Tables present 1977 and 1978 data, collected by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, that trace the progress of Blacks and other minorities in Florida community colleges. Tables 1 through 3D describe student enrollment in terms of college-level headcount as of the end of the drop/add period, recent high school graduates, and acceptance rate (virtually 100% for all races, though the enrollment rate dropped considerably for all races). Tables 4A and 4B summarize financial aid...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Students, Community Colleges, Employment Patterns, Enrollment Trends, Females,...
Using measurements of aurora made by ground and aircraft based photometers and correlated in space and time with DMSP observations, two DMSP night time sensors have been calibrated. A procedure has been developed for computer reduction and analysis of the calibrated DMSP digital tape data. (Author)
Topics: DTIC Archive, Davidson,Gilbert, PHOTOMETRICS INC WOBURN MA, *DATA BASES, *AURORAE, DIGITAL SYSTEMS,...
This Kids Count data book examines trends in the well-being of Oregons children, focusing on child health, nutrition, and child safety. This statistical portrait is based on 17 indicators of child well-being: (1) child care supply; (2) third grade reading proficiency; (3) third grade math proficiency; (4) juvenile arrests; (5) suicide attempts; (6) high school dropouts; (7) eighth grade reading proficiency; (8) eighth grade math proficiency; (9) teen pregnancy; (10) infant mortality; (11) early...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Birth Weight, Child Abuse, Child Health, Child...
This report provides selected results from the 2002 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for California's public-school students at grades 4 and 8. Since 1992, reading has been assessed in four different years at the state level (at grade 4 in 1992 and 1994, and at both grades 4 and 8 in 1998 and 2002). California participated in all of these assessments at grades 4 and 8 and met the criteria for reporting public-school results for both grades. Key findings for grade 4 are: the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Grade 4, Grade 8, Middle Schools,...
This report provides selected results from the 2002 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for the Department of Defense Domestic Dependent Elementary and Secondary Schools' public-school students at grades 4 and 8. Since 1992, reading has been assessed in four different years at the state level (at grade 4 in 1992 and 1994, and at both grades 4 and 8 in 1998 and 2002). The DDESS participated in only the 1998 and 2002 assessments at grades 4 and 8 and met the criteria for reporting...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Grade 4, Grade 8, Middle Schools,...
As the 2002-2003 academic year got underway, many public colleges and universities found themselves wrestling with mid-year state funding reductions, significant enrollment growth, and pressure to hold the line on tuition. With unfunded enrollment mounting and another bleak budget year on the horizon, states and their higher education institutions once again faced the unpleasant reality of increasing student charges. The economic downturn and resulting budget crunches also spell trouble for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Budgeting, Costs, Economic Factors, Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Higher...
This general achievement trends profile includes information that the Center on Education Policy (CEP) and the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) obtained from states from fall 2008 through April 2009. Included herein are: (1) Bullet points summarizing key findings about achievement trends in that state at three performance levels--basic and above, proficient and above, and advanced; (2) Background information about limitations of the state's test data and characteristics of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Educational Legislation,...
This general achievement trends profile includes information that the Center on Education Policy (CEP) and the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) obtained from states from fall 2008 through April 2009. Included herein are: (1) Bullet points summarizing key findings about achievement trends in that state at three performance levels--basic and above, proficient and above, and advanced; (2) Background information about limitations of the state's test data and characteristics of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Educational Legislation,...
This report provides information about the performance of Utah's 2012 graduating seniors who took the ACT as sophomores, juniors, or seniors; and self-reported at the time of testing that they were scheduled to graduate in 2012 and tested under standard time conditions. This report focuses on: (1) Performance: student test performance in the context of college readiness; (2) Access: number of graduates exposed to college entrance testing and the percent of race/ethnicity participation; (3)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Academic Standards, Access to Information,...
This report provides information about the performance of Missouri's 2012 graduating seniors who took the ACT as sophomores, juniors, or seniors; and self-reported at the time of testing that they were scheduled to graduate in 2012 and tested under standard time conditions. This report focuses on: (1) Performance: student test performance in the context of college readiness; (2) Access: number of graduates exposed to college entrance testing and the percent of race/ethnicity participation; (3)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Academic Standards, Access to Information,...
