This report provides an in-depth description of the research and findings reported more briefly in the final report. Included in this report are descriptions of research to study the causes of rising enrollment of women in engineering undergraduate programs. Methods for encouraging expanded enrollment of women in such programs are examined.…

This manual introduces undergraduate students in political science to major types of data and methods for cross-national quantitative analysis. The manual's topic, Conditions for Effective Democracy, was chosen because it incorporates several different kinds of data and illustrates various methodological problems. The data are cross-sectional…

The purpose of this report by the staff of Management Implications of Team Teaching (MITT) was to explain the use of unit-level analysis to get a more exact characterization of the general innovative phenomena previously observed in unitized schools. The report examines three central variables that describe involvement of the teaching staff in the…

Use of client records and census data as a research methodology can provide mental health planners with information on community needs as well as the adequacy of existing programs. Three ways of analyzing client records in conjunction with census data are: (1) tract by tract, comparing client geographic distribution with census characteristics;…

This self-instruction manual, developed for use in the 1967 National Research Training Institute for Participants in Consortium Research Development (CORD) projects, is designed to provide the user with basic information needed to (1) plan and produce an improved instructional system and (2) plan and conduct research related to instruction. It was…

This handbook was designed to assist economists and statisticians in the economically developing countries in initiating and conducting studies for determining future manpower requirements in relation to anticipated development. It outlines a method of estimating future manpower requirements by occupation and industry and future training…

This third volume of the Comparative Systems Laboratory (CSL) Final Technical Report is a collection of relatively independent studies performed on CSL materials. Covered in this document are studies on: (1) properties of files, including a study of the growth rate of a dictionary of index terms as influenced by number of documents in the file and…

A study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the 1966-67 Title I inservice teacher training programs in changing teacher attitudes. Data were obtained from an experimental group of teachers, instructional leaders, and consultants in the Greater Southwest. The aims of the evaluation were (1) to measure changes in the semantic-differential…

Of the approximately 40 languages in Uganda, some are very similar to one another and may be to some extent mutually intelligible. Because no one knows how to measure degrees of mutual intelligibility, the authors are attempting to establish reliable techniques which would be not only of practical value for the study of language problems in…

The evaluation of 'deviant articulation' (that of young children, speech defective persons, aphasics, second-language learners) has usually consisted of two activities: transcription of the speech being evaluated, and comparison of the transcription against some 'standard' set of 'target' sounds. Any transcription is a description of a speaker's…

The modular administrative structure implemented at Grand Valley State Colleges in 1973 is described as a system in which administrative affairs are divided into functional self-contained units called modules, each of which has a head or acting head who is responsible for the management of the functions contained within the module. A long-range…

Data are used from the individualized math component of an operating educational system to validate the basic assumptions underlying EDSIM 1, a computer simulation model that traces the interaction of three probabilistic elements in an educational program and produces synthetic output regarding this interaction in terms of student time in the…

Multidimensional scaling was applied to the assessment of qualitative data relating to an optometry faculty's perceptions of instructional media. Results indicate that 35mm slides, overhead transparencies, and filmstrips were viewed as serving a similar function and as acceptable in terms of cost, need, and convenience. Television and 16mm films…

This report on model implementation during the third year (1971-72) of the Head Start Planned Variation experiment concentrates on the development of measures of implementation. Measures are examined individually in terms of design and use, strengths and weaknesses, and findings obtained, and agreement among raters on the extent of implementation…

The study was designed to develop a model for the collection and analysis of cost data for defining the cost per pupil per program per type of school (area vocational or comprehensive). An advisory committee of New Jersey State Department of Education personnel and vocational educators was selected to provide unbiased input. The selected programs…