This paper evaluates the impact on student achievement made by eight New York City alternative high schools. The schools serve students with histories of poor attendance and low academic achievement, so an emphasis is placed, in the first section of this report, on findings which reveal students' credit accumulation and attendance patterns in…

This brief report outlines the preliminary plans of the University of Hawaii to develop a student flow model for its seven community colleges. This model will indicate the flow of students--progressing through class levels, changing majors, leaving or withdrawing from the institution. It will be used as a basic tool for planning and management…

Attrition at Empire State College (ECS) is calculated in terms of three types of counts: temporal, activity, and degree progress. The strategy for assessing attrition using these three quantitative techniques is discussed as are qualitative phone interviews. The attrition rate in terms of a temporal count was 28 percent. Phone interviews with 93…

This paper discussed an alternative school in which the roles of teachers have been redefined to include counseling functions. The counselor is a staff developer for the teachers, a community resource person, and an advocate for students in police court procedures. The psychologist is a staff developer for special techniques, a definer of…

Fairgoers, who attended the United States Science Exhibit at the Seattle World's Fair and therefore were exposed to the elaborate attempt at mass education that it represented, were studied as if they were "students." Attitudes towards science and scientists, information retention, and background characteristics were measured. Attendance…

This book deals with three aspects of adult non-vocational classes as provided directly by Local Education Authorities: fees charged in recent years and the association of variations in them with numbers of enrollments; variations in the provision of classes as between authorities of comparable size; and patterns of student enrollment as revealed…

This publication provides historical data on enrollment, weekly student contact hours, and average daily attendance for the district and for each college in the district. Detailed enrollment data (by student category and also by ethnic group) are provided for the 1972-73 and 1973-74 academic years. Ten-year trends are available for less detailed…

A brief overall report is made on the activities of the Department's employer-sponsored child day care center demonstration project for the children of employees. The continuing objectives of the project are to determine the effect of comprehensive child care on employee stabilization, measure the significance of parent participation, and provide…

This report evaluated 17 different guidance or guidance-related projects funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act and carried out during the 1970-71 school year throughout the five boroughs of New York City. In general, evaluation procedures included the following: (1) Numerous site visits during observations were made…

Contends that the increasing level of educational attendance among Chicago's immigrant groups (1880-1930) was the result of accommodation to the wage labor system. All immigrant groups developed a positive attitude toward education to ensure the economic welfare of their children. Considers implications of research in terms of adequately…

Data from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Graduating Class of 1972 and the Postsecondary Education Transcript Study are analyzed to confirm or challenge common assumptions about community college students' attendance, transfer, and graduation patterns. (MSE)

Describes a study using two open-ended, in-class surveys to determine the reasons students gave for missing social science classes. The five most important reasons given were "I was sick,""I needed to prepare for a test/assignment in another class,""I was tired/sleepy," and "I overslept." (DMM)

Subjects were assigned to one of three categories: (1) a phone prompt one day before the appointment, (2) a letter prompt one to two days prior, and (3) a no-intervention control group. Both phone and letter prompts produced significantly greater attendance than the no-intervention condition, the phone group slightly higher than the letter. (LHW)