To mark the 25th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, this edition of "The State of the World's Children" calls for brave and fresh thinking to address age-old problems that still affect the world's most disadvantaged children. The report is inspired by the work of innovators around the world--who are pushing boundaries and crafting solutions for local problems that reflect urgent global needs--towards a future in which all children can enjoy their rights. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Children, Disadvantaged Youth, Childrens Rights, World Problems, International Law,...
Northwest Evaluation Association™ (NWEA™) is committed to providing partners with useful tools to help make inferences from the Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP®) interim assessment scores. One important tool is the concordance table between MAP and state summative assessments. Concordance tables have been used for decades to relate scores on different tests measuring similar but distinct constructs. These tables, typically derived from statistical linking procedures, provide a direct...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Scores, Inferences, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Reading Achievement,...
The development of soil conservation districts in Tennessee is the subject of this graduate study. Related literature, existing records, and personal interviews are used to record progress since Tennessee adopted Public Law 46 establishing soil conservation districts in 1939. In 1959 all 95 counties of Tennessee had organized soil conservation districts; continued cooperation of Federal, State, and local agencies is necessary to continue to combat soil erosion. (Author/RS)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conservation Education, Environmental Education, Federal Government, Higher...
In 1990, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) included a Trial State Assessment (TSA); for the first time in NAEP's history, voluntary state-by-state assessments were made. In 1994, TSA was expanded to include non-public school students. The 1994 reading assessment considered students' proficiency in situations that involved reading different kinds of materials for different purposes. The fourth-grade assessment measured two global purposes for reading--reading for literary...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comparative Analysis, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, National Competency Tests,...
A statistical overview is provided of trends in enrollments, student characteristics, and staffing in Washington's community and technical colleges as of fall 1994. The report first examines patterns of enrollments by funding source for full-time equivalent and headcount enrollment, the changing enrollment mix, student purpose of attendance, part- and full-time status, planned length of attendance, and the impact of tuition waivers. Next, the demographics of students served are detailed from...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Faculty, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Enrollment Trends,...
This report provides data on withdrawal and success rates and grades earned in fall 1995 at the five campuses of Pima Community College (PCC) in Arizona. Following a literature review on national course grades, descriptions are provided of the following: (1) grades and withdrawals for 1980, 1985, 1990, and 1995, indicating that the number of A grades has increased from 28% in 1980 to 32% in 1995; (2) a comparison of grades by PCC campus, indicating that the Community Campus awarded the highest...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Outcomes Assessment, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Educational...
Selected facts and figures are provided about education in Alaska in 32 pages of brief tables. Information is provided concerning the 54 public school districts in Alaska where the average daily membership in 1989-90 reached 104,035 students. In most instances, data are presented for a span of years from the 1970's. Selected topics include: teacher certification; numbers of teachers; teacher salaries; the student-teacher ratio; graduates; graduates' post-school plans; achievement test scores;...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, School Districts,...
Intensity ratios, coherence and phase relationships of 10 c/sec EEG among six scalp locations were obtained from 20 subjects during focused attention on visual and auditory decision tasks. The analysis was based on 2 sec epochs immediately preceding subjects' decisions, in which gradually changing stimulus parameters led to a decision, as opposed to the usual sudden onset stimulus presentation. It was assumed that the subjects' attention was maximally focused on the information content of the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Hord,David J, NAVAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER SAN DIEGO CA, *Electroencephalography,...
The programing of educational television is examined through a survey conducted during one week in 1964 of the 88 educational television stations on the air during that week. The data were analyzed separately for three distinguishable audiences of educational television--the school audience, the college-adult education audience, and the general audience--and results are presented under each audience type about broadcast patterns, amount of programing, program sources, and subjects broadcast. An...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Broadcast Industry, Children, College Students, Educational...
This general achievement trends profile includes information that the Center on Education Policy (CEP) and the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) obtained from states from fall 2008 through April 2009. Included herein are: (1) Bullet points summarizing key findings about achievement trends in that state at three performance levels--basic and above, proficient and above, and advanced; (2) Background information about limitations of the state's test data and characteristics of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Educational Legislation,...
