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Taylor, Scott – 1979
A survey was conducted in Massachusetts in October-November 1978, to determine the public's attitude toward the educational objectives proposed as part of the state's Basic Skills Improvement Policy. The objectives involved standards for graduation from high school, and covered reading, writing, listening, speaking, and mathematics. Three samples…
Descriptors: Adults, Basic Skills, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
Download full textFACKLAM, JAMES; TIBBETT, JOHN H. – 1967
AN ATTEMPT TO OFFER MORE THAN A REMEDIAL PROGRAM TO UNDERACHIEVERS, THIS PROJECT WAS A 6-WEEK SUMMER SESSION DEVOTED TO TEACHING BASIC READING AND MATHEMATICS CONCEPTS IN AN INDIVIDUALIZED LEARNING SETTING. EMPHASIS WAS ON CULTURE AND THE COMMUNITY, BUT PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND RECREATION WERE ALSO INCLUDED. UNDUE CONFLICT, COMPETITION, AND PRESSURE…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Curriculum Design, Educational Innovation, Educational Testing
LYLE, JEROLYN R. – 1968
PRIMARY FINDINGS OF OVER 30 STUDIES DATING FROM 1960 TO 1967, INCLUDING RESEARCH REPORTS, PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS, AND THEORETICAL FORMULATIONS, ARE SYNTHESIZED IN AN EVALUATION OF CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE ON THE DETERMINANTS OF ACHIEVEMENT IN PUBLIC ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL SYSTEMS. FOCUS OF THE SURVEY IS ON DETERMINING INPUTS AND OUTPUTS OF…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Community Influence, Educational Finance
BENNING, JAMES J.; AND OTHERS – 1968
A FIVE-YEAR LONGITUDINAL STUDY WAS CONDUCTED OF 1550 CHILDREN, 384 OF WHOM WERE INTENSIVELY STUDIED AFTER BEING IDENTIFIED BY THEIR TEACHERS AS DEMONSTRATING SOCIALLY APPROVED OR SOCIALLY DISAPPROVED BEHAVIOR. AFTER 5 YEARS, THE SOCIALLY DISRUPTIVE GROUP OF 192 STUDENTS WAS LOWER IN ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT THAN THEIR APPROVED…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Delinquency
CUMMINS, EMERY J.; PALOMARES, UVALDO H. – 1968
MEXICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS FROM 13 GRADE LEVELS WITHIN THE WASCO, CALIFORNIA, PUBLIC SCHOOLS WERE TESTED IN MARCH, 1967, AS PART OF AN EVALUATION OF STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF RURAL MEXICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS IN CALIFORNIA. ANALYSIS OF TEST RESULTS REVEALED THAT MEXICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS FELL PROGRESSIVELY BEHIND IN PERCEPTUAL MOTOR DEVELOPMENT--A…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Students, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Methods
Center for Vocational Arts, Norwalk, CT. – 1968
This document is an appendix to the second interim report, "A Pilot Project to Develop a Program of Occupational Training for School Alienated Youth," VT 007 457. Included are the complete reports of the 1967-68 evaluation done by the Office of Field Research and School Services, New York University: (1) A Comparative Study of the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Case Studies, Counseling, Disadvantaged Youth
Elson, Jo Ann, Comp. – 1965
This volume contains abstracts of the 374 technical reports issued by the Personnel Research Laboratory at Lackland Air Force Base, in Texas, from January 1954 through December 1965. They cover studies in selection, classification, and utilization of Air Force personnel; systematizing information flow in support of personnel planning; methods of…
Descriptors: Ability, Abstracts, Academic Education, Attitudes
Papalia, Anthony – 1976
Foreign language teaching is a process which involves interaction, communication, personal contact, and a deep understanding of the student. Teachers must develop competencies in working with different kinds of learners if effective instruction is to materialize. This book identifies the competencies that language teachers should possess and…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Style, Cultural Education, Evaluation Criteria
Oller, John W., Jr., Ed.; Richards, Jack C., Ed. – 1973
This book of readings includes: "Language Didactics and Applied Linguistics" (William Mackey); "Psycholinguistics and Second Language Teaching" (H. H. Stern); "Linguistic Theory" (Noam Chomsky); "Some Psycholinguistic Controversies" (John Oller, Jr.); "The Cognitive Strategies of Language Learning" (John Macnamara); "Conditions for Language…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingual Education, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language)
Coffman, William E. – 1978
The Iowa Tests of Basic Skills were administered to over 600 black and white students in grades six through nine, to determine if the test showed bias against minorities. Outliers were identified from test results. Outliers are items which differ from the central core of test items because they fall outside the range expected from a random…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Black Students, Comparative Testing
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Because public opinion polls have become important sources of information for legislators and politicians, public opinion pollsters should carefully consider the relationships between gender wording of polling questions, measurement errors, and validity and generalizability of survey findings. Findings from numerous research projects indicate that…
Descriptors: Bias, Error Patterns, Evaluation, Females
Wahlstrom, Merlin W.; Danley, Raymond R. – 1976
Focusing on current elementary and secondary school assessment practices as reported by a representative group of teachers and principals across Ontario, this study was designed around the following components: (1) an examination of current practices of school boards, school staffs, and individual teachers in the assessment of student achievement;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Computer Oriented Programs, Diagnostic Tests
Cornbleth, Catherine – 1978
The purpose of this study is to identify trends in the historical development of inquiry and common elements in models of inquiry; evaluate the extent to which inquiry theory has been incorporated in representative inquiry oriented social studies curriculum project materials; and examine problems in curriculum development for inquiry skills. To…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Problems
Minneapolis Public Schools, Minn. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1975
Focusing on the basic skills of reading and mathematics, identified as major problems by a fall 1973 needs assessment of the Minneapolis Public Schools, more than 600 Title I supported staff worked to improve the achievement of these children in 43 public and parochial schools. Attempts to measure impact were made, and a number of individual…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education
Offenberg, Robert M.; And Others – 1974
In its fifth year of operation, the project served about 2,000 students in the Philadelphia public schools. The three components of the project are: (1) Model A, providing bilingual education from prekindergarten to fifth grade, (2) Model B, parallel in pattern to Model A but serving grades 1-4 and grade 2 at othe schools, and (3) Arriba, designed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Schools
