With the primary goal to enhance the degree of cooperativeness between CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) and vocational education in Pennsylvania, CETA "prime sponsor" staffs were surveyed in a study to determine (1) general staff background and information; (2) types of educational and noneducation experiences; (3)…

Due to increased dissatisfaction with Media Services, the evaluation department of Eugene School District 4J was asked to look into the centralized ordering and processing of library materials and textbooks. Areas of complaint included time lags in receiving books, loss of control of ordering and processing at the school level, and processing…

Extensive data are presented about students attending public institutions of higher education in Ohio. Data are included on racial/ethnic characteristics for the first time, and some institutions do not report student marital status. Information is presented separately for the main four-year campuses and for two-year centers, which include…

Information is presented on National Association of State Scholarship and Grant Programs (NASSGP), based on a 1978-79 academic year survey. These are state or territory funded scholarship/grant programs for undergraduate students with financial need. The contents include: historical data; summary data of programs by public and private sectors;…

The relationship between attrition and choice of major was studied at Western Illinois University. A secondary purpose was to determine whether measures of accademic ability, as well as curricular choice, will provide a basis for determining if attrition is likely to occur. Entering freshmen in the summer and fall terms of 1974, 1975, and 1976…

Changes in higher education employee benefit plans brought about by the extension of the mandatory retirement age to 70 are the focus of the monograph. Chapter one summarizes the volume and presents some major recommendations that institutions may find helpful in benefit and personnel planning. Chapter two sketches the meaning of the new law (1978…

A SURVEY OF SCHOOL DROPOUTS IN 11 EASTERN KENTUCKY COUNTIES WAS DESIGNED TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS--(1) TO WHAT EXTENT IS THE RURAL SCHOOL DROPOUT DISADVANTAGED IN COMPARISON WITH THE RURAL HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE7 (2) IS GRADUATION FROM HIGH SCHOOL AN ADVANTAGE IF THE YOUTH REMAINS IN A RURAL AREA7 (3) IS IT AN ADVANTAGE IF HE MOVES TO AN…

IN AN ATTEMPT TO LEARN WHETHER THE HUMAN RELATIONS EMPHASIS IN A SERIES OF STUDY GROUPS INFLUENCED THE OPINIONS OF FARM OPERATOR PARTICIPANTS CONCERNING FARM LABOR, 61 OPERATORS WERE PRETESTED AND POSTTESTED WITH A 37 ITEM TEST ON WORK INCENTIVES AND MOTIVATION, PERCEPTION AND ATTITUDES, SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFITS, AND MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS AND…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS RESEARCH INVESTIGATION WAS TO DETERMINE THE APPROPRIATENESS OF CURRENT AVIATION STRUCTURAL MECHANIC S (STRUCTURES) SCHOOL, CLASS A, TRAINING FOR MENTAL GROUP IV PERSONNEL. THIS TRAINING CONSISTS OF A SEQUENCE OF THREE COURSES. IT WAS FOUND THAT 50 PERCENT OF THE GROUP IV STUDENTS WOULD HAVE BEEN DROPPED FROM TRAINING PRIOR TO…

The first in a series of 4 studies based on data collected from 1,844 high school students in Canada, this study examined eleventh and twelfth grade students from 2 rural Manitoba sample areas and from 2 large suburban high schools in metropolitan Winnipeg. This study focused on the educational and occupational aspiration levels and 10 selected…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO SECURE INFORMATION FROM MOTHERS OF JUNIOR HIGH AND HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS AS TO WHAT CLASSES SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN THE UPSHUR COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA, ADULT HOMEMAKING PROGRAM. THE QUESTIONNAIRE DREW REPLIES FROM 457 (35 PEPERCENT) OF THOSE CONTACTED. RESPONSES SHOWED A GENERAL INTEREST THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY IN ATTENDING…

This analysis of the Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) In-School Enrollee was based on a probability sampling of all the nation's youths enrolled in the program. 3,618 were studied. A comparative group of 1,143 similar line poverty youngsters in the same schools, but not in the Neighborhood Youth Corps, were also analyzed in areas where parallelisms…

The magnitude of the dropout problem among Indians was illustrated by a study which followed students registered in grade 8 as of November 1962 through June 1967. Statistics were gathered by area, state, type of school, tribal group, and majority-minority position of Indian students in the 6-state area of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, South…

In this survey of adults randomly chosen from the October 1967 voters' list for the City of Guelph, Ontario, information was gathered in individual and socioeconomic characteristics (including age, sex, marital and family status, income, education, occupation, and ethnic background); attitudes toward Guelph as a place to live and toward existing…

This annotated bibliography dealing with training and retraining of adults and out of school youth, is the second joint publication of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult Education, and the Adult Education Clearinghouse of the National Association for Public School Adult Education. It contains 36 indexed and abstracted entries, dated 1965-1968, and…