This guide, in addition to continuing the cost principles that apply to Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (DHEW) grants and contracts performed at colleges and universities, describes in general terms the process of indirect cost rate determinations and sets forth instructions for the submission of rate proposals by grantees and contractors. Sections contain: (1) information on basic considerations involved in rate determination and on DHEW views and practices; (2) guidelines for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Contracts, Federal Programs, Financial Policy, Fringe Benefits, Grants, Guidelines,...
This paper discusses research findings concerning student discipline problems in Indiana secondary schools. Issues explored attempted to determine (1) what specific student behaviors are perceived by teachers and administrators to be discipline problems, (2) how frequently these problems occur, (3) how serious teachers and administrators perceive the problems to be, and (4) how much the identified discipline problems interfere with the learning environment. Questionnaires were mailed to a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Attitudes, Discipline, Literature Reviews, Secondary Education,...
As the problems of book theft and mutilation of library materials were growing, a survey was conducted by the Periodicals and Reference Departments at the University of Memphis Library (Tennessee) in the spring of 1994. An 11-item questionnaire was distributed to 73 students. Students' attitudes toward the problems, their causes, and means to prevent future occurrence were examined. The findings and implications of the survey are discussed. Three tables of the findings are presented, and the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Books, College Libraries, Crime Prevention, Higher Education, Library Materials,...
In 1998 for the first time, the NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) administered a writing assessment at the state level. This report describes the writing achievement of Nebraska eighth-grade students in nonpublic schools and compares their overall performance to students in the Central region of the United States and the nation (using data from the NAEP national assessments). In Nebraska, 354 students from 21 nonpublic schools were assessed. The writing assessment questions...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comparative Analysis, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, National Competency Tests,...
The most recent trends in student transfer from the California Community Colleges (CCC) to the California State University (CSU) and the University of California (UC) are reviewed in this four-part report. After part 1 describes the purposes and organization of the report, part 2 provides a review of the current status of transfer and articulation in California. Part 3 presents historical data for CCC students who transferred to CSU and UC from fall 1965 through fall 1990, followed by an...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Enrollment Trends, Minority Groups,...
The Ninth Grade Restructuring Program of the Detroit (Michigan) public schools was designed to restructure the ninth grade in ways that improve academic performance, develop positive attitudes toward learning, improve the school environment, reduce the dropout rate, and increase the graduation rate of students. Features of the program were instructional and direct noninstructional services, such as social work services, counseling and psychological services, tutoring by student assistants with...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Dropout Prevention, Grade 9, High School...
The U.S. Census Bureau conducts the Census of Governments and the Annual Surveys of State and Local Government Finances as authorized by law under Title 13, U.S. Code, Sections 161 and 182. The Census of Governments has been conducted every 5 years since 1957, while the annual survey has been conducted annually since 1977 in years when the Census of Governments is not conducted. The 2014 Annual Survey of School System Finances, similar to previous annual surveys and censuses of governments,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Finance, Surveys, Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education,...
This review examines "The Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education" (TOJDE) over a ten years period from 2000-2010. The study provides an opportunity to examine publishing activities such as number of published articles, authors, research topics and methods, and analyses of TOJDE's website such as time users stay on site and user profiles. After a content analysis, the articles are reviewed according to the selected criteria. These data were categorized according to emerging...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Content Analysis, Distance Education, Educational Research,...
The documentation required under the Federal Library Services and Construction Act for the 1993 annual program of the Texas State Library is assembled. Under Title I, Public Library Services to Areas Without Services, the state plans total expenditures of $12,066,877, including $5,019,151 in federal funds and $7,047,726 in state funds for services to areas with inadequate services, the physically handicapped, state institutional library services, and administration. Under Title II, Public...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Disabilities, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Library Cooperation, Library...
National survey data are used to address questions about the centralization and decentralization of decision making about computer use in American schools. Settings in which centralization and decentralization in decisions about computers are greatest are considered. The consequences of alternative decision-making structures are also considered, using data from the U.S. administration of the 1989 International Education Association Computers-in-Education survey involving a national probability...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Attitudes, Centralization, Computer Assisted Instruction,...
An employer needs assessment study was performed at Porterville College (PC), in California in 1991 as part of a comprehensive educational planning process for PC and the surrounding area. A validated survey instrument was sent to a stratified random sampling of 593 employers in the community, asking them to provide general information about their company and to rate the importance to their employment needs of the programs currently being offered at PC and those being considered by the college....
