About 3,000 students in grades 3, 7, and 11 were assessed for fitness, motor ability, knowledge and understanding of physical activity, and participation and attitudes toward physical acitivity. Over 2,200 physical education teachers and 1,300 administrators completed questionnaires on instructional practices and program assessment. Results…

Part of a 13-volume series designed to help Lutheran communities assess the feasibility of starting a Lutheran elementary school and to assist ongoing schools in current operation, this volume focuses on legal requirements affecting Lutheran schools. The first part deals with Lutheran schools under law and begins by touching on parental rights and…

Project DELTA (Design for Equity: Leadership, Training, Attitudes) at Wichita State University was funded by the Women's Educational Equity Act to develop an exportable model for enhancing the entry of women into, and the advancement of women within, leadership and decision-making roles in higher education. The project employed a capacity-building…

This paper presents a study of the effects of "typical" infant day care on children's behavior and development. The variables studied include center versus home programs, length of time in day care, age of child and sex of child. Subjects for the study were 114 boys and girls (ranging in age from 12 to 36 months) enrolled in either a day…

Comprehensive data on the age grouo and sex of students attending the State University of New York are presented. Twenty-two statistical tables contain summary data for the entire system and each institutional type within the system. Seventy-seven tables contain headcount arrays of students by age group, sex, graduate and undergraduate enrollment…

The document examines aspects of human diversity and their implications for educational research, design, and management. The objective is to foster and create more effective and equal education by better understanding the relationship between personal attributes and educational environment. The material is presented in 15 chapters. Chapter I…

A comparative study of on-campus and off-campus credit courses at Northern Illinois University during 1975, based on the perceptions of selected faculty members who taught the same course on- and off-campus and students enrolled in the courses, is described. The study attempted to determine if differences in perception were related to age,…

The validity, reliability, and item characteristics of the Maine Real Estate Licensure Examination were investigated. Its validity was based on its construction; a task analysis was performed on real estate broker and salesperson jobs, items were written by trained personnel; and the test was reviewed by a panel of experts. Differences in scores…

REPORTED ARE TWO SEPARATE STUDIES WHICH RELATE THE INTERACTION BETWEEN PARENT AND CHILD TO THE CHILD'S SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS OWN ACTIONS. IN THE FIRST STUDY 23 BOYS AND 18 GIRLS, 7 TO 12.5 YEARS OLD, WERE TESTED ON AN ACHIEVEMENT RESPONSIBILITY SCALE TO DETERMINE WHETHER THEY JUDGED THEIR SUCCESS OR FAILURE TO BE CAUSED BY SELF-EFFORT OR…

In 1963, the Washington, D.C. Public School Department began a special demonstration project on the secondary school level, the Webster Girls School Program, to reduce the number of dropouts due to pregnancy and recidivism. An interagency, multidisciplinary plan was devised to provide comprehensive services to the girls. Social case work, academic…

A research project attempted to identify and classify productive thought processes of gifted junior high school students and their teachers. Subjects were 176 gifted high achieving students of both sexes with a verbal IQ range of 127.21 to 136.35, a nonverbal IQ range of 122.88 to 134.59, and a chronological age range of 12.50 to 14.63 years. The…

Papers and presentations on physical education and recreation for the mentally retarded consider programs in Norway, the importance of physical activity, the physical educator as a member of the special education team, and the team approach in programing. The following are also treated: recreation and day care for the severely retarded in a…

Using the U.S. Census definition of poverty, an attempt was made to determine: how many poverty level South Dakota families there were in 1970 and where they resided; the socioeconomic factors explaining county differences in poverty incomes; whether those factors explaining poverty incidence would correlate with county differences in the extent…

The objective of this study was to examine the attitudes of elementary school children toward school and subject matters as they related to such factors as sex and grade level. A two-instrument battery, the Affective Reporting System, was administered to 2,846 elementary school children. Results indicated a general decline in attitude toward…

Pennsylvania's Educational Quality Assessment Program (EQA) provides a school building assessment on each of the ten state adopted goals for quality education. Various teacher attitudes and usage of innovative classroom practices with respect to a series of control variables such as sex, educational level, experience, grade level and community…