One of the most shocking claims about child abuse in recent years is that satanic, occult, or ritualistic abuse is occurring and on the rise. To date, no one has attempted to assess the prevalence of claims of such abuse, or to determine the range of cases and the nature of the typical case. This study is currently surveying approximately 41,000 persons and agencies, including all county-level social service, law, and district attorney agencies, as well as a sample of psychologists,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Child Abuse, Incidence, National Surveys, Psychologists, Religion
Based on data from the Family Foster Care Reimbursement Survey for 1981, tables in this report present the level of the 50 states' reimbursements for family foster care. Categories of data reported include age of child in foster care, basic monthly rate, clothing allowance, personal and incidental allowance, and special needs allowance (on a continuum ranging from mild to very severe). (RH)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foster Care, National Surveys, State Programs, Tables (Data)
Designed to elicit information for the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972, this questionnaire for counselors is concerned with time allocation, number of students assigned, types of counseling done, methodology for job placement of students, experience, educational background, personal data, and the counselor's experience with available financial aid for postsecondary education. (RC)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Counselors, Grade 12, Longitudinal Studies, National Surveys, Questionnaires
THE MATERIAL FROM THE SEMINARS COVERED BY THIS REPORT IS ARRANGED IN FIVE CATEGORIES--(1) THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE USES OF TELEVISION (TV) IN EDUCATION, (2) THE ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF TV IN EDUCATION, (3) A PLAN FOR CONDUCTING A CONTINUING CENSUS ON THE USES OF TV IN EDUCATION, (4) THE PROJECTED USES OF TV IN EDUCATION DURING THE NEXT DECADE, AND (5) DETAILED CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS. (LP)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Television, National Surveys, Seminars, HULL, RICHARD B.
This statistical digest presents data on the prevalence of disabling conditions among the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States. Data were obtained from the National Health Interview Survey, consisting of 49,401 household interviews with 128,412 people in 1992. Disability is defined as a limitation in social or other activity that is caused by a chronic mental or physical disorder, injury, or impairment. The digest concludes that approximately 38 million Americans report...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Classification, Disabilities, Incidence, Injuries, National Surveys, LaPlante,...
The directory surveys sources of vocational information in each of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, Saipan, and the Virgin Islands. For each of these, the directory provides the following information: the name, address, and phone number of the State Research Coordinating Unit Director; similar information for other persons in similar capacities; the address of the regional office of the Bureau of Occupational and Adult Education, and of the regional offices...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Directories, Educational Resources, National Surveys, Resource Materials, Vocational...
The document contains the data files created by a Rand Corporation study on the cost of special education based on information from a 1977-78 national survey of 50 local education agencies in 14 states. The project objective is to improve decisionmaking on special education programing and finance by providing information on the services provided and the costs of alternative types of educational placements for children of different ages and with various types of handicap. The study includes data...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cost Effectiveness, Disabilities, National Surveys, Program Costs, Special Education
During its first 14 years of existence, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) was located at the Education Commission of the States (ECS). This annotated bibliography of 575 references lists all major publications by or about NAEP published between 1969 and 1983. References are in a classified arrangement, by specific or special assessment. Documents not dealing with a specific assessment are grouped by: Methodological Publications; Special Analyses; and General and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Assessment, National Surveys, Outcomes of...
It is well-established that women do the vast majority of household labor. West and Zimmerman's concept of "doing gender" suggests that sex inequity persists because housework enables women to demonstrate their gendered identities to others. However, changes in gendered norms for housework may be underway because recent studies indicate that women are reducing their amount of household labor and some are complaining about the burdens. Certain types of conflicts may be an indicator of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conflict Resolution, Housework, Marital Satisfaction, National Surveys, Sex...
