It was the purpose of this study to examine various multiple elective programs in English in schools across the nation to record significant elements and draw generalizations from the data. The information includes a survey of 81 schools and detailed study of curriculum guides and other information from 38 schools. Concentration of the study was…

Secondary evaluations, in which an investigator takes a body of evaluation data collected by a primary evaluation researcher and examines the data to see if the original conclusions about the program correspond with his own, are discussed. The different kinds of secondary evaluations and the advantages and disadvantages of each are pointed out,…

This report describes two systems designed to improve teaching competencies and to develop higher level thinking abilities, and presents the evaluation design, statistical results, and a brief history of the major events which occurred during development. The McCollum-Davis Model is designed to develop understanding of and skill in relating a…

This report provides information and data to school decision-makers, emphasing the identification of promising practices, major contributions of personnel, and weaknesses of the Follow Through program in Atlanta. Much o f the information presented is in a question-answer format and is based on both hard and soft data. Suggestions for improving the…

Information theory was used to qualify the difficulty of verbal discrimination (VD) learning tasks and to measure VD performance. Words for VD items were selected with high background frequency and equal a priori probabilities of being selected as a first response. Three VD lists containing only 2-, 3-, or 4-word items were created and equated for…

In many circumstances it is appropriate to use the school as the unit of analysis. The variables measured on students must be aggregated to form a mean for each school. However, the means derived from the students sampled in a school will tend to fluctuate around the true mean for the school in a way determined by the within-school correlations…

This paper suggests four sources of inconclusive results in studies of school effects: Poor definitions of school context, poor sampling techniques, lack of attention to techniques of partitioning variance, and a lack of awareness of the effects of changing units of analysis on the size of statistical associations. Each problem is briefly…

This descriptive research study had as its major objective the development of a category system through which the teacher's physical motions in relation to his verbal actions could be analyzed with a high degree of reliability. The performances of five elementary teachers at the College Demonstration School were recorded on video tape. Narrative…

This report is one of three publications from the task analysis study of ornamental horticulture conducted at Cornell University. It was designed to develop a procedural model for task analysis in the area of agribusiness. The personal interview method was used to collect data from businesses within nine identified areas of ornamental…

The data for this report concerning enrollment in California community colleges was collected by the National Center for Educational Statistics, Office of Education, United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the fall of 1970. The following data are presented: (1) total number of degree-credit students; (2) resident students…

Results of empirical comparisons of an inferential model of order analysis with factor analytic models were reported for two sets of data. On the prestructured data set both order and factor analytic models returned its dimensions of length, width and height, but on the random data set the factor analytic models indicated the presence of…

Illustrates a simple nonparametric alternative that can be used to test a hypothesis that two proximity matrices on the same set of variables or objects reflect a similar pattern of high and low entries. (RC)

Compares three methods of treating missing data with respect to the results obtained, the informational value of each method, the population to which the results can be referred, and statistical power. (Author)

Compared the results obtained by two traditional designs on the Career Maturity Inventory-Attitude Scale with the effects of an alternative design: constructing a composite longitudinal gradient. The two traditional methodologies yielded different results from each other for males, but not for females. (Author)

This is a critique of an article on the Cambridge Somerville Youth Study. It is noted that although the idea of a 30-year follow-up is good, the experimenter's variables are not strong enough to justify the conclusions drawn. (Author/AM)