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Plake, Barbara S. – 1992
The "Mental Measurements Yearbook" (MMY) series has provided researchers and practitioners with availability and evaluative information about commercially available English-language tests for over 50 years. However, two myths exist that are believed by some users of these resources. The first myth is that there are some minimum quality…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Evaluation Criteria, Measurement Techniques
Doty, Charles R. – 1985
This annotated bibliography is intended to provide community college and technical institute personnel with a listing of available curriculum guides dealing with automated technologies. Described in the handbook are a total of 31 curriculum guides that were selected because they met the following criteria: availability in the ERIC system or…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Automation, Community Colleges, Computer Science
Welch, Noreen O. – 1968
This report is a survey of five on-line retrieval systems that, with one exception, have been used to demonstrate on-line access to the recently developed Committee on Scientific and Technical Information (COSATI) inventory of government sponsored work now in progress in the area of information sciences and technology. The report was prepared to…
Descriptors: Documentation, Information Processing, Information Retrieval, Information Science
Probst, George; Meredith, Dwight – 1979
To develop a coordinated interagency effort to improve North Carolina citizen access to employment opportunities, a statewide assessment was conducted of the availability and need for local labor market information in 1977-1978. Need and availability was assessed across five state agencies--Vocational Education, Community Colleges, CETA…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns
Indiana State Advisory Council on Vocational Education, Indianapolis. – 1978
Developed as an aid to those responsible for facility planning in vocational education, this document contains the "School Building/Site Assessment Packet" and its instruction manual. The instruction manual provides background information, describes meanings, and presents ideas that are pertinent to consider and understand when using the…
Descriptors: Cost Estimates, Educational Equipment, Educational Facilities, Evaluation Methods
Hunter, Wanda, Comp.; Knight, Elizabeth, Comp. – 1998
The Consortium of Longitudinal Studies in Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN) brings together five long-term studies of child maltreatment that utilize common procedures and instrumentation. Although each site is a separate project, collaboration permits exploration of additional issues and replication of findings. This paper provides brief reports…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Abuse, Child Behavior, Child Neglect
Moore, Byron E.; Moore, Arnold J. – 1975
Reported is an investigation done to obtain descriptive answers to such questions as: What variables influence high school students' willingness to become personally involved with scientific activities? What variables influence these students' perception of the scientist? The study is described and includes an extensive review of the literature…
Descriptors: Educational Research, High School Students, Predictor Variables, Science Course Improvement Projects
Health Resources Administration (DHEW/PHS), Bethesda, MD. – 1979
This guidebook provides a listing of individual health careers and descriptions. Proceeding that is a brief overview of the health field followed by suggestions and procedures for effective career planning and a section regarding the use and availability of financial aid with suggestions for application. There is also a health careers calendar…
Descriptors: Career Opportunities, Career Planning, Careers, Employment Qualifications
HEWER, DAVID J. – 1966
SEARCH STRATEGIES WHICH CAN BE CONTINUOUSLY MODIFIED WERE DEVELOPED FOR COORDINATE SEARCHING SYSTEMS. USING THE FILES OF THE NASA TECHNOLOGY UTILIZATION PROGRAM AT THE KNOWLEDGE AVAILABILITY SYSTEMS CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, A STUDY WAS CONDUCTED OF THE RETRIEVAL OF RELEVANT DOCUMENTS BY BOTH MANUAL AND MACHINE METHODS FOR FIVE QUESTIONS…
Descriptors: Documentation, Evaluation Methods, Indexes, Indexing
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Trent, James W.; Rose, Clare – 1973
This document is the fifth volume in a 5-part series that reports the results of a project undertaken to critically review and analyze major longitudinal studies of child and student development. These studies were conducted to discover the variables, techniques, methodologies, and problems pertinent to evaluative studies of the effects of schools…
Descriptors: Child Development, Classification, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Environment
Culver City Unified School District, CA. – 1968
DESIGNED AS AN ADJUNCT TO MATERIALS DEVELOPED BY THE NUCLEAR SCIENCE CURRICULUM PROJECT, THIS DOCUMENT PROVIDES RESOURCE MATERIAL WITH WHICH THE NUCLEAR SCIENCE CURRICULUM MAY BE ENRICHED, AND ADDRESSES ITSELF TO (1) INSTRUCTIONAL AIDS PRESENTLY AVAILABLE, (2) USE OF INSTRUCTIONAL AIDS TO SUPPLEMENT THE CURRENT SCIENCE CURRICULA, (3) FACILITIES…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Bibliographies, Curriculum Development, Films
Studdert-Kennedy, Michael, Ed.; O'Brien, Nancy, Ed. – 1985
One of a regular series on the status and progress of research into the nature of speech, instrumentation for its investigation, and practical applications, this report consists of 17 papers dealing with the following topics: (1) vagueness and fictions as cornerstones of a theory of perceiving and acting--a commentary on D.O. Walter; (2) the…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Cognitive Processes, Communication Research, Language Acquisition
Powell, Ronald J.; And Others – 1991
This report documents efforts to develop instruments for data-gathering and to train field staff in the use of the instruments, as part of a feasibility study designed to validate a conceptual framework that describes the elements of California's special education prereferral and alternative assessment procedures for ethno-linguistically diverse…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Cultural Differences, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
Biester, Thomas W. – 1976
Prepared for use with Research for Better Schools' career education programs, this guide is designed to assist in the selection of instruments which measure program goals. The guide provides descriptions of ten instruments: (1) student demographic data questionnaire, (2) career maturity inventory, (3) assessment of career development, (4)…
Descriptors: Career Education, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Guides
Hendrix, William Francis – 1967
The purpose of this study was to construct an instrument to be used in the collection and evaluation of data upon which to base decisions regarding the scope and character of vocational programs in individual high schools. Following a review of pertinent literature, a list of categories of information needed was drafted and organized under four…
Descriptors: Community Benefits, Data Collection, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Administration
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