There are currently measures before the California Legislature that would make changes in: (1) the composition of the boards that govern the state's public institutions of higher education; (2) the selection process for board members; and (3) the length of terms. The Joint Committee on Postsecondary Education has conducted a survey to determine…

Several studies have attempted to hypothesize about the probable effects on student academic performance at the Commonwealth campus versus Unitersity Park freshman admission for the Pennsylvania State University. This report imposes a framework of predictive modelling on the data in order to derive some notion of the weight of variables in…

This publication is a comprehensive statistical report concerning higher education in Texas and provides supplementary material to the descriptive and summary information presented in the 1973 annual report of the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System. The statistics relate to student enrollments, program development, and…

A series of tables is provided to identify the current tuition and fees structure of Rhode Island's public institutions of higher education: University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island College, and Rhode Island Junior College. These tables and tables showing tuition and fee structures among selected states provide the basis for a discussion of…

In the last decade, industrial arts departments have come to serve a comprehensive "industrial technology" function by giving greater attention to the technical aspects of industrial education. This comprehensive report focuses on current trends and conditions and likely future developments in industrial arts and industrial technology in the nine…

Drawing upon role theory, aging is defined as the patterned flow of individuals through a series of positions, roles, role sets, and position sets. From this perspective, the aging process is one of continual adaptation to transitions in social positions and associated role relationships. Data on the retirement transition are used to test and give…

A questionnaire survey of student attitudes toward correspondence study at three of five four year colleges in the state of Washington, conducted by the Office of Institutional Education Research of the University of Washington, using a format similar to its study of faculty attitudes in 1968, brought a response of 50% , which was augmented by a…

This monograph contains the second section, operations at the variable level, of a report of studies done in Helsinki, Finland, describing school achievement in terms of ability, trait, situational, and background variables. The report (1) investigates the structure of school achievement, (2) describes school achievement in terms of selected…

A knowledge test covering subject matter of the Beginning Sewing TV series was sent to 344 registrants following the series, to measure the program effectiveness. Although the response was small (38%), characteristics of the viewers were identified: median age of 44.1 years; married for 21.3 years, family size of 3.8, completion of an average of…

Procedures are presented for use in reporting costs for institutions of higher education in Illinois. Following the definition of various accounting functions, the scope of the cost and statistical report is delimited, and specifications are presented for the collection of data on students, courses, academic faculty records, and academic faculty…

An inventory of adult education offerings in high school districts in Pennsylvania produced a 75.8% return of questionnaires (449 districts) and provided information on the courses conducted by school districts by subject categories together with the number of school districts offering each course. Following are comments on the more important or…

A record keeping system for adult basic education using automatic data processing was designed and operated for one year by the Arizona Research Coordinating Unit of Northern Arizona University. During the year, there were 3,163 students enrolled in 160 classes in 19 projects. Females outnumbered males by nearly two to one but male enrollment…

This handbook explains major demographic techniques which can be used by developing countries to estimate total population and to make projections of population changes. The data were devised for field analysts who have limited mathematical and statistical backgrounds. Anyone with a knowledge of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and…

The Official Conference Guide provides key information necessary to assist businesses and other organizations in planning successful meetings. Volume 1 examines top meeting places in the United States and Canada, grouped according to regional location, presents factual information on them, and evaluates their suitability for meetings. Evaluations…

The long-term goal of this investigation is to design and establish a national model for a system of library statistical data. This is a report on The Preliminary Study which was carried out over an 11-month period ending May, 1969. The objective of The Preliminary Study was to design and delimit The Research Investigation in the most efficient…