During the last few years the research enterprise dealing with the status projections of youth, and in particular, the numerous empirical studies focusing on occupational aspirations and expectations, has increasingly come under criticism within the sociological community. The paper acknowledges the criticism directed toward projection research as…

Presented is a discussion of the evaluation of a parity model, competency-based teacher education (CBTE) program in science education. The evaluation design seeks answers to six questions: (1) Does a competent teacher emerge from the program? (2) Is the program valid with respect to the Concerns Model postulated by Fuller's work? (3) Do the…

This study analyzed 42 of the 50 studies on performance-based teacher education cited by Rosenshine and Furst and the teaching variables proposed. The studies were analyzed for seven characteristics: a) criterion of student achievement, b) operational definitions of teaching behavior, c) statistical results, d) legitimacy of statistical tests, e)…

This document contains data obtained from a pretest survey conducted to test the applicability of the instrument and the suitability of procedures to be used in the survey of secondary-level course offerings and enrollments during the 1972-73 school year. The last comprehensive survey of this nature was taken during the 1960-61 school year. The…

The criterion problem in the neoPiagetian cognitive-developmental literature is reviewed. This problem has provoked debate in the context of three empirical questions: concept age norms, concept training effects, and concept invariant sequences. It is argued that only the question of invaniant sequences in same-stage concepts is theoretically…

Individuals engage in media behavior several times daily. If a medium is actually used, that decision is one of a series of points which constitute a media behavior unit. The media behavior unit is used in several ways. First, by looking at particular attributes, researchers can determine whether an individual is consistent in medium…

Two important assumptions are made. First, research and development capability is essential to the fulfillment of the responsiblilities and objectives of any state department of education. Second, state departments of education are uniquely different from other educational institutions and agencies in their purpose and, therefore, in the type of…

This paper is an ardent plea for simplifying experimental design and the associated statistics. The emphasis is on design itself. Traditional designs from simple to complex and reviewed and the simplest, most basic ways of handling the data are presented. Design is stressed in such a way that simple statistics follow. The intactness of…

The emergence of a new theoretical framework for research in human development is discussed. The theoretical perspective is contrasted with the classical laboratory experiment, which produces ecologically invalid research because of the restrictions of the artificial laboratory environment. The emerging framework enhances ecological validity by…

The four colleges participating in the Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley initiated a project to stimulate the involvement of their faculty in the development of research, development, and evaluation projects on a scale comparable to that at larger institutions. The specific objectives were as follows: a) to organize and implement…

The author reviews cross-sectional and longitudinal studies on the status of intelligence in the aging, and finds conflicting conclusions: (1) intelligence does decline as persons grow older; (2) only some aspects decline while others improve; and (3) intelligence does not decline. Certain factors are adduced to suggest that such…

There is a need for clarity regarding different research strategies in order to assess the relative contribution of each. Using the framework of the Facet Design Technique (FDT) for problem structuring, eight general research strategies are identified as they relate to measurement fidelity, representativeness of units, and treatment…

This study evaluated short-term manpower projection methods for the personal services and medical and other health services industries. An employer benchmark survey was used to estimate actual employment of cosmetologists, barbers, registered nurses, and licensed vocational nurses. Out of seven projection methods which were applied to the data,…

Albuquerque's Title I evaluation staff is in the process of generating a comprehensive local evaluation design because it considers the federally required product evaluation unsatisfactory. The required mean-gain comparisons were extended beyond the dimension of program to the dimensions of school, grade, and Title I instructor. This evaluation…

The concepts of credibility, attraction, power, and "homophily" (degree to which source and receiver are similar in certain attributes) have been investigated as independent and unrelated variables in the communication process. The authors seek to establish the relationship of these variables as subdivisions of the overriding concept…