Studies of teacher rating form (TRF) generalizability have focused primarily on two classes of variables: student characteristics and teacher characteristics. Since the goal of most TRF researchers is to show that TRF scores correlate with teacher-produced student achievement, a suitable generalizability study would investigate the relationship…

Lane Transit District (LTD) sponsored three surveys in an attempt to understand the needs of physically handicapped and elderly persons and to recommend appropriate operational and physical changes within the system to meet these needs. The secondary intent of the study was to bring about public awareness of the mobility problems of the physically…

This thesis reviews activities of a study to develop a systematized course for teaching advanced typewriting on an individual basis to part-time adult students. The introduction presents a rationale for the study and section 1 presents the purpose of the study and definition of terms. Section 2 describes the data gathering procedures, and section…

The purpose of the project reported here involving six high schools and one community college in California was to implement and evaluate consumer education curriculum models comprised of instructional modules developed by teachers in each of the participating schools. After presenting a brief overview of the project, this report describes the…

Both administratively and in terms of their evaluations, Head Start and Follow Through have been treated as separate programs. Follow Through was initially conceived, however, as an effort to preserve and augment Head Start gains. In this report, achievement test data on a set of children who participated in both Head Start and Follow Through are…

Unlike the past models guiding cross-cultural psychological research, a new paradigm facilitates multiple level investigations by incorporating both culture-specific (nested) and culture-general (crossed) independent variables within its partially-hierarchical framework. Based upon the generalizability analysis, this model generates sequential…

This handbook is intended as a guide for engineers, architects, and individuals familiar with heating and ventilating applications who wish to design a solar heating system for a residential or small commercial building in the Pacific Coast Region. The climate of the region is discussed by selected cities in terms of the effect of climate on solar…

This document is intended as a resource guide for institutional researchers, based on the experience of the Johnson County Community College (Kansas) Institutional Research Office. It includes pragmatic suggestions concerning research design and research problems which are incorporated into discussions of research questions, reporting data,…

An argument is made against the use of school averages as composition measures by documenting the non-random nature of peer associations and by presenting evidence that different students are influenced by different reference groups. The structure of friendship associations among some 20,000 students in the McDill Twenty High School Sample is…

This report evaluated a teacher education program designed to improve the quality of instruction for low income students in New York City. A major goal of the program was to increase student reading and English fluency skills. Teachers for the program were trained on college campuses. Each participating school designed its training program to suit…

This paper presents a discussion of issues raised in the evaluation of Project Follow Through reported by Abt Associates. The paper suggests that many of the problems inherent in the design of both the program and the evaluation stem from the underlying assumption that one educational model could be found which would best alleviate the educational…

This paper discusses some of the issues involved in determining policies and standards for day care services for children. The paper raises questions concerning both the definition of quality child care and the problems involved in implementing quality standards at the level of policy formation and in the centers and day care homes themselves.…

A conceptual framework and a unique data collection technique are proposed as a means for studying the relationship between cognitive structure and political awareness in children. Most researchers have dealt with cognitive development and political socialization research by examining children in different grade levels at one point in time.…

Eight basic components of instructional programs for severely handicapped students are discussed. Components are seen to involve determination of content, rationale, method, materials, measurement and student performance. Emphasized is the need for a task analysis orientation to determine content and for developmentally sound longitudinal…

The manual provides a checklist for administrators responsible for developing, implementing, and evaluating an Adult English as a Second Language Program. The checklist consists of four sections: philosophy, administration and organization, program development and operation, and program impact. For each section there is a series of specific…