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Download full textByler, Bennie L. – 1976
The study was conducted to determine if there are differences in selected factors related to educational and occupational decision-making between vocational agriculture students who live on a farm and those who do not. The comparison is based on the students' educational and occupational plans; differences in selected personal, family, and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Agricultural Education, Career Choice, Career Planning
Sumter, Paul Edward – 1969
The purpose of this study was to see if learning could be improved by controlling the environment at the individual student's level. A pretest, post-test, random choice design was chosen to obtain data from over 900 subjects of technical-vocational schools, area community colleges, and high schools of Iowa, with emphasis on grades 11 and 12 and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Doctoral Dissertations, Environmental Influences, Environmental Research
Fanslow, Alyce M.; Compton, Cheryl W. – 1981
Entrepreneurship is a career option through which home economics teachers can challenge their students who have the independence, skills, and self-discipline necessary to succeed as small business owners. This unit was developed to assist home economics teachers in incorporating an entrepreneurial dimension into their programs. The unit contains…
Descriptors: Advertising, Behavioral Objectives, Business Administration, Business Education
Byler, Bennie L.; Kaas, Duane A. – 1976
The study was conducted to determine if there are differences in selected factors related to the educational and occupational plans of vocational agriculture students who plan to enter on-farm agricultural occupations, those who plan to enter off-farm agricultural occupations, and those who plan to enter non-agricultural occupations. The…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Agricultural Education, Career Choice, Career Planning
Reschly, Daniel J. – 1980
Issues surrounding the concept of nonbiased assessment, particularly with economically disadvantaged minority students, are analyzed. The legal requirements are focused on thorough discussion of litigation and legislation. The second section explores research on the use of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R). Research…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Kahler, Alan A. – 1970
The study was designed to test new instructional techniques in vocational agriculture, determine their effectiveness on student achievement, and compare individual and group instructional techniques. Forty-eight randomly selected Iowa high school vocational agriculture programs with enrollments of 35 students or more, were selected for testing the…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Control Groups, Conventional Instruction, Educational Media
Braddock, Richard – Iowa English Yearbook, 1966
Procedures for granting freshmen advanced standing in English at eight Iowa colleges and universities are briefly described. At Central College, Drake University, Mason City Junior College, State College of Iowa, University of Iowa, and Wartburg College, students who have participated in the high school Advanced Standing Program are automatically…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Advanced Placement Programs, College Bound Students, College Freshmen
Miller, W. Wade; And Others – 1988
This curriculum guide can be used by secondary and postsecondary agriculture instructors for a semester course in marketing agricultural products or individual units can be incorporated in other courses. The curriculum guide consists of six units of study made up of two to eight lessons each. The units cover the following topics: (1) marketing…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques
Broughton, Valerie J. – 1984
The purpose of the School Improvement Model (SIM) Project is to investigate the links between systematically developed teacher performance evaluation, administrator performance evaluation, staff development interventions, and the quality of education as measured by student achievement results. Following the 4th year of the 5-year study,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Improvement, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Gilbert, Ardyce Lucile – 1966
This investigation, part of a longitudinal study of homemaking teacher effectiveness, was designed to explore the usefulness of clinical judgments to predict teacher success. Clinical judgment is defined as involving the ability to make sound decisions after gathering and evaluating all the pertinent evidence, weighing possible alternatives in…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Evaluation Criteria, Home Economics Education, Home Economics Teachers
Reilly, Anthony Joseph, III – 1968
This study tested Fiedler's contingency model of leadership effectiveness on 86 nursing students in a large midwestern hospital. Fourteen individuals representing the task oriented and relationship-oriented leadership styles and two levels of sociometric status were randomly designated as leaders for small groups. The groups worked on five…
Descriptors: Interaction Process Analysis, Leadership Styles, Nursing, Peer Groups
Betz, Ellen L.; and Others – 1969
As part of an intensive study of college student satisfaction a questionnaire has been designed to measure six dimensions of student satisfaction: policies and procedures, working conditions, compensation (relationship of input to outcomes), quality of education, social life, and recognition. A field test of this instrument, the College Student…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, College Students, Measurement Instruments, Measurement Techniques
Thomas, Virginia F.; Newman, Ann – 1970
A total of 107 students from a comprehensive vocational facility, a community college, and high school day and night classes participated in a 6-week pilot project to test curriculum materials and implement an instructional method consisting of nine audiovisual instructional packets on management supplemented by correspondence with a master…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Instruction, Community Colleges, Consumer Education
Yoesting, Dean R.; Bohlen, Joe M. – 1969
This paper discusses the migration expectations of a sample of 152 respondents interviewed while high school seniors in 1948 and reinterviewed in 1956 concerning their migration performances. The research was designed to test the general hypothesis that a relationship exists between certain social and personal characteristics and migration…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Individual Characteristics, Longitudinal Studies, Migration
Kockler, Lois H. – 1973
During each of two school quarters, approximately 60 college students enrolled in a mathematics course were randomly assigned to an experimental group or a control group. The control group received instruction by the lecture method only; the experimental group received the same instruction, except that six computer-assisted instruction (CAI) units…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Covariance, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction
