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Foundation for Change, Inc., New York, NY. – 1975
Salient facts about white control and minority oppression are provided for major areas such as the economy, health, housing, education, the media, government, and the census. Economic data on white control cover topics such as wealth, the stock exchange, businesses, banks, union control and membership, and others. Data per training to minority…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Controlled Environment, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Scientific Educational Systems, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. – 1970
The Joint Federal/State Task Force on Evaluation (the Belmont Group) is currently developing a Joint Comprehensive Evaluation System (JCES) for the federally funded programs under the federal acts listed above. It is planned that JCES will replace the multiplicity of evaluation systems (and paper work) under the separate existing programs. This…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria
Austin, Neale W.; Clark, John L.D. – 1969
A College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB)-sponsored survey presents data derived from the questionnaire responses of a representative sample of 5,382 secondary school seniors who took the CEEB French, Spanish, or German achievement tests during the 1965-66 academic year. Written analyses of questionnaire data, along with many supporting graphs…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Charts, Data Analysis, Educational Background
Roberts, Karlene H. – 1969
In order to make policy decisions, educators must evaluate educational research proposals and projects. Findings immediately related to practice are often inadequate, omitting the theoretical establishment of principles by which we can explain and predict the phenomena of our world. These theoretical linkages to the practical world of…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Control Groups, Data Analysis, Decision Making Skills
Neyman, Clinton A., Jr. – 1969
This report continues the evaluation of Title I (ESEA 1965, PL 89-10) programs and services in the District of Columbia. Four areas of concern were: The effects of Title I funds on (a) student performance, (b) dropout rates; and the most effective programs in terms of (c) measurable pupil gains, and (d) most gain per dollar spent. Teacher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Compensatory Education, Cost Effectiveness
Steward, Margaret S. – 1971
This project was designed to study the process of parents teaching preschool age children using a direct observational method. Six mothers and their own three-year-old sons from seven ethnic groups participated: middle-class Anglo, lower-class Anglo, English-speaking Mexican-American, bilingual Mexican-American; Spanish-Speaking Mexican-American,…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, Chinese
Crooks, Lois A., Ed. – 1972
This invitational conference was convened to report the principal findings of a six-year study of possible sources of bias in the prediction of job performance. The research was conducted jointly by Educational Testing Service and the U.S. Civil Service Commission, supported by the Ford Foundation. Data were gathered on test and job performance of…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Conference Reports, Correlation, Criterion Referenced Tests
Barclay, James R.; And Others – 1972
The purpose of this study is to report a behavioral observation validation of a multiple social interaction measurement instrument entitled the "Barclay Classroom Climate Inventory." This instrument measures social interaction in the elementary classroom as derived from self-report, peer judgments and teacher expectations. It provides an…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales
National Advisory Council for Career Education, Washington, DC. – 1976
Four studies compiled in this document cover career awareness, academic achievement, career decision-making, and other ways of assessing effectiveness. Each area is developed through (1) literature reviews, (2) input gathered from state coordinators of career education and from local practitioners, and (3) reported data which represents…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Awareness, Career Education, Data Analysis
Fishburne, Robert Purdy, Jr. – 1971
Pupil learning about evolution under different types of instruction is examined. A branching style program in which written responses were required was compared with a program in which the same material was presented in straight narrative style. The project compiled and analyzed test results from 115 fifth-grade students. The students were divided…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Cognitive Measurement, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis
National Inst. of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1976
This interim report, the first of three requested by Congress from NIE, is in response to Congress' instructions to NIE via the 1974 ESEA amendments to (1) conduct a study of compensatory education programs which would examine the fundamental purposes and effectiveness of the programs, (2) analyze ways of identifying children in greatest need of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Boards of Education, Compensatory Education, Cost Effectiveness
Eberts, Randall W. – Employment Research, 2001
In January 1998-March 2000, a new statistical assessment and referral system to improve the job retention of welfare recipients participating in welfare-to-work programs was piloted in the welfare-to-work program serving two counties in southwestern Michigan. The assessment and referral system is based on statistical methods and uses…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Data Analysis, Decision Making, Demonstration Programs
Walpole, MaryBeth; Noeth, Richard J. – ACT, Inc., 2002
Efforts focused on improving quality processes based upon the Malcolm Baldrige Education Criteria for Performance Excellence may hold promise for fundamentally improving K-12 education. This policy report examines the information available on improving school quality through implementation of the Baldrige criteria. It provides a snapshot of what…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Total Quality Management, Criteria, Researchers
Mitchell, Laura; Livingstone, D. W. – 2002
The informal learning practices of bank branch workers were examined in a study of a major Canadian bank. The study included ethnographic fieldwork and secondary analysis of a national survey of branch workers' learning practices during the introduction of a new financial services software system. Activity theory was used to examine workers'…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Education, Banking, Data Analysis
Levesque, Karen – 2003
Patterns and trends in the vocational-technical course taking of public high school graduates between 1982 and 1998 were examined in a study of high school transcripts for the graduating classes of 1982, 1990, 1992, 1994, and 1998. The source data came from the following five studies: (1) High School and Beyond Sophomore Cohort, First Follow-up…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Records, Course Selection (Students), Data Analysis
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