Student enrollment in institutions of higher education in the Boston Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA) for the fall of 1972 are reported. Emphasis is placed on total enrollment, control of institution, level of students, first time students, and residence of undergraduates. Tables include statistical data concerning student enrollment…

The academic year 1971-72 marked the first time in 6 years that there was no significant change in the number of foreign students reported enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities compared to the total for the year before. The number of U.S. students reported abroad, on the other hand, was slightly higher than the total reported in 1970-71 and…

Three questionnaires used by the Arapahoe Community College are discussed. In the first, Graduate Questionnaire, graduates from 1968-1971 were surveyed. A summary is provided of the total responses, which includes summaries of all open-ended questions. Summaries of each individual year are also provided, but only multiple choice questions are…

A battery of objective examinations administered to Grade 12 students in Toronto and Ontario consisted of tests designated as Scholastic Aptitude Test (Verbal and Mathematics Sections), World History, Economics, Algebra, and Latin. Norms were prepared on the tests for each of three groups of students: General, Technical, and Commercial. The tests…

An evaluative summary and a consolidation of the findings of Project VOLAR studies on the attitudes and career intentions of army officers and enlisted personnel are contained in this report. Tables reflect the results of questioning at several army bases, and compare the results from the different bases. Attitudes and rankings are determined by…

The source book is a compilation of statistical data from all of the mental retardation programs administered by the various agencies of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The first of three major sections, which concerns inpatient statistics from residential institutions, presents such data as number and characteristics of…

Reported were performance data for over 350 hearing impaired children who were exposed to the perceptual training filmstrips from the Language Improvement to Facilitate Education (LIFE) program. Research on the visual perception of deaf persons was reviewed and found to support the following conclusions: there appears to be a relationship between…

The findings of the eighth annual study of the counselor-counselee ratio among the 92 California public community colleges, as based on Fall semester records of 1972-73, are provided. The seven preceding surveys were previously reported (see ED 059 712). In determining the ratios, all colleges were asked to include only that portion of a…

Data relating to population and family planning in three foreign countries are presented in these situation reports. Countries included are Ghana, India, and South Africa. Information is provided under two topics: general background and family planning situation, where appropriate and if it is available. General background covers ethnic groups,…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a Western Australian report on higher education in that state. The Committee recommended that a "Tertiary Education Commission" be established as an on-going body, to advise the Government on developments over the whole field of tertiary education and to…

The report provides an overview of the nature of the open classroom in terms of implications for special education, describes an ongoing research project on the open classroom, and presents data on one phase of the project. Considered in the overview of the open classroom are the teacher role in the learning process, the role of individual…

The results of a comparison of television programming for children in the United States, Canada, Japan, and the democracies of Western Eruope are presented. It was found that: in European countries no advertiser is allowed to sponsor a children's program, almost none of these programs carries commercials, and except in Italy, no host of a…

Data relating to population and family planning in fourteen foreign countries are presented in these situation reports. Countries included are Australia, Burundi, Cambodia, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Papua and New Guines, Republic of Vietnam, Sabah, Sarawak, Sierra Leone, Tahiti (French Polynesia), and Tonga. Information is provided under two…

Attention has been drawn to the lack of standards for evaluating the degree of goodness of fit of patterns resulting from a principal components analysis of two data sets. An empirical sampling distribution of the statistic average trace (E'E) as E is obtained in the orthogonal procrustes problem, for various orders of A matrices was developed…

This document presents the enrollment figures for the institutions of higher education in Florida in the fall of 1971. The data are arranged in several categories: (1) statewide enrollment; (2) enrollment by institutions; (3) first time in college enrollment; (4) graduate student enrollment; and (4) trends and new developments in Florida higher…