This article describes in detail the design, testing, and implementation of an automated system to gather, process, and analyze followup data from occupational education programs in formats usable by local vocational administrators, to satisfy State and Federal accountability requirements and to assist State and local school personnel in…

Results of cross-tabulations and of the regression analysis seem to indicate that attitudes toward the familial institution are related most directly to the nature of the interaction between parents and children in the latter's family of orientation. (Author)

An examination of the contribution of pupils' ethnic group membership to the prediction of scholastic achievement by means of a battery of diverse psychological tests and background information in a large sample of children from three ethnic troups in a California school district is reported. (Author/KM)

An examination of teachers' preferences and performances contribute to determining what competencies teachers feel are necessary to the effective social studies teacher. (Author/KM)

This study concentrated on the principal-student communications process with an examination of a number of important variables related to communications. (Author/RK)

Research supported by the Science Research Council. (DD)

To determine the effect of chronic marihuana smoking on cognitive functions, personality traits, and social values, a group of heavy marihuana smokers was compared with a matched control group. (Author)

The effects of perceptual pretraining on preferences and concept identification performance in five- and eight-year-old Ss were investigated.

Nine-, eleven-, and thirteen-year-old children participated in a conformity situation requiring the judgment of the louder of two successively presented tones. (Editor)

A major problem in most predictions of school enrollment is the forecaster's failure to express adequately his certainty or uncertainty in his estimates. Describes a method whereby a forecaster can prepare probability distributions of enrollment predictions. The Monte Carlo computer simulation calculates enrollments by the multivariable method,…

The problem of this investigation was to ascertain the relative effects of two teaching strategies, discovery and expository (telling), on the learning of economic concepts by first grade students, as measured by a criterion test instrument. (Author)

The reliabilities and validities of true-false and forced-choice formats in personality assessment were compared. (Author)

Analyzes the effect recordkeeping has when it is designed to assess children's problem-solving and thinking processes over time. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this study was to determine what influence the less frequent meetings of classes for music instruction had on the attitudinal growth patterns of the students toward their school music experiences. (Author)