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HCR, Washington, DC. – 1985
This report describes a method to estimate the number of migrant and seasonal farmworkers present in a prescribed area during crop harvest, and to pinpoint areas of high need for health and social services. The collection of health clinic and federal program data on migrant and seasonal farmworkers in Florida, northwestern Ohio, and Maryland's…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections, Farm Labor
Gutmann, Babette; And Others – 1988
This report examines federal, state, and local databases containing information on migrant workers and their children, identifies their common characteristics, and assesses their potential utility to inform educational policy analysis. General criteria used to evaluate each database's strengths and weaknesses include standardization, reliability,…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Databases, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation
Dynneson, Thomas L.; And Others – 1989
As a means of investigating the current status of citizenship education in the schools, this exploratory study was designed to study graduating high school seniors' perceptions of their citizenship experiences. A questionnaire was distributed to four schools in Texas, Minnesota, California, and Arkansas and data were analyzed using Boos's…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Data Interpretation, Developmental Stages
Simmons, Joanne M.; And Others – 1987
The Collaboration for the Improvement of Teacher Education (CITE) Project, now beginning its third year, consists of a blocked semester of three courses--curriculum and methods, social aspects of teaching, and measurement and evaluation--and the related field experience activities occurring at the pre-student teaching level. Approximately 120…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Elementary Education
Jewell, Larry R. – 1985
This learning module provides students with practice in applying mathematical operations to vocational agriculture. The module consists of unit objectives, definitions, information, problems to solve, worksheets suitable for various levels of vocational agriculture instruction, and answer keys for the problems and worksheets. This module, which…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Computation, Data Interpretation, Definitions
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Gray, Mary W. – Academe, 1987
Recent federal court rulings concerning the burden-of-proof standards for complex employment discrimination cases involving the use of statistics have brightened the prospects for faculty plaintiffs in sex discrimination cases. The cases deal with salary differentials and race, promotions, and seniority. (MSE)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Faculty, Court Litigation, Data Interpretation
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Palmer, Alfred C. – Science Teacher, 1986
Describes an activity for determining how long and when a tree lived by comparing its ring sizes with local precipitation records. Suggests benefits for this type of dendrochronology activity. (TW)
Descriptors: Climate, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Interpretation
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Hanson, Marjorie; And Others – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1986
Identifies situations in which there is disparity between coefficients calculated from aggregate versus individual level data. Determines the magnitudes of these discrepancies, and discusses the implications for test score reporting and policy decisions based in whole or in part on the aggregate level relationships and discrepancies identified.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Interpretation
Wenzel, Stacy; Nagaoka, Jenny; Morris, Loretta; Billings, Sabrina; Fendt, Carol – Consortium on Chicago School Research, 2002
In March 1996, the Consortium on Chicago School Research (CCSR) proposed to evaluate the Chicago Annenberg Challenge's (CAC) newly funded reform efforts in the Chicago public schools. The evaluation aimed to understand how schools involved in CAC efforts developed as organizations and, in turn, how these developments benefited students. The study…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Research Projects, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement
McCoach, D. Betsy; Siegle, Del – 2001
This report discusses the outcomes of a study that investigated the relationship between student scores on the five sub-scales of the School Attitude Assessment Survey-Revised (SAAS-R) and the academic achievement of known groups of gifted achievers and gifted underachievers. The study examined whether gifted achievers and gifted underachievers…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation
Wilson, Richard E., II – 1999
This report describes a national telephone survey of randomly selected middle and high school principals to measure the impact of school-uniform dress codes on perceived level of school violence. In addition to measuring the impact of school uniforms on principals' perception of violence, selected variables such as region, gender, and educational…
Descriptors: Crime Prevention, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Dress Codes
Mann, Brian W. – 2001
This study aimed to describe, compare, and analyze the use of specific types of data utilized in decision-making by administrators of more and less effective community colleges. The study utilized a modified version of Kim Cameron's "Assessment of Organizational Effectiveness on Higher Education" to measure and rank community college…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Change Strategies, Community Colleges, Data
Educational Research Service, Arlington, VA. – 2003
The results from high-stakes assessments have often been used to merely grade and rank schools and students. But a new trend is emerging, according to this brief. Educators are beginning to see the power of using assessment data to improve instruction. This brief discusses ways to use data to improve instruction at the school, classroom, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Data Collection, Data Interpretation
North Central Regional Educational Lab., Naperville, IL. – 2002
This 20-minute videotape features 2 schools that have maintained a school culture based on using myriad data sources and processes to fuel their school-improvement activities. In the video the voices of teachers and administrators in each school articulate the ways they have used data to improve student achievement. They highlight numerous data…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Kaufman, Phillip; Chen, Xianglei; Choy, Susan P.; Ruddy, Sally A.; Miller, Amanda K.; Fleury, Jill K.; Chandler, Kathryn A.; Rand, Michael R.; Klaus, Patsy; Planty, Michael – 2000
Providing the latest data, this report on school safety presents a mixed picture: while overall crime has declined, violence, gangs, and drugs remain at some schools. Victimization at school declined from 1995-99, though rates for fighting and weapon threats remain steady. Students seem more secure, and gang activity decreased; however, in grades…
Descriptors: Crime, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Delinquency
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