Reports the major findings of a national survey of office professionals conducted by Honeywell Incorporated. When asked how they would spend $10,000 to increase their personal productivity, the majority of workers surveyed said they would buy a computer, software, or word processor. (MD)

A study was conducted regarding salaries of health, physical education, recreation, and dance program administrators at higher education institutions. A secondary purpose was to collect data that might influence salary--gender, administrative structures, title, age, geographic location, size and type of institution. Results are presented. (DF)

A national census of all state-licensed residential facilities for mentally retarded persons is summarized. Information on characteristics of facilities is presented along with demographic/functional characteristics of residents. The census verified the existence of an extensive variety of residential living alternatives available to mentally…

Results of questionnaires completed by 150 school districts throughout the county revealed that reading programs for gifted students focused on enrichment, emphasized teacher recommendation in student selection, shared use of basal series with nongifted students, came under the regular classroom teacher's responsibilties, and featured high degrees…

Results are reported of a six-year follow-up survey of state, district, and U.S. territory certification offices conducted to determine current requirements for early childhood special education personnel and to assess the status of known training programs. (Author/CL)

An examination of ministries of education across Canada revealed that current budgetary restraints have resulted in positive changes in priorities for special education, more efficient management of available resources, and improved cooperation among state and local authorities and educators. (CL)

A comparison of the results of two surveys reveals that during the last ten years business editors have increased financial news reporting, tightened their source requirements, and doubled the salaries of business reporters working for newspapers with circulations above 50,000. (Author/RB)

Identification of the subsystems in the personnel management function provides an audit framework that leads to a more efficient development of the human resources within the organization. (Author/IRT)

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The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) asks persons aged 12 or older about their use of marijuana or hashish in the past year, including their frequency of use. This report focuses on how and where past year marijuana users aged 18 to 25 obtained their most recently used marijuana. Findings include estimates from the combined 2002,…

In 2003, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and UNESCO co-organized a Regional Workshop on School Library Services in South East Asia. It was followed by a project to examine the current state of information literacy education and recommend action plans to increase school libraries' involvement in the…

The 2003 NAAL is a complex assessment with several components and various types of data. The primary purpose of this publication is to describe the assessment's key features and data types. Thus, the publication covers the critical concepts and features carried over from the 1992 assessment, as well as those new to the 2003 assessment--for…

This report describes the imputation procedures used to deal with missing data in the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88), the only current National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) dataset that contains scores from cognitive tests given the same set of students at multiple time points. As is inevitable, cognitive test…

This paper summarizes recent experience of large-scale, nationally representative longitudinal youth transition studies in the United States. Two study series are considered. First is the longitudinal youth cohorts of the U.S. Department of Labors Bureau of Labor Statistics, the National Longitudinal Youth Study, with cohorts that started in 1979…

In large multipurpose surveys, it is common to select the sample systematically proportional to some measure of size (PPS) that is correlated with an important variable of interest. Assuming the frame is sorted in a useful deterministic manner, systematic sample methodologies provide an additional control on the sample allocation, beyond the…