THIS DOCUMENT ALPHABETICALLY LISTS 145 JOURNAL ARTICLES ON EDUCATIONAL DATA PROCESSING PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1960 AND 1967. (HM)

IN AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOR AND THE DIMENSIONS OF INTERACTION BETWEEN EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATORS AND THEIR ACADEMIC WORK ENVIRONMENT, ANALYSIS WAS MADE OF MAILED QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSE DATA FROM A RANDOMLY SELECTED SAMPLE OF 83 SECONDARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS (83 PERCENT OF 100 SURVEYED) AND TEN TEACHERS FROM EACH RESPONDING SCHOOL.…

A FIRST-YEAR EVALUATION WAS MADE OF SEVEN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS IN OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SET UP TO PROVIDE REMEDIAL INSTRUCTION IN BASIC EDUCATION AND IN METHODS OF SEEKING AND APPLYING FOR EMPLOYMENT, OFFERED UNDER THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ACT. PARTICIPANTS RANGED WIDELY IN AGE, (21-76) WITH A GREAT NUMBER IN THE ADVANCED AGE GROUP. THEIR…

This paper describes and evaluates a citizenship education project for elementary and secondary schools. The specific purpose of the project was to develop and test a model to improve political knowledge and attitudes of students by systematically infusing political/citizenship education into existing elementary and secondary social studies…

Equal educational opportunity is the springboard for equal opportunity and is the hope of blacks, other minorities, and whites for fair participation in the economic marketplace. Standardized tests frequently contain a cultural bias that mitigates against black students, thus presenting a barrier to higher education. In many places, competency…

The Profile of Real/Ideal Scholastic Motivation (PRISM) self-report instrument is included in the user's manual. PRISM is a set of 30 postulates which measures attitudes in an educational setting (i.e., educational self-theory). The instrument has a closed response format chosen on the grounds of reliability, validity, and reactivity. It is scaled…

An English summary of a study on nursing education which was written in Swedish is presented. Standards of medical and surgical knowledge required of student nurses were evaluated based on all written test items in medical and surgical nursing set during one year at Swedish schools of nursing. The views of teaching staff and student nurses on…

A review of the basic information on intelligence testing as a schooling practice is presented, including a discussion of what intelligence is and three psychological approaches to studying intelligence (psychometric, behavioristic, and developmental). All intelligence tests derived from the psychometric approach are standardized and…

The Instructional Support System for Occupational Education (ISSOE), developed in New York during the past five years, consists of a student-outcome-oriented curriculum that is locally developed and implemented by teachers. The teachers who have been using the ISSOE materials have indicated some difficulty in implementing the system because of the…

Several problems result from irresponsible claims of accreditation by non-traditional schools of education and the laxity with which some states license teachers. A model that features accreditation, licensing, and performance evaluation could create a triangle of checks and balances that would help to solve many of these problems. A national…

This is the report of a conference held in March 1980, for the purposes of sharing, among black educators, experiences with successful education programs and devising strategies for improving ineffective schools. The introductory addresses by Shirley Chisholm and Augustus F. Hawkins are summarized, as are the presentations of John Algee, Mary…

This supplement to the California Business Education Program Guide for Office and Distributive Occupations is designed to assist office education teachers of secondary, postsecondary, and adult students to update their business education curricula in light of new technology and increasing demand for skilled office workers. Focusing on word…

The purpose of this part of the multimethod Head Start bilingual/bicultural curriculum evaluation (Juarez and Associates, 1979), is to present the results of a pilot test of a battery of instruments to be used in assessing the effectiveness of four early childhood bilingual/bicultural curriculum models. The instruments pilot tested were the…

The National Education Association (NEA) opposes the use of standardized, norm-referenced tests of intelligence, achievement, and aptitude, citing problems with their substance, structure, administration, and use. NEA suggests five alternatives: (1) performance contracts; (2) teacher-student and teacher-parent-student interviews; (3)…

Three assumptions underlying the use of norm referenced tests are examined: (1) that expressing treatment effects in a standard score metric permits aggregation of effects across grades; (2) commonly used standardized tests are sufficiently comparable to permit aggregation of results across tests; and (3) the summer loss of achievement observed in…