 to 1931 what the Educational Finance Inquiry's bibliography did for the earlier years. Like the earlier bibliography, this one aims to stimulate school executives and research workers to progress in financing education. In a…

New indexes will more closely mirror wage rate changes by eliminating effects of establishment turnover and employment shifts. (Editor)