Three case studies of interorganizational collaboration between regional education agencies (REAs) and school districts illustrate how successful knowledge utilization occurs. Researchers studied how knowledge utilization services in four areas--staff development, linking agent assistance, information retrieval, and broad organizational…

This is the second of a two-part report on a study examining the relationship between effective school-community relations and student achievement. The research represents a case study of the school-community relations program of an inner-city school serving a population of 628 black students. An interview protocol was developed to gather the…

In 1970, a randomly selected sample of 101 residents of the community surrounding the University of Maryland, College Park, were surveyed to determine their perceptions of campus unrest, and their responses were compared to student perceptions of the same events. Study variables were liberal-conservative self-ratings of the residents, political…

An investigation was done to ascertain the effectiveness of individualized instructional methods as compared with traditional instructional methods in vocational food service programs at the community college level. Subjects, forty-three hotel/motel restaurant management students, were divided into subgroups: students who transferred from another…

Fifty residents of Houston, Texas, were surveyed to determine whether or not factors concerning their background affected their word choice, grammatical usage, and pronunciation. Each informant answered a questionnaire consisting of one page of background data and two pages of questions about his daily speech. In correlating the participants'…

Divided into five parts, this report describes a research project which used the Delphi method to identify the future roles of the library at Mercer County Community College through 1986, and to set priorities for those roles. The introductory section includes definitions of the problem, the terms used, the subject, and the organization of the…

The Institutional Self Study Form for Postsecondary Institutions (ISSF) has been developed to help accreditation agencies provide consumer protection to college and university students. It is designed to detect and quantitatively scale the potential for abuse in institutions, and can be completed by anyone who is knowledgeable about the consumer…

This book examines the study of compensatory reading programs which was undertaken by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) at 537 schools, and presents the results in a format usable by administrators, legislators, and teachers. Chapters deal with the following topics: the compensatory reading survey; communities and schools; a profile of…

Adequate grievance procedures for use by students are still relatively uncommon in public schools. A survey of a limited number of specialists in student grievance processes, designed to indicate the range of thinking in the field rather than to find a consensus, showed general agreement that due process and legitimate grievance channels are…

The interactive influence of student characteristics and eight measures of student-faculty relationships on the prediction of freshman year voluntary persistence/withdrawal decisions was studied. A questionnaire was sent to the total population of incoming freshmen at a large, independent, residential university in New York State. Usable responses…

A needs assessment survey was conducted as part of a study initiated by the Chatham County Public School System in Savannah, Georgia, to improve the educational opportunities available to learners within the school system. The two-part survey, dealing with problem area aspects of building and system level media programs, followed a standard form…

A survey was administered to all 2,640 1977-78 graduates of the Hawaii community college system. General, academic, and employment information, as well as a general evaluation of the college experience, were elicited and a 59% response rate was achieved. There were statistically significant differences between respondents and non-respondents on…

This manual describes three instruments that can be used to inventory elements related to adult education and career development: (1) the Adult Education Program Survey, which is designed to examine the concerns of adult learners in the community regarding their prospective participation in adult education; (2) the Inventory of Community…

This evaluation report presents the accomplishments of the Improving Instruction Through Supervision Project since its implementation, with specific emphasis on 1977-78. The project was undertaken in Region VI of the District of Columbia Schools and was designed to improve the skills of administrators in supervising teachers. The program is based…

This study presents financial data on Catholic high schools in five enrollment ranges across the country. The two objectives of the study were to acquire general data for national purposes and to develop specific models for managing Catholic high schools. Nine tables of data are available for reference. The first part of this report deals with…