The Home Environment Variable Questionnaire was given to guardians of 73 fifth grade students enrolled in bilingual-bicultural education programs in Espanola, New Mexico, for the purpose of identifying those home environment variables which predicted academic achievement. Grade Equivalent Scores from the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills were…

A project entitled "A Study of Bridging Courses for Women" investigated the curriculum and the context of courses within the further education sector that act as bridging courses for women and explored the needs of and difficulties faced by women who are reentering the labor force. After selecting 12 separate bridging courses as case…

Nine North Dakota school districts, containing fewer than 40 teachers each, were selected and agreed to particpate in a 1976 study of the extent of professional activities by teachers and their level of morale. A survey instrument, developed to determine level of involvement in professional activities, contained questions pertaining to: membership…

In 1981, a follow-up study of 1979-80 students in William Rainey Harper College's (WRHC's) career programs was conducted to gather information about former students' employment and/or educational status and to obtain their evaluations of WRHC's programs and services. After two questionnaire mailings and a telephone follow-up of 681 former…

By surveying the viewpoints of parents receiving public assistance and practitioners who provide publicly supported child care, this study explored some of the values which underly child care policy and some of the practical problems in delivering child care services. A mailed questionnaire was sent to 1,200 parents (of whom 800 were receiving…

A 1981 follow-up study of graduates and former full-time students from 1977-78 was conducted by Mt. Hood Community College (MHCC) to determine the effectiveness of MHCC vocational programs in preparing students for employment and/or continuing education. Graduates were defined as associate degree or certificate recipients and non-graduates were…

Undergraduate students enrolled in the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) or the Student Affirmative Action (SAA) program at the University of California (UC), Davis, who withdrew before graduation were surveyed in 1981. Attention was directed to the respondents' educational experiences after leaving, their current employment, and their…

Strategies, methods, and techniques for improving college instruction are offered in this handbook. Units include: Pre-instructional Activities; Methods and Techniques: Focus on the Individual and the Small Group; Methods and Techniques: Focus on the Large Group; Methods and Techniques: Focus on Affective Learning; Assessment Techniques; and…

These appendixes to the final report of the evaluation of eight Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA)-funded courts training institutes contain individual case studies, survey instruments, a manual for conducting an ongoing evaluation, and a discussion of training and its evaluation. The twelve case studies presented in the first…

A survey of writing was designed to reflect the belief that improving writing instruction depends in part on implementing two principles. These principles are that one must be aware of and sensitive to the sources of language acquisition, and that one must know what students perceive as the major purposes behind their own writing, both present and…

Educational and vocational plans and changing characteristics of Indiana high school seniors from 1966 to 1980 were studied. In 1966, 1969, 1972, and 1975, questionnaires were mailed to all public and private high schools in the state, while in 1980, a stratefied random sample was used. The response rate of the first four surveys was 54 percent or…

Recognizing that similar approaches to moral education operate differently in different school settings, this paper assesses the methods and impact of a moral education course (Skills for Ethical Action, SEA) in six junior high school settings. SEA is an instructional program designed to teach seventh, eighth, and ninth grade students a…

Social, economic, educational, and attitudinal data concerning migrant and seasonal farmworkers in 16 states were obtained through personal interviews from January 1978 through February 1979. Responses involving about 84,000 individuals were tabulated for use in program planning, administration, and funding. Data from interviews conducted in the…

The Adult Basic Education Linkage Project (originally titled Project Reach) was designed to expand and promote linkage of adult basic education (ABE), English as a second language (ESL), and general equivalency degree (GED) programs in Western Pennsylvania with community groups and businesses and to conduct an extensive, ongoing outreach campaign…

The primary purposes of this study were to determine at each successive level of education the relevance of that education to the graduates, the level of jobs and salaries secured, and graduates' opinions of the education just completed. The three study populations consisted of all the 1974-75 school-year graduates from 10 city of Toledo high…