Information about personal background; professional activities; job-related attitudes, satisfactions, and dissatisfactions; and career appraisal was gathered by means of a questionnaire administered to a 25 percent random sample, stratified by rank, of full-time faculty in Minnesota's accredited, nontheological colleges and universities. Results…

Some basic historical college participation statistics from New York State and a set of factors that may influence full-time undergraduate attendance in the future are described. Some specific measures of college participation, including the College Going Rate and the College Entrance Index (CEI), are introduced. The most significant findings are…

The purpose of this study was to collect data concerning the handicapped students who are enrolled in home economics and to determine the type of training that should be provided for home economics teachers in Missouri. Survey instruments were sent to all home economics teachers in consumer and homemaking programs and occupational programs in…

The purposes of a Minnesota study were to determine whether or not there should be some type of teacher education program available to part-time adult vocational instructors, to determine whether such a program should be different from that currently available to postsecondary instructors, and, if a program should be made available, to develop…

A survey was conducted to (1) identify the major collections of audiovisual resources, especially 16mm films, in the state of Ohio; (2) describe trends in the development of such collections; (3) determine patterns of utilization; and (4) identify policy issues for the development of collections and services. This report details materials,…

Results of a survey using norm referenced tests of reading and mathematics for a large sample of sixth grade students throughout Texas are reported in detail. Statewide results are reported in terms of percentile ranks of average partial and total scores and in the percentage of students in each quarter of the norms. For each of 20 districts in…

As part of a study of the success of tranfer students as measured by their grade point averages (GPA's), questionnaires were sent to most postsecondary institutions in Pennsylvania. Of the 110 four-year institutions surveyed, 56 (51%) supplied usable data. They reported 2,441 transfers from Pennsylvania community colleges. Of the 2,000 students…

The Texas Student Follow-up Information System (Tex-SIS) for comprehensive postsecondary follow-up and the supply/demand analysis work of the Texas 1202 Commission, Office of Postsecondary Education Planning, together may provide a valuable prototype for other states and perhaps even for a national system of data collection and analysis. Tex-SIS…

Tables in this document present: (1) the 1977-78 racial/ethnic distribution of public school students for New York State's "Big Five" (Buffalo, New York, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers) school districts, and for the rest of the State; (2) the 1977-78 distribution of black and Hispanic students by location in the State; (3) the percent…

This report was developed as a result of a study that was conducted to identify and describe evaluation programs in vocational technical education at the national level, within the state of Wisconsin, and within selected local school districts in Wisconsin. The first of five chapters reviews the procedures used to synthesize evaluation programs.…

The extent to which the adult basic education (ABS) target population was being reached by Pennsylvania ABE programs was examined along with characteristics of the target group members. To estimate the size of the target population and describe its demographic characteristics, census data from the "1976 Survey of Income and Education"…

A survey of 29 Michigan community and junior college learning resource centers was conducted in the spring of 1979 to examine the status of resources and services, their scope and use, and the staffing and budgets necessary to support these resources and services during the 1977-78 academic year. The survey report compares the data from this…

The adoption, use, and refinement of an operational model for comparing academic programs and evaluating their needs in 200 postsecondary institutions of all types are discussed. The study was conducted in 1975-76 of all 5,375 degree programs in Pennsylvania. To aid in using the model, the following areas are reviewed: (1) the data items included…

Evaluation strategies used in a 1979 assessment study of information services in Oregon are described. The study was designed to assist staff and members of the Oregon Educational Coordinating Commission with a policy decision. A multi-form, multi-method and multiple audience assessment strategy was used in an effort to account for both the…

A survey of the 51 Illinois public community colleges was conducted during February 1980, to assess the status of institutional research (IR) at the colleges and to determine how that status had changed since the completion of similar surveys in 1973 and 1976. Major findings indicated that while 67% of the colleges had offices of institutional…