Attending the Institute held on March 29-30, 1974 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee were 300 or more administrators, state department officials, project coordinators, teachers, university professors, citizens, and students from throughout the state. The institute's goal was to "impact the development of Bilingual Bicultural Education…

Three mathematical models and their enrollment projections for higher education in Georgia are presented. The first model is an extrapolation of current trends. The second model is a simple linear regression model based on steady growth. The third is a multiple regression model attempting to account for the influences of several variables…

This volume identifies the variables which have been formed from the non-test data collected in NLSMA. The information in this report is a comprehensive description of the NLSMA population in contexts other than mathematics achievement and psychological characteristics. Data were included on school-community characteristics, socioeconomic…

In order to provide meaningful unit cost information, the librarian needs an accurate concept of what data should be measured and why. The dimension which has been conspicuously absent in library statistics is interpretation of the data which is reported, and the correlation of one set of data with another to reach a defensible conclusion. For the…

A data book designed for use by high school seniors to investigate the problems and processes of nation-building in Africa south of the Sahara today has been prepared. The book consists of two parts. Part I contains descriptions of the geographic, social, economic, political, and historical features of 24 sub-Saharan African nation-states. Part II…

This is a research report concerned with the availability of computer programs which made it advisable to try not only the factors dictated by a criterion, but successive additional factors until the meaning of the pattern is clarified. Examples illustrate the application of sequential factor analyses using a principal axes solution and varimax…

Encouraging a broader view of educational evaluation by emphasizing systematic means for the collection and analysis of a wide variety of types of evaluation data at all educational levels, an extension is proposed to the evaluation rationale formulated several years ago by Ralph W. Tyler. The revised model, patterned after the "multiform…

The terms evaluation, assessment, and appraisal are often used interchangeably in research on schools and pupils. Guidelines for their use and some of the similarities and differences in their meanings are explicated. The concept of evaluation is narrowed to refer to use of information on pupil behavior. Four separate components of…

This study was designed to: (1) compare the contribution of various categories of biographical data (biodata) to the differentiation of college attenders and nonattenders, and (2) to assess the accuracy of biodata as a predictor of collete attendance. Subjects consisted of 20,367 high school senior males who participated in the 1960 data…

This document is a collection of 12 forms that have been designed to aid school personnel in the processing of standardized achievement tests. The forms adapt to any typical achievement test whether the scale is a classroom or a large school organization. These forms are essentially a visual aid to interpretation. For the pupil there are two forms…

This paper describes the processes of Monitored Play-Therapy, a method which seeks to measure the changes which may take place over a number of play therapy sessions. The laboratory is in use at Georgia State College in Atlanta and is designed for boys seven through twelve years of age. The Monitored Playroom Laboratory consists of a control booth…

There are many unanswered questions about play therapy. Monitored play therapy is an attempt to discover answers to these questions. The main emphasis is on quantitative recording and analysis of the process and outcome of play therapy. However, because of its newness, monitored play therapy also has some weaknesses. The main strong point is the…

A report on a study of the use of space facilities in universities in England is mainly concerned with the methodology involved in the study. An extensive appendix provides information on 24 different technical aspects of the study. (FPO)

This museum survey furnishes comprehensive information and findings on America's museums. It is hoped that the survey findings will assist museums in assessing themselves as part of a major cultural field, private and public funding sources in determining museum needs, and the public in understanding the role of the museum in community and…

The study was designed to assess the factors influencing the career motivation of Navy physicians and dentists and to evaluate differential career incentives. A structured multiple-choice mail questionnaire was administered in March 1973. Twenty-six job factors were found to be related to job satisfaction among physicians and dentists. The…