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Planning, Community Colleges, Community Surveys, Demand Occupations,...
The Beginning Postsecondary Students (BPS) study followed a group of students who began their postsecondary education in the 1989-90 academic year. The follow-up in the spring of 1992 explored the persistence and degree attainment of these beginners (approximately 10,600 students). As expected, many initially enrolled for programs of less than 4 years were no longer enrolled, but about two-thirds of beginners in four-year institutions were still enrolled. First-year dropout rates were higher in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Persistence, American Indian Students, Asian American Students, Black...
Adult basic education (ABE) programming efforts in Minnesota for the 1992-93 year were designed to accomplish the following state plan-stipulated goals: (1) continue developing/implementing a statewide ABE delivery system to enable adults (especially disadvantaged adults) with basic skill deficiencies to identify and achieve their personal and occupational goals; (2) continue encouraging development of systems to coordinate and cooperate with all available resources and services that could...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Annual Reports, Basic Skills, Coordination,...
This publication presents statistics that estimate higher education student financial aid for 1992-93 in 12 tables using data from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS). NPSAS is a comprehensive study that is examining how students and their families pay for postsecondary education. It includes nationally representative samples of undergraduates, graduates, and first-professional students, students attending less-than-two-year, two-year, four-year, and doctoral granting...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Students, Graduate Students, Grants, Higher Education, National Surveys,...
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is an enormous and enormously ambitious project. It generates data of a richness and complexity beyond any simple survey. The broad utilization of the information it provides can be aided through the use of more evocative data displays. In this report, the uses to which data tables are put is examined, and ways are suggested in which the construction of tables can be modified to enable them to carry out their roles more efficaciously. A...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Information, Data Analysis, Information Dissemination, Information...
In the summer of 1995, 371 establishments in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, were surveyed regarding their opinions of the quality of the local work force. The purpose of the study was to provide evaluation data for planning and curriculum development at the secondary and post-secondary school levels. Forty-three percent of the employers responded. Among the major study findings were the following: (1) nearly 9 of 10 establishments use informal on-the-job training, and 6 of 10 establishments use...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Counties, Educational Demand, Educational Needs, Educational Opportunities,...
Drawn from college data submitted on 1994-95 actual cost allocation schedules, this report provides information on district and statewide program costs for the Wisconsin Technical College System. A brief introduction reviews actual unit costs and ratios for headcount enrollments and full-time equivalent (FTE) students, indicating that the total unduplicated headcount for the system was 434,780 students, at a cost per headcount student of $1,160, and that FTE enrollment was 59,156 students, at a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Enrollment, Expenditure per...
This report provides enrollment trend information for public four-year colleges and universities for the period fall 1990 through fall 1997. Several trends are highlighted: during this period, total enrollment fell 0.5 percent to 5.77 million students; enrollment of racial/ethnic minorities rose 24.5 percent; white enrollment fell 10.8 percent. The number of men enrolled fell 7.2 percent, while the number of women enrolled fell 0.1 percent. Geographical analysis showed increased enrollment in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks, Chronological Age, Educational Trends,...
This KIDS COUNT data book details statewide trends in the well-being of Maine's children. The statistical portrait is based on a variety of indicators in the areas of: (1) physical and mental health; (2) social and economic opportunity; (3) education and learning; and (4) child health care access. The data book presents state level trend data, a Maine state profile, county-by-county profiles, and a special section addressing harassment and violence in Maine schools. Findings indicate that the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adolescents, Birth Weight, Births to Single Women, Child Abuse, Child Advocacy, Child...
This study, which focused on the 1998-99 school year, addresses dropout rates for individual schools, districts, counties, and the state of Arizona categorized by grade, gender, race/ethnicity, withdrawal type, school-year and summer dropouts, county, and district. The data include actual student enrollment and dropout counts as well as status unknown rates. According to information supplied by local school districts and charter schools, the total statewide student enrollment for academic year...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Dropout Rate, Dropout Research, Enrollment Trends, Public Schools, Secondary...
