This report on rules affecting the eligibility of the mentally retarded for interscholastic athletics uses as its source of information a survey of state high school athletic or activity associations. Excerpts from the replies are interspersed throughout the report which, in essay form, describes the overall rules and attitudes of these…

The admissions process in graduate education is heavily criticized for poor recruitment procedures and the use of criteria unrelated to academic success. This review examines the factors related to student enrollment in graduate programs, the policies and procedures followed by graduate departments, and draws some implications for the improvement…

The objectives and dimensions of this analysis system are described in SO 000 835. However, this document contains the actual instrument which was designed to provide a method of analyzing autotelic educational material such as games and simulations. It was created for curriculum supervisors, chairmen, and teachers who make curriculum decisions,…

The Helicopter Pilot Training Program of the Army differs from those of the other services in concept. It takes nonpilot servicemen and trains them to fly helicopters. The study provides normative performance data for a pilot trainee in an army light-observation helicopter as a first step toward establishing normative data for pilot performance in…

Both students and society have similar interests in higher education. It is valued by students as the key to lucrative and desirable careers and society needs trained personnel. Secondly, a college education can provide aesthetic and intangible experiences and society needs an enlightened and culturally concerned citizenry. The primary interest of…

A sample of 2,290 airmen who were eligible for promotion to grades E-4 through E-7 was used to field-test the proposed weighted Airman Promotion System. Data included scores on the Specialty Knowledge Test and the Promotion Fitness Examination, points credited for time in grade, time in service, decorations, and Airman Performance Report mean…

In order to organize research on minority programs, particularly the Spanish speaking, the possible differences in attitudes and opinions of the mainstream and Spanish speaking clienteles have to be considered. Mainstream clienteles tend to assume that public administration of new programs is characterized by a normal process of growth,…

This document updates a 1969 circular (ED 033 448) taking a new survey during the summer and fall of 1971. A questionnaire (included in the document) was sent to all school systems enrolling 25,000 or more pupils. The summary data are based on the responses of 110 school systems having teacher evaluation programs which they did not plan to revise…

A correlation coefficient should not be regarded as a judgment; it is only a number summarizing the relationship of two sets of facts to each other. A coefficient's size is important, but the reason for its size is more important. A coefficient should be regarded as a clue to further investigation, which should include the test, the criterion…

This document reports the activities of the 1971 Canadian Teachers' Federation (CTF) conference on teacher certification. The conference explored the bases for reciprocity and simplification of evaluation procedures. This report covers the conference proceeding including the opening remarks, recommendations of the 1970 CTF conference on teacher…

All graphic reproduction processes are a means of communication. The purpose of this study was to identify and classify common elements of graphic communication technology into a structure representing the various industrial techniques. Six graphic reproduction processes were identified as relief, intaglio, planography, screen process,…

Historical and realistic bases account for hostility to the concept of evaluation on the part of nursery school teachers. The nursery school is primarily a middle-class institution and as such does not attempt to provide an intellectually stimulating environment, since that is already available at home. Other sources of opposition to evaluation…

The APA Ethical Principles, the University of Georgia policy, standard research texts, and research literature on specific methodologies, all in relation to ethical issues in human research, are discussed. The 10 APA principles state, in essence, that the investigator is responsible for what happens, that confidentiality and the protection of the…

The evaluation of an educational program by portrayal of the program rather than the focus of the program is discussed. It is suggested that the program evaluator limit his evaluation aims to what he can do and to what the client needs most. It is believed that the first duty of the evaluator should be to offer the client a comprehensive portrayal…

As an extension of ideas suggested in an earlier paper which proposed a project control system for Indiana University's Audio-Visual Center (see EM 010 306), this paper examines the establishment of project legitimacy and priority within the system and reviews the need to stimulate specific research proposals as well as generating a matrix of…