Three measures of desegregation are examined in this article. The first measure examined, the dissimilarity index, is based on the absolute deviation of the racial composition of a school from that of the school district. The second measure is referred to as the segregation index and is based on the squared deviation. The third measure…

The problem of the study was to compare the relationship of the grade contract and traditional grading methods to changes in knowledge and attitude during a venereal disease instructional unit. (Author)

This article presented some of the issues related to the professional responsibility and ethical conduct of consultant-evaluators of the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education. (Editor/RK)

A Bayesian Model II approach to the estimation of proportions in m groups is extended to obtain posterior marginal distributions for the proportions. The approach is extended to allow greater use of prior information than previously and the specification of this prior information is discussed. (Author/RC)

The purpose of this study was to establish a theoretical framework for Stevens' empirically derived power law. Three models were proposed to explain the power law. (Editor)

Major interest is the derivation of a mathematical formulation and a demonstration of the effects of pooling two subgroups on the total group correlation coefficient, and additionally, a procedure to guide the decision concerning the pooling of data for the purpose of calculating a single correlation coefficient. (Author/RC)

Ambiguous pictures that could be seen as faces or as meaningless patterns were the stimuli in two recognition-memory experiments. Recognition was far more accurate when the stimuli were seen as faces. (Editor)

Whereas Martin (1973) examined item effects for individual subjects as indicators of their idiosyncratic organization of the middle of a lengthy, constant sequence of unrelated nouns, the present study examined the constancy of item effects across groups of subjects learning a short list of moderately difficult CVCs. (Author/RK)

This study investigated the validity of measures of teacher brinkmanship behaviors. These are behaviors which challenge the authority system of the school while avoiding its negative sanctions. These acts are generally satirical in nature. The subjects were teachers and principals representing schools located in a metropolitan school system in the…

The multivariate analysis of variance approach to the analysis of data from repeated measures designs that include covariates is reviewed and contrasted with univariate methods. Assumptions necessary for meaningful interpretation of the results of the multivariate analysis are discussed and contrasted to those of the univariate approaches. An…

A SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS TO BE PERFORMED WITH SMALL APPARATUS BY STUDENTS IS PRESENTED. PREPARATION OF DATA SHEETS AND ANALYSIS OF FINDINGS ARE ENCOURAGED. IN THE CATEGORY OF MATTER AND MOLECULES, THE CONCEPT TO BE DEVELOPED IS THE DETERMINATION OF WHETHER THERE ARE EMPTY SPACES IN AIR AND IN LIQUIDS. EXPERIMENTS WITH INERTIA, THE LAW OF SPRINGS,…

THOUGH EXTENSIVE RESEARCH TAKES PLACE IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM, THAT RESEARCH IS NOT BEING USED DUE TO TOO MUCH EMPHASIS ON PROGRAM SUCCESS AND TOO LITTLE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE RESEARCHER AND THE SCHOOL STAFF. IN AN EFFORT TO RECTIFY THE SITUATION, THE COOPERATIVE PROJECT IN EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (COPED) INITIATED A STUDY OF THE PROCESS OF…

AN EMPIRICAL STUDY WAS MADE OF THE ERROR FACTORS IN MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING (MDS) TO REFINE THE USE OF MDS FOR MORE EXPERT MANIPULATION OF SCALES USED IN EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT. THE PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH WAS TO GENERATE TABLES OF THE SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS THAT ARE NECESSARY FOR DISCRIMINATING BETWEEN ERROR AND NONERROR MDS DIMENSIONS. THE…

The purpose of this paper is to encourage persons concerned with violence and vandalism in schools to take a more critical look at school-crime statistics and reports and their data-gathering methods. It makes two points. First, writings on or about student crime and violence may be misleading because of certain errors in quantifiable data, such…

SNAP/SHOT (System Network Analysis Program-Simulated Host Overview Technique) is a discrete simulation of a network and/or host model available through IBM at the Raleigh System Center. The simulator provides an analysis of a total IBM Communications System. Input data must be obtained from RMF, SMF, and the CICS Analyzer to determine the existing…