One hundred and twenty-two elementary school classrooms reportedly engaged in open education in the State of New York were visited and a list of criteria produced. Discusses nine criteria that appeared to be essential to the operation of open education. (Author/RK)

Attempts to determine whether behavior is significantly affected by consumer education. Examines the money management, use of credit and borrowing and general purchasing habits of high school graduates two years after they took a consumer education course. Also attempts to provide valuable insights into the course content through student feedback.…

Family physicians and specialists were asked to identify the sources of information they used in the process of making changes in their clinical practices. An average of 3.08 sources of information were utilized for each change and over 50 percent of the changes were complete in less than one year. (CT)

Analysis of occupational data from the 1960 and 1970 Censuses and the Current Population Surveys for 1971-1981 reveals that occupational segregation of men and women declined more rapidly in the United States during the 1970s than during the 1960s. Most of the decline was due to changes in the sex composition of traditionally male occupations.…

Describes the holdings and services provided by the Roper Center, the largest archive of survey data in the world. Explains the structure of and topics included in the online database, and discusses fees, membership opportunities, and future plans for the center. A sidebar by Burns W. Roper is included. (CLB)

Institutional comparison groups can be selected in several ways, depending on the comparison issue. The method chosen involves both technical and political considerations. (Author/MSE)

Microcomputers can offer much assistance in one of the major problems that faces virtually every oral history program--organizing, manipulating, and making available the vast quantities of historical data collected. How to automate an oral history program is described. The database management system dBASE II is discussed. (RM)

This study examines state-to-state variations in the legality of bargaining over class size in public schools, to determine, first, whether these variations in the legal scope of bargaining bear any relationship to actual class sizes and, second, whether these variations are indirectly associated with teachers' salaries. (Author/CT)

Discusses an experiment designed to introduce students to the basic principles of the fast Fourier transform and Fourier smoothing through transformation of time-dependent optical absorption data from an oscillating reaction. Uses the Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction. Describes the experimental setup and data analysis techniques.

A general assumption of most recent reports on high school education has been that only academic subjects relate to cognitive learning. Analysis of data for the seniors of the 1980 High School and Beyond data set indicates that completion of business courses by students not enrolled in academic courses also leads to cognitive achievement. (Author)

This personal reaction to Cummings'"Comparison of Three Algorithms for Analyzing Questionnaire-Type Needs Assessment Data to Establish Need Priorities" specifically questions Cummings' use of the Mean Difference Analysis for comparison with Weighted Needs Index, and his focus on characteristics of the statistic that are of secondary…

The author presents suggestions to help the technical trainer overcome the difficulties of analyzing white-collar training requirements. These suggestions involve researching the scope of work, familiarizing yourself with terminology, learning industry codes and standards, gathering and analyzing data, and identifying major job responsibilities.…

A random sample of members of the National Council of University Research Administrators were queried about their job goals, functions, and career patterns in an effort to define various roles within research administration. (MLW)

Examines difficulties associated with the use of conversational features in the analysis of mother-infant vocalization episodes. Observations of six mother-infant dyads revealed difficulties involving (1) pooling of data; (2) the unit of analysis; and (3) selection of appropriate "expected" values for dyadic parameters used in tests of…

Presents results from a study of the use of broadcast teletex where decoders in 50 locations were equipped with meters recording use patterns. The role of indexes in the way users move through the database, use of chained pages, and variations in use patterns during the day are analyzed. (MBR)