This brief document provides an overview of the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP), an annual online survey, data management, and institutional improvement system designed to enhance the impact of arts-school education. SNAAP aims to provide the first national data on how artists develop in this country, help identify the factors needed to better connect arts training to artistic careers and allow education institutions, researchers and arts leaders to look at the systemic factors...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Artists, Alumni, Art Education, National Surveys, High Schools, Colleges
This supplement to the final report presents raw data from the survey for a project to describe the current and future roles of professional administrators, medical directors, and governing bodies of fee for service and prepay medical group practices of various sizes in such a way as to be potentially useful to health care delivery educators in curriculum evaluation and design. The raw data are presented in tabular format, and each table is introduced with a description of the data and how the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Administrators, Medical Services, National Surveys, Tables (Data)
This report is based on data from the 1988 National Health Interview Survey on Alcohol (NHIS-Alcohol), part of the ongoing National Health Interview Survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. Interviews for the NHIS are conducted in person by staff of the United States Bureau of the Census. Information is collected on each member of the family. The survey contains many questions concerning alcohol consumption; the personal, medical, and social problems associated with...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Alcoholism, Drinking, Family (Sociological Unit), Health, Incidence, National Surveys
Designed to elicit information for the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972, most of the information required in this questionnaire should be obtainable from the school's records. Information not available from the records is obtained by interviewing the student, using a blank copy of this questionnaire as an interview guide. Information collected covered academic grade average, college admission test scores, ability grouping, courses completed, course of study, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Grade 12, Longitudinal Studies, National Surveys, Questionnaires, Student Records
The School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS) is a national survey periodically conducted to assess school health policies and programs at the state, district, school, and classroom levels. This brief reports study results in the following areas, as they relate to nutrition: (1) Health Education; (2) Health Services and Mental Health and Social Services; (3) Nutrition Services; and (4) Healthy and Safe School Environment. (Contains 1 footnote, 2 tables, and 2 figures.)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Nutrition, Comprehensive School Health Education, National Surveys, Research Reports
With limited exceptions, existing research has focused on either intrafamily violence or crime and violence outside the family. This study examined the proportion of men who only offend extrafamilially, the proportion of men who are violent only towards their wives, and the proportion of men who are violent in both spheres. Unincarcerated males (N=2,291) were interviewed over the telephone regarding any violence towards their wives and any violent behavior toward individuals who were not in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Aggression, Battered Women, Family Violence, Males, National Surveys, Violence
This publication presents information on salaries for staff members of state associations of the National Education Association (NEA) as well as the NEA affiliates for Overseas Schools, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C. Salary data for each association are presented either in schedule form or as listings of salaries for individual staff positions. Data are not included for the state associations of Louisiana, New York, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania. (Author/JG)
Topics: ERIC Archive, National Surveys, Personnel Data, Salaries, Tables (Data), Teacher Associations
This report presents estimates on private health insurance for 1977, based on the National Medical Care Expenditure Survey (NMCES). The NMCES obtained information on private insurance policies in force in 1977 from the employers and insurance companies of a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population. A brief discussion of the financing of health care through private health insurance and the importance of employer-sponsored plans is included. A detailed...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adults, Financial Support, Fringe Benefits, Health Insurance, National Surveys
This report presents data on the timing of first sexual intercourse in relation to first marriage, and the timing of marital dissolution and remarriage among ever-married women in the United States. The findings in this report are based on preliminary data from the National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle III, a survey conducted periodically on topics related to childbearing, contraceptive practice, and related aspects of maternal and child health. In Cycle III, conducted in 1982, interviews...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Divorce, Females, Marital Status, Marriage, National Surveys, Remarriage, Sexuality
This report on rules affecting the eligibility of the mentally retarded for interscholastic athletics uses as its source of information a survey of state high school athletic or activity associations. Excerpts from the replies are interspersed throughout the report which, in essay form, describes the overall rules and attitudes of these organizations over the country, then presents rationale for and against eligibility of retarded students, suggests criteria, and makes recommendations for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Admission Criteria, Athletics, Eligibility, Mental Retardation, National Surveys,...
A survey was made, once in the fall of 1968 and again in the spring of 1969, of schools participating in the individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) program. The results of questions concerning pupil placement, prescription, curriculum-embedded tests, and posttests are compared. (JY)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Individualized Instruction, Individualized Programs, National Surveys, Program...
The School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS) is a national survey periodically conducted to assess school health policies and programs at the state, district, school, and classroom levels. This brief reports 2006 study results in the area of pregnancy prevention, covering the following topics: (1) Health Education; and (2) Health Services and Mental Health and Social Services. (Contains 2 tables, 2 figures, and 1 footnote.)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Prevention, Pregnancy, Comprehensive School Health Education, National Surveys,...
