In the fall quarter of 1988, a survey was sent to 20,047 students enrolled in North Carolina's 58 community colleges to gather information on student demographics by major, students' reliance on the community colleges as an avenue for furthering their education, the impact of commuting distance on attendance, patterns in college choice, the impact…

The Florida Merit Schools Program is described and evaluated in this report. Program goals were to increase student academic performance and to provide economic incentives to school staffs. Research phases involved: document analysis of school district plans submitted to the state Department of Education; interviews with school personnel from five…

The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) commissioned a study to determine the baseline costs of operation for the network of libraries and agencies that provide braille, playback machine, and recorded book services to patrons of the free national program. A 15-year projection of costs was also prepared. The…

These item specifications were developed as a part of the Arkansas "Minimum Performance Testing Program" (MPT). There is one item specification for each instructional objective included in the MPT. The purpose of an item specification is to provide an overview of the general content and format of test items used to measure an…

This paper is the final report of a multi-year project sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in 1987 through 1990. The main objectives of the research summarized were to: investigate the non-parametric approach to the estimation of the operating characteristics of discrete item responses; revise and strengthen the package computer…

Based on information from the 1988-89 IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System) Academic Libraries Survey, this report presents data from the higher education institutions in IPEDS, i.e., all colleges and universities with accreditation at the higher education level in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Analyses of these data…

Four essays and associated introductory text constituting the proceedings of a symposium on dropout research issues are presented. The introduction by Glynn Ligon makes a call for considering what is known about dropouts, what is needed to be known about dropouts, and how these findings can be communicated to educators, the public, and lawmakers.…

This speech by the deputy chief commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission discusses human rights, employment security, and pay-equity issues for Native Canadian women. The speech, offered in both English and French, calls the inequality of opportunity for Native Canadians a "national tragedy." It describes efforts to bring…

The relationship between teacher effectiveness, as measured by residualized student grades, and teacher evaluations by secondary principals is analyzed in this study. The two-step methodology involved baseline data collection and an effectiveness development phase. In the first phase, demographic variables were obtained from personnel files of 145…

While educational researchers frequently collect data from a sample of individuals on a sample of variables, they sometimes collect data involving samples of: (1) subjects; (2) variables; and (3) occasions of measurement. A multistage procedure for analyzing such three-mode data is presented, focusing on effect sizes and graphic confidence…

This report presents a series of data tables on staffing and salaries for the California Community Colleges. The first five tables present the number of employees by primary occupational activity; the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) employees by occupational activity; the number of employees by type of assignment; percent distribution and…

This report presents data compiled from the 118 libraries that were members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) during the 1984-85 fiscal year. A guide to library code numbers provides a complete list of ARL members. Data tables describe research library collections, interlibrary loans, expenditures, and staffing in fiscal 1985. Further…

This compilation results from efforts of the State and Public Library Services Branch of the U.S. Department of Education to disseminate pertinent information submitted by the State Library Administrative Agencies on key LSCA (Library Services and Construction Act) program areas. Each report was written by an administrative librarian who had key…

Presented is the third edition of a textbook designed for pre- and inservice teachers of elementary school mathematics. The content was selected on the basis of its direct applicability to the mathematical ideas usually introduced in grades K-6. The content is presented in conjunction with appropriate teaching strategies, determined by research…

This publication reporting the responses of 92 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) members to an automation inventory survey conducted in March 1985 was generated from a database developed by ARL to provide timely, comparable information about the extent and nature of automation within the ARL library community. Among operational systems, the…