This paper examines enrollment figures for blacks in colleges during the period 1940 to 1972 and develops a statistic that is more significant than either enrollment figures or percentages in order to determine the progress made by these students. (Author/AM)

This study has been an attempt to provide insight into the question of the influence of school resources on how well students perform academically. It examined the nature of the relationships between educational resources, socioeconomic and racial characteristics, and student academic performance in Florida. (Author/RK)

Article investigated the stability of both the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (EPPS) (Edwards, 1959) and the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperment Survey (GZTS) (Guilford and Zimmerman, 1949) by presenting new data on the intercorrelations of the scales in these tests. (Author/RK)

Investigates memory capacity in rats for information about spatial location and provides information about some of the characteristics of the storage process used in this memory. (Author/RK)

The higher education community can now produce statistical data with which to support its demands to Washington. The data are compiled by the Policy Analysis Service (PAS) of the American Council on Education. Implications of this data availability are examined. (LBH)

Understanding the concept of interaction is vital to understanding the relationships of dimensions of phenomena under study. Use of multivariate analysis of variance is described as a useful approach for discovering the extent to which events may be complexly interaffecting. (Author/AV)

Discusses research which explored the hypothesis that students who are fast starters in a personalized system of instruction psychology course would perform better and maintain faster course progress rates than slow starters. Findings indicate that students' starting pace is predictive of course performance and subsequent progress rates.…

In a discussion of the history and function of institutional research, the field is described as a continually evolving part of the higher education community. The author cautions that the tendency to emphasize the compilation of raw data at the expense of data analysis must be checked, as institutional research coordinates with planning efforts.…

This book is a teacher's resource guide designed to help students gain the range of math skills they need to succeed in life, work, and on standardized tests; overcome math anxiety; discover math as interesting and purposeful; and develop good number sense. Topics covered in this book include measurement and data analysis such as measuring…

One of the challenges limiting the capability for analysis of educational issues is that data on school enrollments, staffing, and financing are collected through separate but annually conducted universe surveys. Because the data are collected and provided by separate agencies, the available data from the nation's school districts are often…

This report describes and evaluates the methods and procedures used for the field test of the Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B:2000/01). The B&B:2000/01 field test included important changes from previous B&B surveys (conducted in 1994 and 1997) in its sample design and collection of data. The introductory chapter…

These hearings before the House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform address possible reasons for the apparently rapid increase in the incidence of autism. An introduction by the Committee Chairman, Dan Burton, provides background information and suggests a possible linkage between autism and the mumps-measles-rubella vaccine,…

Developed as a hands-on guide for students engaged in educational research, this book provides an introduction to key qualitative and quantitative methods necessary for those commencing research for the first time. The reader is shown how these methods work and how their outcomes may be interpreted. The book includes: (1) A variety of examples and…

This document explains the major features of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in a non-technical manner. It highlights the history and development of NAEP, how the data are collected, scored, and analyzed, and how the results are reported. This introductory guide to NAEP is designed to meet the information needs of teachers,…

This guide was written to provide basic program evaluation principles and procedures to aid educators in planning and conducting evaluations of school programs. Examples help the reader gain competence and confidence in program evaluation. The guide is meant to serve as a reference as the program evaluator conducts the five tasks of program…