Although popular literature cites between 25,000 and 100,000 parental child snatchings a year, no empirical studies have been conducted to support this estimate. To determine an empirical estimate of the extent of parental child snatchings, telephone interviews were conducted by Louis Harris and Associates with a representative cross section of adults, 18 years of age and over, at 3,745 sampling points within the United States, between June and August of 1982. Respondents were read a definition...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Child Custody, Family Problems, Incidence, National Surveys, Sampling, Social Problems
Phase 1 of the project consisted of a survey of the states to determine the type of model used in the states' evaluation of vocational-technical education. In addition, a search was made of RIE and CIJE to determine the most recent evaluation research studies conducted in each state. Through responses to inquiries and the literature search, the type of evaluation and research studies conducted in each state was determined. The various methods of evaluation used were grouped into the eight...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Evaluation Methods, Literature Reviews, National Surveys, Technical Education,...
In 2003, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and UNESCO co-organized a Regional Workshop on School Library Services in South East Asia. It was followed by a project to examine the current state of information literacy education and recommend action plans to increase school libraries' involvement in the development of information literacy. The project spent six months on planning in the second half of 2004, conducted national surveys from January to July...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Information Literacy, School Libraries, Library Development, National Surveys,...
This document presents timely statistical information on the nation's organized mental health service delivery system. Included are: (1) "Chronic Mental Disorder in the United States" (Howard H. Goldman and Ronald W. Manderscheid); (2) "Specialty Mental Health System Characteristics" (Michael J. Witkin, Joanne E. Atay, Adele S. Fell, and Ronald W. Manderscheid); (3) "Use of Inpatient Psychiatric Services by Special Populations" (Marilyn J. Rosenstein, Laura J....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Delivery Systems, Health Services, Mental Disorders, Mental Health, National Surveys
In a national survey conducted during 1973 and 1974, 160 managing editors answered a questionnaire concerning the newshole policies of their papers. According to the survey, the typical daily newspaper in the United States uses slightly less than 45% of its space for nonadvertising content, reflecting little change since a 1957 survey. Larger newspapers tend to have larger newsholes in terms of actual column inches, although the percentage of the newspaper devoted to news is smaller than that...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Journalism, Layout (Publications), Media Research, National Surveys, News Reporting,...
UNEMPLOYMENT DATA FOR 1965 TO 1966 FOR THE 20 LARGEST UNITED STATES METROPOLITAN AREAS SHOWED WHO THE PEOPLE ARE WHO ARE OUT OF WORK, WHERE THEY ARE, AND WHY THEY ARE UNEMPLOYED. SOME OF THE FINDINGS WERE--(1) A THIRD OF THOSE UNEMPLOYED, ABOUT ONE MILLION PEOPLE, LIVED IN THESE METROPOLITAN AREAS, (2) THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN 10 OF THE AREAS WAS SIGNIFICANTLY ABOVE THE NATIONAL AVERAGE OF ABOUT 3-3/4 PERCENT, (3) THE NONWHITE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE WAS ABOUT THREE TIMES THE WHITE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Individual Characteristics, National Surveys, Slums, Statistical Surveys,...
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A nationwide survey completed by 242 braille readers was undertaken to gather information on readers' current use of braille materials and their individual reading interests. The majority of respondents preferred braille as their primary reading medium, yet only 63% had borrowed braille materials from the library in the past year. Readers were generally satisfied with the service from cooperating libraries, with major difficulties noted to be receiving, storing, and returning bulky books and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Blindness, Braille, Library Services, National Surveys, Reading Materials, Visual...
The School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS) is a national survey periodically conducted to assess school health policies and programs at the state, district, school, and classroom levels. This brief presents study results in the area of physical education. (Contains 2 tables, 2 figures, and 1 footnote.)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Physical Education, Comprehensive School Health Education, National Surveys, Research...
This paper describes the development of a taxonomy of residential facilities for mentally retarded people based on program model, size, and operation. Data are presented on the use of the classification system in a national survey of 15,633 residential facilities for mentally retarded persons in the United States. Program models are defined (supported natural home, foster home, group residence, semi-independent living facility, supported independent living, board and supervision facility,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Classification, Mental Retardation, Models, National Surveys, Research Methodology,...