This document presents statistics and input-output measures for K-12 school libraries in Colorado for 2002. Data are presented by type and size of school, i.e., high schools (six categories ranging from 2,000 and over to under 300), junior high/middle schools (five categories ranging from 1,000-1,999 to under 300), elementary schools (four categories ranging from 700-999 to under 300), and combined schools (four categories ranging from 700-999 to under 300). Information provided for each school...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Information, Benchmarking, Elementary Secondary Education, Internet,...
Monitoring the Future is a long-term program of research being conducted at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research under a series of investigator-initiated research grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Now in its 32nd year, the study is comprised of several ongoing series of annual surveys of nationally representative samples of 8th- and 10th-grade students (begun in 1991), 12th-grade students (begun in 1975), and adults (begun in 1976). As the authors report in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Students, Young Adults, Legislators, Drug Use, National Surveys, High School...
It is of special importance at this time that students in foreign countries who may be seeking educational opportunities in the United States should have accurate information as to what institutions in this country have to offer. For this reason, Dr. Samuel Paul Capen, specialist in higher education in the Bureau of Education was asked to prepare this bulletin in order to: (1) provide information on the organization of American education, with special reference to universities, colleges, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Educational Opportunities, Foreign Countries, Universities,...
This report provides information about the performance of West Virginia's 2016 graduating seniors who took the ACT as sophomores, juniors, or seniors; and self-reported at the time of testing that they were scheduled to graduate in 2016. Beginning with the Graduating Class of 2013, all students whose scores are college reportable, both standard and extended time tests, are now included in the report. This report focuses on: (1) Performance: student test performance in the context of college...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Academic Standards, Achievement Tests,...
This report provides information about the performance of New York's 2016 graduating seniors who took the ACT as sophomores, juniors, or seniors; and self-reported at the time of testing that they were scheduled to graduate in 2016. Beginning with the Graduating Class of 2013, all students whose scores are college reportable, both standard and extended time tests, are now included in the report. This report focuses on: (1) Performance: student test performance in the context of college...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Academic Standards, Achievement Tests,...
The components of the glass were compared as to ionic size and valence and/or position in the periodic table. Modifications in composition included the following ions: Li, Na, K, Mg, Ca, Ba, P, A1, B, and Sn. Silicate glasses were made in the form of standard disks from smelts of a few compositions containing these ions in the oxide form. The compositions were restricted to 2 or 3 oxide systems and were altered by batch additions only. The Na ion was more effective than the Li or K ion in...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Dungan, Warren E., NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIV AT RALEIGH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING,...
The variance is derived for narrow-band noise plus CW signal after detection and gating in time. The problem is solved for ideal and Gaussian filters with square-law and linear detection. The analysis is extended to a model filter in which the envelope of narrow-band noise plus signal is considered to be a function which is (1) constant for time intervals equal to the reciprocal of the noise bandwidth and (2) statistically independent in different intervals. Close agreement was obtained among...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Maximon, L. C., Ruina, J. P., BROWN UNIV PROVIDENCE RI, *NOISE, *NARROWBAND, LINEAR...
An acceptance sampling procedure and tables of related sampling inspection plans for the evaluation of lot quality in terms of reliable life are presented. The Weibull distribution, including the exponential distribution as a special case of the Weibull, is assumed as a statistical model for item lifelength. The evaluation of sample items is by attributes with life testing being truncated at the end of a specified period of time. Tables of factors are also provided from which other sampling...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GOODE, HENRY P, CORNELL UNIV ITHACA NY, *STATISTICAL TESTS, *TABLES(DATA), BIOLOGY,...
The report gives the development of a useful, mathematical model for the teleseismic travel-times and discusses the statistical techniques involved in the estimation of model parameters. The problems which limit the accuracy of epicenter determinations are discussed in detail.
Topics: DTIC Archive, Herrin, Eugene, SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIV DALLAS TX DEPT OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES,...
Derivation of the basic equations and computer solution and tabling of values of overall crimp and cover factor in terms of displacement ratio (h/D) and spacing ratio (p/D) are provided for maximum weavable constructions in plain, three-, four-, and five-harness weaves and for yarn balance (Beta) values ranging from 0.5 to 2.0.
Topics: DTIC Archive, Weiner, Louis I, ARMY NATICK LABS MA CLOTHING AND PERSONAL LIFE SUPPORT EQUIPMENT...
