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Nemko, Barbara; Dutton, Eina – 1983
A study examined the extent of and the causes for student attrition in vocational education health careers programs in California. During the ten-month study, researchers utilized the following methods of data collection: analysis of data on enrollees, leavers, and completers that were gathered from California State Department of Education records…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Change Strategies
Resnick, Daniel P.; Resnick, Lauren B. – 1987
Recent developments in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have addressed criticisms of previous assessments and have focused on state education departments as the major clients for test results. NAEP currently indicates progress in academic learning but does not define which aspects of schools are responsible for successes and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Data Collection
Maryland State Board for Community Colleges, Annapolis. – 1987
Designed to provide information about the current status and future direction of Maryland's community college system, this report offers a summary and overview of all aspects of community college functioning in the state. Section I provides a general overview of higher education in Maryland, presenting a higher education organizational chart,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Degrees (Academic), Demography, Educational Certificates
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Office of the Chancellor. – 1986
In 1984, the California State Legislature enacted a mandatory enrollment fee and a new student financial aid program for California's community colleges. In 1986, a study was conducted to assess the fee's impact on student enrollments; ethnic and income distributions of students; distributions of full- and part-time students; changes in staffing…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Declining Enrollment, Educational Finance, Enrollment Influences
State Univ. of New York, Albany. Central Staff Office of Institutional Research. – 1987
Data on tuition and other student costs for the State University of New York (SUNY) are presentd, along with a brief narrative summary. Information is provided on: in-state and out- of-state tuition charges for graduate and undergraduate students; trends in undergraduate and graduate student tuition and other charges by program level, 1963 to…
Descriptors: College Housing, Community Colleges, Commuting Students, Fees
Dennison, John D. – 1986
A study was conducted to assess the purpose, design, and impact of three specific governmental policy initiatives, instituted between 1981 and 1984, upon the role and function of the 15 community colleges in British Columbia. The three policies included the introduction of a provincial model for long-range planning, the establishment of a formula…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Educational Policy, Financial Support
Little, Ann M.; And Others – 1986
With the objectives of assisting state educators in designing school leadership programs, school administrators in Tennessee were surveyed to determine levels of training and perceived training needs. Questionnaires were administered in 1986 to school board members, principals, and superintendents. Part 1 of the questionnaire dealt with…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Education, Administrators, Boards of Education
Poulin, Russell – 1986
Information on degree and certificate programs and the rate of student completions at North Dakota postsecondary institutions is presented for fiscal year 1985-1986. Information is categorized by program level and by type of institution. For the two-year and four-year institutions, the chief administrator is identified. Data are provided on…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Programs, Degrees (Academic), Enrollment Trends
Moody, George V.; And Others – 1986
Statistical data for the 1985-86 academic year are prestned here for Mississippi's 15 public junior colleges, including information on enrollments, degrees and certificates awarded, revenues, expenditures, academic salary ranges, transportation services, dormitory utilization, and auxiliary enterprises. Introductory remarks and the Board of…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Community Colleges, Degrees (Academic), Educational Finance
Minnesota State Dept. of Education, St. Paul. – 1984
The Minnesota Dialogue on Education project was a comprehensive statewide survey of public opinion on educational issues conducted by the Minnesota Department of Education from September 1983 through February 1984. The project involved dissemination of 250,000 copies of a Dialogue on Education Study Guide with a questionnaire attached, followed by…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Involvement, Community Support, Data Collection
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1985
Since 1978, annual studies have been conducted of the flow of transfer students from the California community colleges to the University of California (UC) and California State University (CSU) systems. The studies have focused on trends in the numbers of transfers and the ethnicity, majors, and age of transfer students. Findings from the study of…
Descriptors: Age, Asian Americans, Black Students, College Transfer Students
Thompson, Orville E.; And Others – 1986
Three studies compared the characteristics, preparation, and job satisfaction of male and female vocational agriculture teachers. The first was a national survey of teacher educators and administrators from 64 institutions (of 79 originally contacted) that prepare high school agriculture teachers. The other two studies examined the entire…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Career Choice, Comparative Analysis, Demography
Alkin, Marvin C.; Ruskus, Joan – 1985
A synthesis is provided of the information collected between September 1984 and April 1985 by Operational Program Review (OPR) teams regarding 22 California community college Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS) programs. Chapter 1 explains the purposes and evaluation methods of OPRs, and outlines the general characteristics of the…
Descriptors: Educational Counseling, Educationally Disadvantaged, Evaluation Methods, Outreach Programs
Grant, W. Vance – 1985
This paper presents a list of key items in the field of elementary and secondary education, statistics for which are frequently requested. Each item is followed by the date of the latest published or available National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) statistics. With the exception of Census data, all of these data should be collected by the…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Dropout Characteristics, Educational Finance, Educational Quality
Hoegl, Juergen – 1985
The purpose of this paper is to examine the benefits of early childhood education (ECE) for children whose proficiency in English is limited. Specifically, the paper (1) defines the basic characteristics of limited English proficient (LEP) children; (2) discusses educational risk factors and preschool enrollments of LEP children; (3) presents the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Cognitive Development, Definitions, Demography
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