A sample of 396 general dentists, oral surgeons, and periodontists were interviewed to determine their experience in treating patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus HIV, factors associated with their knowledge about AIDS, and their sources of information regarding AIDS. Fifty-six percent indicated a reluctance or inability to treat an…

Reports on a study that involved identifying and interviewing a sample of adult secondary distance education students to discover what learning strategies the group uses. Recommendations included prior screening of all adult secondary distance education students and development of a study technique program to teach learning strategies. (Author/CH)

The detrimental effects of nonresponse bias are particularly significant given the widespread use of the survey data collection method in educational surveys. Current methods for remediating nonresponse bias in educational surveys are explored and critiqued. (Author/LMO)

The question studied was whether opinions of persons interviewed about educational interests and perceived needs at randomly selected geographic locations in a metropolitan area differed from those of three other persons living in the immediate vicinity. With few significant exceptions, no statistically significant differences were found between…

The relationship between item parameter values obtained from independent Birnbaum (l968) model calibrations of the same item set from two different samples is examined. (Author)

The overall effectiveness of a school program can be assessed through a matrix sampling technique. In Illinois a district gathers evaluative data in 10 content areas by administering tests to sample groups of students. (MD)

Details of a reasonably precise normalization technique for coefficient alpha are outlined, along with methods for estimating the variance of the normalized statistic. These procedures lead to the K-sample significance test. (RC)

This technical report documents the procedures used to collect and summarize data from the 2000 High School Transcript Study (HSTS 2000). Chapters in the report detail the sampling of schools and students (chapters 2 and 3), data collection procedures (chapter 4), data processing procedures (chapter 5), and weighting procedures (chapter 6).…

Research suggests that quality home literacy activities make a difference in children's reading development. The federally funded Title I program of the Charlotte County, Florida school system promoted the role of parents as reading tutors in a way that supported the district's literacy development goals and philosophy. Parent involvement plans…

The purpose of the study outlined here was to attempt to estimate the influence which selected parental attitudes might have on the rate of moral development of children. (Author)

The authors were intrigued by James B. Conant's view of change and wished to relate his perspective to the advancement of practical knowledge within the field of education. (Author/RK)

What are the sources of community services program funding? The associate dean of instruction at West Hills College (California) describes the results of a survey of the seven "pace setter" states. (Editor)

Propositions made about short-course comprehensive schools and about neighborhood schools were tested in an investigation of all the 12-16 schools in a single LEA characterized by high levels of educational expenditure and an egalitarian ideology. (Editor)

What is the best and most economic way to identify pre-school children with handicaps? This study measures the relative effectiveness of parent check-lists and minimal screening procedures. (Editor)

The position taken in this paper is that if a person were an actual user of a Rorschach percept, the clinical significance of the percept undoubtedly would be different from that of the non-user who had minimal interest in the percept. (Author)