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Smith, Douglas H.; Dowling, William D. – 1978
Prepared for discussion at an Adult Education Research Conference, this paper offers commentary and summative evaluation of eleven doctoral dissertations on the process of determining educational or training needs of specific adult populations. As context for discussion Joe Ellis' definitions of needs--Felt, Real, and Education--are noted along…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Education, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Needs
du Toit, Brian M. – 1978
The concern over cannabis and its possible effects have prompted the establishment of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. This project was funded as one of a number of international studies focussing on chronic cannabis use in its natural setting. Four major ethnic South African groups were examined relative to their use of cannabis: African,…
Descriptors: African Culture, College Students, Drug Abuse, Field Studies
Download full textMyers, Betty; And Others – 1975
Responses from 528 reading teachers to two scales, one indicating the extent to which they perceived a problem as occurring frequently in their classrooms and the other indicating the extent to which they perceived a problem as bothersome, were factor analyzed. Eleven "frequency" and ten "bothersome" factors emerged from the analysis. Among the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Problems, Elementary Secondary Education, Needs Assessment
Starck, Kenneth; Sudhaker, Anantha – 1978
Contending that narrowly focused empirical research on comparative professionalism cannot produce a complete understanding of journalists in developing nations, this paper calls for the development of research methodologies and approaches that will examine journalistic professionalism in the context of the interdependence of mass media and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Adelman, Clem, Comp. – 1978
The papers in this collection were initially presented in two successive conferences that dealt with the collection, use, and reporting of spoken language for educational research. The ten papers deal with the method and procedures used in studying talk in a school situation; an analysis of the interaction between the researcher and a group of…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Research, Interaction Process Analysis
Gil, Doron; And Others – 1979
An ongoing investigation of the process of reading diagnosis and remediation based on a theory of clinical problem solving called the "inquiry theory" has been undertaken by the Clinical Studies Group at the Institute for Research on Teaching. A review of several observational, computer simulation, and training studies conducted as part of the…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Educational Programs, Interaction Process Analysis, Problem Solving
Bennett, Bruce – 1979
A detailed description of a three-year project investigating the kinds of writing produced by Australian students in grades 10 through 12 is provided in this report. The various sections of the report describe the aims, objectives, and rationale for the project; some of its major assumptions and influences; a description of the student and teacher…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Secondary Education
NTS Research Corp., Durham, NC. – 1978
This document presents the research proposal and supporting documents for a study to evaluate the process of developing a comprehensive dissemination capacity in State Education Agencies (SEAs) and to assess the impact of the capacity building activities in the states, addressing two questions: Is dissemination capacity being built and, if so,…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Information Dissemination, Information Networks, Information Systems
McGuire, Marion L. – 1977
This report contains a description of a statewide study that was undertaken to gather, from all relevant groups of professionals and lay representatives, statements of elements thought to be critical to the operation of successful Title I reading programs. Following an introductory chapter, three chapters provide information about the design of…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Guides
Vaughan, Joseph L., Jr., Ed.; Gaus, Paula J., Ed. – 1978
This monograph is the first in a series of semiannual reports focusing on research related to reading in secondary schools. The first section includes three reviews of literature specifically related to word analysis instruction for adolescents and to reading programs that have been examined from a research perspective. Of the two papers in the…
Descriptors: Program Content, Reading Consultants, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs
Clark, E. Culpepper; And Others – 1978
The application of hermeneutic theory to the study of the oral history interview is proposed in this paper. The first section of the paper indicates why the oral interview is central to the approach of the oral historian; it then defines oral history as a communicative process and suggests an approach to investigating the oral interview that uses…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Data Analysis, Data Collection
Stanford Research Inst., Menlo Park, CA. – 1977
The handbook is designed to help state education agency (SEA), personnel make an accurate count of those handicapped children aged 3 to 21 years who are receiving special education and related services in their state. The child count procedures suggested are based on a study of accepted census practices and on the experiences of a number of SEAs…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Census Figures, Data Collection, Demography
Tuma, Nancy Brandon; Hannan, Michael T. – 1978
The document, part of a series of chapters described in SO 011 759, examines sociological research methods for the study of change. The advantages and procedures for dynamic analysis of event-history data (data giving the number, timing, and sequence of changes in a categorical dependent variable) are considered. The authors argue for grounding…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Educational Change, Measurement Techniques
Tuma, Nancy Brandon; Hannan, Michael T. – 1977
The document, part of a series of chapters described in SO 011 759, considers the problem of censoring in the analysis of event-histories (data on dated events, including dates of change from one qualitative state to another). Censoring refers to the lack of information on events that occur before or after the period for which data are available.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Educational Change, Measurement Techniques
CARTON, AARON S. – 1961
AN INTRODUCTION WHICH STATES THE PURPOSES OF AN EVALUATION OF FLES PROGRAMS AND STRESSES THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VALUE JUDGMENT AND EVALUATION IS FOLLOWED BY A DISCUSSION OF THE RELATION BETWEEN EVALUATION AND CURRICULUM. TEST AND MEASUREMENT PROCEDURES FOR EVALUATING FLES PROGRAMS ARE THEN SUGGESTED. A CONCLUDING SECTION INDICATES THE DESIGN OF A…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Audiolingual Skills, Curriculum Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
