The document presents the 1978 annual report on child abuse as required by Pennsylvania's Child Protective Services Law of 1975 (Act 124). Following answers to 11 common questions, an introductory section examines the nature and scope of the problem and Pennsylvania's response in Act 124. The Department of Public Welfare activities are reported…

COLLECTED BY INTERVIEWERS FROM A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF 42,000 HOUSEHOLDS CONTAINING 134,000 PERSONS, THIS DATA PERTAINS TO THE HEARING-IMPAIRED POPULATION IN 1962-1963. THE REPORT PRESENTS THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE POPULATION WITH IMPAIRED HEARING, AND ALSO GIVES DATA ON THE UTILIZATION OF AND SATISFACTION…

FACTS ABOUT INSTRUCTIONAL IMPROVEMENTS MADE BY 191 WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE YEARS 1958-1961 WERE PRESENTED. IN ADDITION TO THE IMPROVEMENTS MADE BY INDIVIDUAL TEACHERS, THESE DISTRICTS DEVELOPED 976 NEW INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS. THESE DEVELOPMENTS INCLUDED ALL SUBJECT AREAS AND GRADES (K-14). THE FIRST PART OF THE REPORT SUMMARIZED THE…

This manual presents detailed descriptions and examples of standards and techniques for formatting and documenting machine-readable data files. The descriptions of syntax and stylistic elements are independent of whether documentation is produced manually or as a machine-readable text file. The manual also discusses rules of good practice for…

This report concerns the effects of prequestion and postquestion formats in prose learning in computer-assisted instruction. Five experimental groups studied a set of eight passages under different prequestion-postquestion combinations. Twenty-five subjects, volunteers with high school degrees, were randomly assigned to each group. A final…

A HIGH DROPOUT RATE BETWEEN THE SPRING AND FALL SEMESTERS OF 1967 AT THE DIVISION OF CONTINUING EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, PROMPTED THIS STUDY TO DETERMINE THE REASONS FOR WITHDRAWAL. THE STUDY POPULATION WAS LIMITED TO ON CAMPUS SPRING SEMESTER ENROLLEES SEEKING UNIVERSITY CREDIT. A 16 QUESTION SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE WAS SENT TO 1,090…

Information is provided concerning the sale of bonds for construction of public elementary and secondary school facilities. It is intended for use by administrators, board members, and the general public who must repay these bonds and hence must have some knowledge of their financing. A general description of the characteristics of public school…

Data on national employment for individual occupations and for selected industries are compiled. Short descriptions of the data sources are also given. Sections are titled (1) Occupational Data Based on Monthly Surveys of Households, (2) Occupation by Industry Statistics from Population Censuses, (3) Occupational Employment Data from Professional…

The control function of an organization includes the comparison of set management goals and performance. A trend has emerged in recent years to replace subjective judgments by objective measurements of performance in libraries. The credibility of statistical data, however, depends on accuracy used in gathering, logic applied in assemblage and…

Data for this study was provided by the survey of a random sample of adults in North Carolina which was conducted by the Institute for Research in Social Science. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in mid-1971. Responses to a question in the interview about public library use are analyzed here, together with data on characteristics which…

This study analyzes statistics of 17 public services units of the University of Colorado at Boulder libraries, measuring frequency of question-asking, types of questions and staff responsibility. The study seeks to determine fluctuations of reference service workloads over time, department staffing and training needs, and to provide supervisors…

Since registered voters have not been found to be an inclusive enough pool of possible jurors in some cities, this report attempts to make specific recommendations to the Superior Court of San Diego County for broadening the juror pool. Aspects of the theory and background of list matching are brought together to support and illustrate the…

The document presents, in table form, data on the pre-center characteristics of 46 student families in the Mountain-Plains program in September and October 1974. The characteristics include: family demography, racial origin, educational level, previous training, average number and length of jobs, employment status, salaries and income, welfare and…

The International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) collects statistics on education, both within the different countries and on an international basis. Its object is to facilitate the compilation and international comparison of these statistics. Tables cover: (1) national statistics of higher education in Europe; (2) study-program…

Reported are the findings of a study on the basic characteristics of 54 state Planning Councils for Developmental Disabilities. A summary of information is provided in Part I in the form of graphs representing size of councils, frequency of council meetings, type of state authority (if any), council staff positions, types of council committees,…