The social-class, ethnic, and racial differences in performance on tests of intelligence and scholastic achievement are discussed. Significant deficiencies exist in the means of lower-class and certain racial groups for many measures of ability, motivation, and performance. Composite attempts to estimate the proportion of phenotypic variance in IQ…

Progress made to date in efforts to lay the groundwork for establishing meaningful and on-going procedures for the assessment of the performance of educational systems in New York is reported. The need for educational performance indicators is that indicators would provide a series of measures to show how well educational systems are performing,…

Using data from a national random sample of 16,685 high school seniors collected in 1972, 10 different grade average reporting systems were analyzed by means of a nonlinear least squares procedure. A grade conversion table was created by relating reported grade averages in all of the systems to common percentile ranks in class. It was suggested…

Grades of 116 law school students were obtained from transcripts, along with LSAT, Writing Ability and Background scores. The grades were factored, and an analysis of the goodness of fit of one- through four-factor systems indicated that the system of grades was essentially one factor in nature. A plot of factor loadings for the various courses…

The purpose of this study was to establish score equivalencies between the College Board Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and its Spanish language equivalent, the College Board Prueba de Aptitud Academica (PAA). For the first phase, two sets of items, one originally appearing in Spanish and the other in English, were chosen; and each set was…

Robertson, Davidson, and Sumner counties, Tennessee, were studied to determine the present 4-H organizational leadership situation and to find solutions to whatever problems they have. It was concluded that the following was needed in each county: (1) more organizational leaders--a minimum of one per club; (2) definitions of leader role in terms…

A survey, commissioned by the Alberta College Commission as part of its master planning project, was conducted to identify existing programs, services, and enrollments in post-secondary, non-university and continuing education in the province. A survey instrument was sent to all licensed trade and business schools, adult education centers, private…

The objective of the study was to predict potential procrastinators in a self-pacing instructional system. Seventy-five entering college freshmen were randomly selected to participate in a large scale individually-paced program. Those students (25) who procrastinated were classified as "no-start-procrastinators" (NSP); the remainder (52) were…

Results obtained from a questionnaire sent to 152 community colleges in 7 states (California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Texas, and Washington), of which 90 replies contained useable data, concerning various possible sources of funding for community services are provided. These results include the following: (1) private sources are…

Social unrest and an increasing demand for trained manpower are major reasons for the development of compensatory education programs at all levels of formal education and for the recent significant increase in the number of two-year colleges. There is an increasing awareness among culturally different (disadvantaged) groups that they have not had…

This report summarizes Head Start experience with the health education curriculum guide "Healthy, That's Me" in the first four months of 1972. Information was collected from regional office staff and from Head Start directors, nurses, teachers, teacher aides, and teacher trainers. Teacher and staff reaction to the guide, the training…

The evaluation of the Conceptual Skills Program, a curriculum program for the kindergarten, and teacher implementation of the program are reported. The evaluation was comprised of three components. The first, an estimate of student achievement, relied mostly on the comparison of the performance of program objectives of kindergarten classes in 12…

The sequence that the decisions of school management follow is discussed. This sequence follows four major steps: procedural, continuance, dissemination, and reallocation. Each of these steps is directly related to: (1) planned instructional activities, (2) on-going program and administrative practices, and (3) overlapping conditions between newly…

An exact multivariate analysis for troublesome repeated measures designs has been described by Bock and programmed by Finn. The method is applied to digit span from an actual experiment involving first-grade pupils in an inner-city school and a suburban school in Canada. The repeated measures are first transformed by an orthogonal matrix derived…

This informal report contains the findings and recommendations resulting from the field test of the Hooke Unit of the "Individualized Science" program. Data were collected from three schools. Because of an unusual number of weaknesses ranging from formal inconsistencies to manipulative deficiencies, it was concluded that the Hooke Unit is somewhat…