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Jaret, Charles, Ed. – 1995
This booklet provides key facts about U.S. immigration and presents references to books and data sources on immigration, critical thinking exercises, and research project ideas. The topic of immigration, which continues to have such impact on the United States, should be a high priority in schools. The social and cultural aspects of the trials and…
Descriptors: Citations (References), College Faculty, Critical Thinking, Cultural Awareness
Herman, Joan L. – 1990
This study analyzes the ways in which school boards assess and utilize evaluation data and their attitudes toward testing. Interviews with 27 school board members from 10 districts indicate that board members tend to rely on informal working knowledge over formal information, and on district administrators' judgments. Findings suggest that simple…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Boards of Education, Data Interpretation
Shotland, Jeffrey; Loonin, Deanne – 1988
This study analyses infant health data from the 332 poorest rural U.S. counties for the period 1975-1985. The study updates and expands a report released in 1986. The data show that, until 1980, rates of infant mortality and low birthweights (LBW) improved significantly, especially in rural areas. The trend toward better prenatal care in rural…
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Child Health, Data Interpretation, Federal Programs
Mislevy, Robert J. – 1985
A method for drawing inferences from complex samples is based on Rubin's approach to missing data in survey research. Standard procedures for drawing such inferences do not apply when the variables of interest are not observed directly, but must be inferred from secondary random variables which depend on the variables of interest stochastically.…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Data Interpretation, Estimation (Mathematics), Latent Trait Theory
World Bank, Washington, DC. – 1987
This teaching guide accompanies the Life Expectancy at Birth poster kit, which presents statistics on life expectancy from 128 countries with populations of more than one million. The statistics relate to economic development and the changes it is bringing about in the world. Sometimes called indicators, the statistics are measures of social and…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Curriculum Enrichment, Curriculum Guides, Data Interpretation
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1985
To compile its projections of future employment levels, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) combines the following five interlinked models in a six-step process: a labor force model, an econometric model of the U.S. economy, an industry activity model, an industry labor demand model, and an occupational labor demand model. The BLS was asked to…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Employment Projections
Lacina, Lorna J. – 1984
Questionnaires were sent to 97 computer coordinators in school districts in Texas and 59 program directors in colleges of education throughout the United States to determine: (1) the computer knowledge and skills that school district computer coordinators perceive to be needed by classroom teachers; (2) the computer knowledge and skills that…
Descriptors: Competence, Computer Literacy, Data Interpretation, Elementary School Teachers

Rivard, Leonard Paul – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1987
Strategies for facilitating the reading of scientific textual materials are described, including establishing the reading level of the text, decoding figures and illustrations, recognizing the text's organization, inferring and remembering word meanings, sampling the text and inferring meaning, reading attentively to verify predictions, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Data Interpretation

Trueman, Mark – Early Child Development and Care, 1985
Critically reviews the influential study "Malnutrition and Environmental Enrichment" by Winick et al. (1975) and highlights what are considered to be statistical flaws in its analysis. Data in the classic study of height, weight, and IQ changes in three groups of adopted, malnourished Korean girls are reanalysed and conclusions…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adopted Children, Body Height, Body Weight

Van Cleaf, David W. – Social Education, 1985
A child's immediate environment provides an ideal data source for initial mapping experiences. How teachers can help pre-school and primary school children make block maps, picture maps, and drawn maps is discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Cartography, Data, Data Collection, Data Interpretation
Mason, Velma Garcia – 2002
Many Native Americans are reluctant to work with researchers who have not demonstrated a sense of obligation to their community. Research that has proven to be valuable has trained American Indians to collect data, incorporated participatory research methods, and supplemented quantitative data collection with qualitative research. The tension…
Descriptors: Action Research, American Indians, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
Barrow, Lisa; Rouse, Cecilia Elena – Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 2005
Using data from the U.S. Decennial Census and the National Longitudinal Surveys, we find little evidence of differences in the return to schooling across racial and ethnic groups, even with attempts to control for ability and measurement error biases. While our point estimates are relatively similar across racial and ethnic groups, our conclusion…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Racial Differences, Longitudinal Studies, Data Interpretation
Shah, Chandra; Burke, Gerald – Centre for the Economics of Education and Training, Monash University, 2004
This report provides estimates of job and occupational mobility by demographic, educational and labour market variables using data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) "Labour Mobility" survey for 2002. The report provides information on the effects of these variables on the probability of job separation. It also identifies the…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Education Work Relationship, Occupational Mobility, Probability
Cromey, Allison – 2000
Data from nine Michigan elementary, middle, and high schools highlight the challenges and common strategies found in the use of student assessment data to meet public demands for accountability. The information gathered from assessment tools varies by frequency and type. Educators have, historically, underutilized data to guide practice because…
Descriptors: Accountability, Case Studies, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Mann, Chris – 2000
This paper investigated the methodological challenges related to the use of computer-mediated communication (CMC) to investigate the impact of gender identity on student perceptions of university life. This longitudinal research project at the University of Cambridge (England) sought to determine the reasons for the disparity in numbers of…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Data Interpretation, Electronic Mail