The purpose of this paper is to compare differences in value orientation of the French Canadian children in the public schools with those in a nearby parochial school. There appear to be different rates of acculturation reflected in Franco-American boys and girls, but they tend to be more conservative than their Anglo-American peers. It is held…

Third in the 1971-72 series, the report provides local school district officials with information regarding their own school districts and its schools as assessed by the Michigan Educational Assessment Program. The information can assist local officials in making decisions regarding the allocation of resources and the design of educational…

This report is an integral part of the publication series of the Youth in Transition study, a nationwide panel survey of adolescent boys, which attempts to discover and document how the contemporary social environments affect the development of young men during their high school years. Four waves of data were gathered from 2,213 boys comprising…

The designs for measuring the effectiveness of personalized educational prescriptions in a pilot second-grade classroom for the first and second years are presented. The analysis of pretest and posttest data is also given. (See TM 001 363 for summary report of the project; for other related documents, see TM 001 160, 365-374.) (MS)

The pupil description worksheet consists of 134 items which can be checked by the teacher to develop a profile of the learner. Details for use of the worksheet and examples of resultant pupil profiles are given. (See TM 001 363 for summary of project; for other related documents, see TM 001 160, 364-374.) (MS)

To examine library usage by faculty and students in the Schools of Engineering at Purdue University, data was analyzed from a sample of 12,000 loans during a three month period. User level (graduate student, undergraduate, faculty, or staff) and subject of borrowed material as indicated by Dewey Decimal Classification were examined for each major…

Methods and results are described of a study to determine if elementary classroom teachers in Colorado (1) have knowledge of the valuing education process; (2) have a preference for teaching values as opposed to values clarification, other valuing processes, or moral reasoning; and (3) can define the terms values and valuing. Ninety-two teachers…

Attrition, or the loss of study subjects, confounds the subject identification process. Design attrition occurs when subjects initially involved in the study are excluded because of changes in study focus or rationale. Data collection attrition occurs when subjects are excluded because they were not contacted by the data gatherer, or because the…

Sixty-six public libraries selected by random sample, substitutions and participation requests, tested Rutgers University 1970 Performance Measures Manual to gather information on the evaluation and improvement of public libraries. Selection was based on geographic location and budget categories. Following instructions for manual's use at…

Article showed that the average first year academic achievement of the English students in Arts and Science was higher than that of the Scots both in 1969-70 and in 1972-73. Author then canvassed three possible explanations in terms of national differences in ability, in age and in previous familiarity with the work of the first university year.…

Article described a measurement instrument that was designed to discriminate between potentially effective and ineffective teachers and eventually screen out those student teachers who failed to qualify. (Author/RK)

The scientific analysis of the teaching act is the subject of this article, with special emphasis given to measurement techniques (both inductive and deductive) and their problems, validity, and reliability. (DS)

Father-to-son occupational mobility is lower in Poland than in the U.S., mainly because Poland has a large traditional agricultural sector with high occupational inheritance. Education, which is affected by father's occupation in both countries, has a much larger effect on occupational attainment in Poland. (Author)

This review of a previous article (TM 503 836), concludes that: (1) the evaluation methodology was straightforward; (2) simpler data analysis would have yielded the same conclusions; and (3) exclusion of many experimental schools from data analysis and use of post hoc matching and covariance produced misleading results. (CP)

The study investigated why several minority groups in the United States have average fertility rates that differ significantly from rates of the native-born white population. Data were analyzed for social status and marital characteristics. Findings indicated that fertility differentials are too complex to be explained by references either to…