Results of two follow-up surveys of 1983 California high school graduates are presented. A sample of 1983 California public and private high schools graduates were surveyed in January 1984 to determine their fall 1983 activities (e.g., postsecondary studies, employment, military service). In May 1984, respondents to a second survey indicated their…

This report presents data compiled from the 118 United States and Canadian research libraries that were members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) during the 1985-86 fiscal year. ARL membership consists of 106 university libraries and 12 public or private, independent research libraries. Following a brief introductory summary of ARL…

Statistics are presented in chart and graph form on an estimated 26.5 million children under the age of 15 whose mothers were employed either part-time or full-time during the winter of 1984-85. How these children were cared for while their mothers worked, the complexity of these arrangements, the accompanying daily disruptions in the mother's…

Information from the 1987 Future of New England survey is presented, gaining the perspectives of the region's business, higher education, and government leaders about five major areas of concern to the New England states: economic growth, internationalization of the economy, education and training, environmental concerns, and public policy…

The purpose of the pilot study described in this paper was to produce a set of video report cards for the parents of a small group of college journalism students and then to determine the perceived effectiveness of such cards. Fifteen students at San Diego State University volunteered to participate in the study. Questionnaires were distributed to…

This study investigated the differences in the reading rate of eighth grade students on a cloze reading exercise involving the reading of text from a computer monitor. Several different modes of presentation were used in order to determine the effect of prior experience with computers on the students' reading rate. Subjects were 240 eighth grade…

Libraries at 52 U.S. colleges and universities offering engineering programs were surveyed by mail to determine how they handled the engineering information needs of off-campus, nonacademic users. Twenty-five provided usable responses. For this sample, 60.4% of the estimated service is to companies, 18.8% to consultants/entrepreneurs/inventors,…

In 1988, a survey was conducted of member institutions of the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges (AACJC). The survey was designed to study and advance the use of student outcomes measures for assessing institutional ffectiveness in two-year institutions. Three sets of student outcomes were identified for in-depth study: academic…

This study is the second of a two-phase survey of public library information and referral (I&R) service. In this phase, seven public libraries offering I&R services were studied in depth to provide descriptions of their operations, organizational factors, and the reactions of their users. Organizational factors and operations were studied through…

This report provides technical documentation associated with a 1980 Census of Population and Housing Summary Tape File 1F--the School Districts File. The file contains complete-count data of population and housing aggregated by school district. Population items tabulated include age, race (provisional data), sex, marital status, Spanish origin…

This file contains 14,825 records. The data tape contains the following files: (1) the raw data file for each respondent (randomized identification number; first follow-up flags and composites; base year questionnaire and test data; first follow-up questionnaire data; dropout questionnaire data; transfer supplement data; early graduate data; first…

Drawing from a nationwide pilot test of the Community College Student Experiences Questionnaire (CCSEQ), a study was conducted to compare Santa Monica College (SMC) students (N=106) with students attending nine other Southern California community colleges (N=498). The CCSEQ was designed to provide information on the relationship between students'…

A program needs assessment device, the Chapter 1 Instructional Quality Indicators (IQI), was developed for the purpose of guiding staff development by indicating areas of strength and weakness in Chapter 1 classroom practices and procedures. In this handbook, the development and administration of the IQI is discussed in section I. Section II…

A formative evaluation of curricular effectiveness of the General Education (GE) Program at the University of Montevallo, an Alabama state-supported liberal arts institution, is described. The GE Program is divided into 11 core areas. The American College Testing Program's College Outcomes Measures Program (COMP) objective test--a test of general…

An average of 33.5 percent of school district expenditures is spent on classroom teachers' compensation in Wisconsin elementary schools. The range varies from a low of 21.4 percent to a high of 45.9 percent. Financial data were analyzed from the survey responses of 110 of Wisconsin's 431 districts. The reasons for the average proportion spent on…