Four groups of people were requested to review the Rand Corporation's design for a longitudinal study of school desegregation. These groups can be labeled as Desegregation and Minority Student Education Experts, Distinguished Social Scientists, Federal Officals Responsible for Desegregation Research, and U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR)…

Four groups of people were requested to review the Rand Corporation's design for a longitudinal study of school desegregation. When the study design documents were sent to the reviewers, an evaluation questionnaire was attached. The reviewers were asked to add any needed clarifying comments in the spaces provided after each question, and to write…

In May of 1973 the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights issued a request for proposals for the design of a longitudinal national study of the impact of school desegregation. A selection committee unanimously agreed that the proposal from the Rand Corporation was superior to the others, and in June 1973 a contract was signed with that organization. The…

The guide for hospital administrators, chiefs of services, and health personnel in general, suggests ways to evaluate the utilization of manpower and to restructure health manpower occupations. The need to evaluate utilization is outlined in terms of problems faced by health institutions. The experience of the Center for Medical Manpower Studies…

This study investigates sociopsychological variables in an educational context. The question of interest concerns the relationship between the conceptual complexity of teachers and the type of teacher-student interaction in the classrooms. Specifically, this study asks if a teacher's belief system is related to a pattern of asymmetrically or…

Children judged the ability and effort of peers whose test performance varied across two dimensions: number of problems attempted and percentage correct. There was a developmental progression in the children's evaluative approach. Younger children used only one cue, number correct, to evaluate both ability and effort. Older children used both cues…

Using four IMPACT innovations as examples (EXPER SIM, Guided Design, TIPS, and Student-to-Student Counseling), this study attempts to define the nature of technological and social changes in university teaching. Data were gathered in three phases: (1) a questionnaire was mailed to individuals who requested information; (2) the adopters of…

Emphasizing the unity of the Nebraska American Indians and their increasing involvement in their own affairs, this first (1971-72) annual report of the Nebraska Indian Commission presents the following: (1) names and tribal affiliations of the Commission's members; (2) "Letter of Transmittal" to the Governor of Nebraska from the…

Policy implications of the indirect costs of academic research were studied as part of a federally-supported project called "Studies of the Impacts of Federal Health-Related Research Expenditures upon Institutions of Higher Education." Since proposals for substantial changes in federal regulations governing reimbursements for the indirect costs of…

Specific objectives of the study were to: (1) determine the various methods and techniques currently being used to provide occupational updating by a review of research studies and literature; (2) sample the opinions of administrators and vocational education teachers as to the frequency of participation in, effectiveness of, and preferences for…

The present study confirms that it is possible to use readily available and easily analyzed data from the Mental Health Deomgraphic Profile (MHDE) to predict the demographic characteristics of persons seeking treatment in a community mental health center (CMHC). The procedure suggested is accessible to all federally funded CMHC's and does not…

The Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) of 1962 established a "small" grants program for the support of dissertation research of candidates for the Ph.D. degree whose topics are related to manpower. The report presents the budget details of the awards in 1972; total grant proposals submitted; the geographical distribution of…

The hypothesis of this study is that at the six-months level of employment at the Florida Division of Family Services, social workers with a bachelor of social work (BSW) degree will have a more positive attitude toward the usefulness of their education than those employees in the division of family services holding the bachelor of arts (BA) in…

This Illinois District 189, East St. Louis Public Schools, 1973-1974 evaluation report on programs, services, activities and projects funded in whole or in part under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act is organized into five parts. Part One, 'Title I Projects' comprises reports on seven projects. Continuing Education for…

With Circular H.S.1 1972/73, the Ministry of Education directed Ontario's secondary schools to provide an increased range of course offerings and to allow students as much freedom as possible to choose their own courses. To identify the effects of the individualized "credit system" established by this controversial circular, a number of…