This report summarizes tasks undertaken to assess the feasibility of a longitudinal analysis of elementary and secondary schools. The initial objective was to see if it was technically possible to analyze overlap samples of schools from the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) to produce substantive findings. Over the course of the project various…

Written for students on the threshold or in the early stages of a postgraduate degree, this book introduces the key tools and terminology of research, explains what to do before beginning a postgraduate research project, and suggests ways to arrive at a research question or hypothesis. The discussion also covers the student-supervisor relationship…

The U.S. Department of Education provides a great deal of support to education each year through formula funding (e.g., Title I, Title III services to students) and discretionary grants (e.g., Title III pro-fessional development grants, Safe Schools/Healthy Students projects). However, because evaluations of these projects, and many educational…

Educational research has changed in the last ten years from "a field that was dominated by measurement, operationalized definitions, variables, hypothesis testing, and statistics" to a research mode that emphasizes "description, induction, grounded theory, and the study of people's understanding. We refer to this approach as…

157 Science teachers from 39 schools in Scotland completed a 44-item questionnaire on their perceptions of effective science teaching. (Editor)

Presents a social systems framework for mass communications research and traces the evolution of the model. (TO)

The purpose of the present research was to investigate whether people in fact encode general terms on the basis of the properties of particular instances. (Author)

An interdisciplinary, in-depth study involving 40 children and nine families was conducted among Canadian Indians in order to learn their attitudes toward education. (Author/RK)

Article also appeared in "International Journal of the Sociology of Language," n1. (DD)

See related article by Delores Kessler Kennedy and Paul Weener, CS 705 857. (RB)

See related article by James L. Wardrop and Diane L. Essex, CS 705 856. (RB)

Discusses the necessity of a logical conceptual basis for research, the desirability of using multivariate designs and statistical analysis for educational data, and the need for training English education graduate students in statistics and design. (RB)

Research supported by a grant from the Public Health Service, National Institute of Mental Health. (DD)

This paper is concerned with the effects of test settings on the evaluation process. (Author)

This study explored the possibility of using musicality and intelligence test scores to predict the potential success of pupils in choir instead of the usual methods of audition and observation. It also ivestigated the extent, if any, of teacher bias in the evaluation of pupil achievement. (Author/RK)