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Kiesling, Herbert J. – 1972
This report presents the findings and implications of some research on the relationships of some educational inputs and reading performance of disadvantaged California Title I pupils which utilized a highly simplified model of the compensatory education process. The data for the study were gathered by questionnaire administered in personal…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Resources
Lloyd, Dee Norman – 1967
The study reported here was directed at an identification and analysis of characteristics related to secondary school dropout or graduation that are evident in the sixth grade. Subjects used in this investigation were 1090 white males--307 dropouts and 783 graduates; 1100 white females--200 dropouts and 900 graduates; 166 Negro males--69 dropouts…
Descriptors: Black Students, Correlation, Dropout Characteristics, Educational Attainment
Swanson, Austin D. – 1976
Multiple regression studies of schools are capable of detecting only "average" effect. A basic assumption of such studies is that all schools are functioning within the parameters of a given educational technology and that differences in output can be attributed to different levels of input. With decentralized decision making…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Analysis of Variance, Demography
Burstein, Leigh – 1976
Two questions are investigated here: What should the unit of analysis be in investigations of educational effects and on what basis should the units be chosen Under what conditions can relationships among measurements on individuals be estimated from the relationships among measurements on aggregates of individuals? Models using standard analysis…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Analysis of Variance, Comparative Analysis, Correlation
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Tron, Esther O.; And Others – 1975
The three papers in this volume describe exploratory efforts to adjust state aid to local school districts so as to reflect differences in local costs unrelated to school program content. Each study is limited to an analysis of relevant data for one of the three states considered--Michigan, California, and Florida. The underlying assumption is…
Descriptors: Cost Indexes, Costs, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
St. Pierre, Robert G.; Proper, Elizabeth C. – 1976
A general interest in attrition, or loss of units from a study, stems in part from the observation that the infrequency of attention to attrition exacerbates problems of data interpretation. As a substudy of the national evaluation of Project Follow Through, the potential biasing effects of attrition of subjects from the sites were investigated.…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Attrition (Research Studies), Compensatory Education, Data Collection
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Gamoran, Adam – Sociology of Education, 1987
Presents a study which examined differences between and within schools in the allocation of opportunities for learning to determine whether they influence academic achievement of individual students. Results show few between-school effects but important within-school influences. Includes ten charts. (Author/AEM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, College Bound Students, Curriculum
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Schwab, Richard L.; And Others – Educational Research Quarterly, 1986
A model of sources and consequences of educator burnout was tested. Sources were found to include a combination of individual's unmet expections, job conditions, role conflict, lack of freedom, and absence of social support systems. The consequences included intention to leave teaching, absenteeism, lessened effort, and lower quality of personal…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Expectation, Individual Characteristics
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D'Elia, George; Walsh, Sandra – Library and Information Science Research, 1985
This study was designed both to determine if patrons are able to discern differences in library performance and to investigate relationships between patron evaluation and use of public libraries. Highlights include study procedures, instrumentation, data collection, results of data analyses, and interpretation of results. Eighteen references are…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Analysis of Variance, Comparative Analysis, Library Services
Perlman, Jennifer R. – ProQuest LLC, 1998
The purpose of this study was to investigate the organization of associations among college-aged women's perceptions of individual and family-level separation-individuation difficulties and two subtypes of depressive vulnerability proposed by Blatt. One type is focused on achievement and issues of self-worth; the other type is focused on…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, At Risk Students, Depression (Psychology)
Ohio State Legislative Office of Education Oversight, Columbus. – 2002
Ohio career-technical education (CTE) occurs in joint vocational school districts (JVSDs), singles, and compacts; courses are grouped into three program areas: workforce development, work and family studies, and career-based intervention. The weighted funding approach and size of the current weights are the result of a 1997 analysis by the Ohio…
Descriptors: Class Size, Costs, Educational Finance, Finance Reform
Director, Steven M. – Evaluation Quarterly, 1979
A review of the literature suggests that choice of control group may have affected the policy implications of the major evaluations of governmental training programs. It is argued that the usual evaluation designs underadjust for preprogram differences between trainees and the control group and thus yield biased estimates of program impact.…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Analysis of Variance, Bias, Control Groups
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Richards, Ruth L.; Casey, M. Beth – Community/Junior College Research Quarterly, 1979
Describes a study to identify factors related to academic success at the College of Basic Studies at Boston University. Creativity, Scholastic Achievement Test scores, high school grade point average (GPA), and academic motivation variables were factor analyzed, and included with sex in a stepwise regression, with college GPA as the criterion.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Creativity
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Gallagher, Shelagh A. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1989
Examines predictor variables involved in the performance of 152 male and 143 female gifted high school juniors on the Scholastic Aptitude Test in mathematics (SAT-M). Concludes that males demonstrate greater visual-spatial ability which plays a dominant role in SAT-M performance. (FMW)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Adolescents, Educational Research, Females
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Tobias, Sigmund – Computers in Human Behavior, 1988
Discussion of reading strategies focuses on a study of high school students that used three presentation modes via computer, with and without explanations about the value of text review. Highlights include pretests and posttests, student characteristics, test anxiety, prior knowledge, and implications for aptitude treatment interaction research…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Intermode Differences, Literature Reviews
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