The National Household Education Survey (NHES) is a data collection system of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) designed to address a wide range of education-related issues. It is a telephone survey of the noninstitutionalized civilian population. In 1993, the NHES was designed to cover two topical components: School Readiness…

The National Household Education Survey (NHES) is a data collection system of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) designed to address a wide range of education-related issues. It is a telephone survey of the noninstitutionalized civilian population. This working paper presents information on the potential for undercoverage bias in…

These Literacy across the Curriculum materials are designed to support schools in England that have already done considerable work on literacy across the curriculum as well as those that are just starting. The training pack contains notes for 13 possible units of training. This booklet accompanies the training which introduces schools to the…

An evaluation was conducted of the implementation of the Federal Class Size Reduction (FCSR) Program in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), California. The evaluation included assessment of the extent to which eighth grade language arts and English as a Second Language (ESL) classes have been reduced to a 20:1 student-teacher ratio…

The purpose of scientifically-based research within No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is to identify and disseminate conclusive information on ?what works? in education, with an emphasis on determining what instructional input (curricula, instructional techniques) works to increase student outcomes such as academic achievement and language proficiency.…

When studies are conducted over a period of time, the sample size typically decreases. In a study of the effects of exercise therapy and education with recovering congestive heart failure (CHF) patients (Brubaker, Witta, & Angelopoulus, 2003), the sample size decreased from over 40 to 9 participants after an 18-month time span. Although the…

The present research is concerned with preference for visual (polygon) complexity versus simplicity in relation to national membership, using adult subjects from five nations (cultures) four groups of which were temporarily resident in the U.S.A. (Author)

This research note reports an investigation into the relationship tetween date of birth and early performance at school and especially into whether there were more poor achievers'' born during the summer months than in other months. (Author)

This study examined the relationship of SES, urvan vs. rural residence and geographic region to the IQs obtained by children on the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI). (Author)

This study sought to ascertain the effects of specially designed self-instructional modules (SIMs) upon the preparation of secondary-level social studies teacher-trainees. (Author)

Study attempts to determine the personality characteristics of high school students with an accent on two stereotypes, hippies'' and straights''. (RK)

Investigates the merits of individualized instruction vs. traditional methods of instruction. (RK)

Maximum likelihood factor analysis provides an effective method for estimation of factor matrices and a useful test statistic in the likelihood ratio for rejection of overly simple factor models. A reliability coefficient is proposed for analysis of factor solution. (Author/RK)

First purpose of this study was to investigate empirically the accuracy of prediction using regression weights selected through the use of variance-reduction procedures. (Author)