The National Household Education Survey for 1996 (NHES:96), a telephone survey of households taking place from January through April 1996, is designed to cover several components: (1) Household and Library (HH&L) (55,838 completed interviews); (2) Parent and Family Involvement in Education and Civic Involvement (PFI/CI) (20,792 completed…

This document contains two papers related to the 1993-94 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). The first paper documents some of the problems that were encountered during student sample selection and the methods used to resolve those problems. It also provides some suggestions to alleviate some of the problems in future SASS studies. Significant…

A methodology for estimating descriptive statistics, specifically the mean and the variance, from a sample that is not normally drawn is described. The method involves breaking the sample down into subgroups and weighting the descriptive statistics associated with each subgroup by the proportion of the population that the subgroup represents. This…

Adolescents who were living in a child care institution and those living in intact family situations were compared with respect to their marriage role expectations, attitudes toward marriage, toward divorce, perceptions of generalized family interaction patterns, and family size preferences. (Author/RK)

In order to be effective, companies must use every meaningful approach to find individuals with high potential who might otherwise be overlooked in the complex organizational structure. In an effort to be more efficient, industrial firms and governmental agencies utilized multiple assessment procedures to identify and develop managerial personnel.…

Children learn noun pairs presented in sentences more readily than noun pairs presented alone; such a sentence effect is not found in college students. Two experiments were performed to evaluate the hypothesis that this discrepancy can be attributed to an interaction between experimental conditions and developmental level. (Editor)

One hundred sixty sibling pairs from two child families were sampled for sibling interaction behaviors as they relate to measures of categorization style. The study provides additional evidence of the importance of a child's siblings to his cognitive development. (Editor/RK)

This study's main purpose was to determine whether or not standard predictors of college success'' might perform more satisfactorily than usual if a 2-valued criterion based on dropouts was employed. (Author)

The present report is concerned with making comparisions between the nature and range of worries recorded by students at a British university and those indicated by New Zealand students, as well as with identifying associated variables such as examination success. (Author)

The present study suggests that although the reliability of an academic aptitude test given under formula-score condition can be increased substantially through empirical option weighting, much of the increase is due to the capitalization of the keying procedure on omitting tendencies which are reliable but not valid. (Author)

The data in this paper indicate that there are greater differences in the attitudes between boys and girls than between racial, ethnic, and social class groups on these variables. (Author)

Author proposes that the traditional concept of the teacher as a servant of the community may act as a resistor to change and may have to be overcome before any significant change in the status of teachers can occur. (Author/RK)

Article examines the young nomads who end up in East Village crash pads becoming vulnerable to exploitation, abuse, disease, and drugs. Their rehabilitation and its patterns are discussed. (Author/RK)

Article is concerned with a model for school system evaluation. The usefulness of the indices from this model depend on their stability, and this study presents evidence related to their stability when pupils and factors related to time are considered as sources of error. (Author/RK)