A major problem identified in the current, manually kept high school attendance system is the inability to handle the large volune of daily information. This ineffectual data management is reflected by the high absentee and tardy rates. Additionally, this failure to produce current and timely reports hinders class cut reporting. This is evidenced…

The impact which program evaluation and subsequent short-term in-service education efforts had upon the curricular programs of two distinctly different school settings was assessed. In addition, the appropriateness of the Kunkel-McElhinney model of curriculum evaluation, as perceived by professional school personnel, was examined and assessed. The…

The purpose of this report is to focus attention on nurse manpower data and the related coordinating activities of the Interagency Conference on Nursing Statistics (ICONS). The report describes ICONS and its objectives and presents a summary of the proceedings of the organization's 1971 conference. The papers which are included provide information…

A telephone survey of the size, characteristics, and viewing preferences of the audience of WPSX-TV, the educational television station of The Pennsylvania State University. Audience data are based on 1,686 households from a systematic probability sample of 4,176 prime and alternate respondent households in The Central Pennsylvania area. Included…

The International Relations Archive undertakes as its primary goals the acquisition, management and dissemination of international affairs data. The first document enclosed is a copy of the final machine readable codebook prepared for the data from the Political Events Project, 1948-1965. Also included is a copy of the final machine-readable…

This study concerned problem of decreased 4-H Club enrollment among senior 4-H Club youth in Tennessee. Data were collected from all ninth and tenth grade boys in Greene County, Tennessee, present on day interviews were conducted in each school. For analysis, data from 308 boys were classified into two groups according to their 4-H Club membership…

Primary tasks of this project were to locate, analyze, and synthesize (1) the available evidence for allegations that students receiving Federal aid for postsecondary education were being subjected to institutional malpractice and (2) the various suggestions and recommendations for protecting students from such claimed abuse. Improvement…

The article concerns a project which videotaped physical education classes and analyzed what kinds of behaviors took place in the classrooms and what kinds of teacher-student interactions occurred. (CD)

Reports the results of a radioactivity survey in England. Discusses the aim of the survey, experimental procedures, analysis, and results. Shows several diagrams, graphs, and tables. (YP)

Describes a lesson in which fifth graders made observations of candles. Discusses the progress of the lesson and the necessity of instructing students in what and how to watch and measure. Stresses that this can be easily accomplished inexpensively with imagination. (CW)

Presents activities where students visualize three dimensional figures, construct tables, discover patterns in the tables, and use the patterns to make predictions. (PK)

Describes the use of Appleworks to maintain classroom records of student scores. Discusses labeling, computing, sums, averages, maximum/minimum scores, and numeric grade, as well as initializing the gradebook and how to enter scores. (JM)

This study evaluates 35 federal and privately sponsored databases that report national education statistics in terms of their potential for informing policy deliberations. It argues that for all the national data collected, information is lacking on several major concerns, is often inadequate statistically, and is sometimes contradictory. Various…

The Physician Assistant Program at the University of Southern California School of Medicine in Los Angeles established a computerized database in 1980 to evaluate the clinical experiences of its students. The design of the patient data system, the computerization process, the implementation of the program, and its applications are discussed.…

Describes an evaluation that analyzed the implementation of a school health education curriculum, assessed cognitive learning outcomes attributable to the curriculum, and examined the relationship between classroom implementation and changes in students' knowledge. Results indicated that the curriculum had a positive effect on learning in…