Recent panel studies of deterrence have reported little evidence that perceptions of legal sanctions promote deterrence. Yet those studies have consistently found that extralegal sanctions "inhibit" criminal involvement. Conclusions drawn from this line of research remain speculative, however, because they are guided by an unnecessarily narrow conception of deterrence, the distinction between legal and extralegal sanctions is unclear, and the analyses conducted gloss over some...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Battered Women, Crime, Crime Prevention, National Surveys, Punishment, Social Control
A survey of all U.S. cities having populations greater than 50,000 and of 125 cities having populations between 20,000 and 50,000 shows that the adoption or planning of educational parks is becoming widespread throughout the country. The survey used three sources to obtain data on current educational park development: (1) Questionnaires to State commissioners of education and superintendents of schools, (2) a national newspaper clipping service, and (3) published reports, correspondence, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Facilities, Educational Parks, Educational Planning, National Surveys,...
The purpose of this project was to collect data concerning the black magazine in order to assess whether or not there was sufficient material to merit further study of black publications. A pilot study revealed that the purely mass magazines act as forums for expression and appear to have the following recurrent themes: black awareness, survival, identity, liberation, black aesthetics, and pan-Africanism. The trend in black magazines appears to be from religious to general to nationalistic. It...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bibliographies, Black Culture, Black Literature, Cultural Images, National Surveys,...
An overview of environmental education programs throughout the United States is presented in this Education U.S.A. Special Report by the National School Public Relations Association. Six statewide and seven local programs are described which represent comprehensive and well conceived plans and display outstanding features. However, most programs lacked in some degree three criteria advocated by many authorities in the field: (1) environmentalism should be worked into every subject in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comprehensive Programs, Educational Programs, Environmental Education, National...
The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) asks persons aged 12 or older about their use of marijuana or hashish in the past year, including their frequency of use. This report focuses on how and where past year marijuana users aged 18 to 25 obtained their most recently used marijuana. Findings include estimates from the combined 2002, 2003, and 2004 NSDUH data. In 2002 to 2004, a majority (58.3 percent) of past year marijuana users aged 18 to 25 obtained their most recently used...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Drug Abuse, Young Adults, Marijuana, National Surveys, Adolescents, Gender Differences
The effectiveness of four methods of handling missing data in reproducing the target sample covariance matrix and mean vector was tested using three levels of incomplete cases: 30%, 50%, and 70%. Data were selected from the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS) database. Three levels of sample sizes (500, 1000, and 2000) were used. The assumption of missing data completely at random was violated in all samples. Results indicate that listless deletion was most effective in replicating the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Databases, National Surveys, Research Methodology, Sample Size, Witta, E. Lea
National estimates based on the findings from the Health Examination Survey in 1963 to 1965 of uncorrected monocular and binocular visual-acuity levels of children were studied. A nationwide sample of 7,417 children was selected to represent the approximately 24 million noninstitutionalized American children between ages 6 and 11 years. Testing was done with the Master Ortho-Rater, a commercial instrument, on all children who could read letters. Those who could not read were tested using...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Children, National Surveys, Research, Screening Tests, Vision Tests, Visual Acuity
The School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS) is a national survey periodically conducted to assess school health policies and programs at the state, district, school, and classroom levels. This brief presents the results of the study in the area of physical activity, covering the following topics: (1) Health Education; (2) Physical Activity; and (3) Health Services and Mental Health and Social Services. (Contains 3 tables, 2 figures, and 1 footnote.)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Physical Activities, Comprehensive School Health Education, National Surveys,...
Every four years, public opinion polls become a national obsession in the months leading up to the presidential election, with new results breathlessly reported nearly every day. But polling is not exclusively the province of political reporters. A handful of national surveys released each year focus on education, including the Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup poll about public attitudes toward education and MetLife's annual survey of teachers. There is also often polling done for statewide...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Public Opinion, Journalism, National Surveys, State Surveys, Education, Wieder, Ben
Part of a series of statistical surveys on public broadcasting based on data supplied by public television and Corporation for Public Broadcasting qualified public radio stations, this report provides details of public radio program content for fiscal year 1982. The chapters include information on the following: (1) definitions and categories; (2) the status of public radio in 1982; (3) public radio programing statistics; (4) music and news/public affairs programing; (5) informational, spoken...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Broadcast Industry, Content Analysis, Educational Radio, National Surveys, Programing...
A directory of 4,013 hospital-administered allied health and nursing programs throughout the United States is presented in the document. Section 1, Guide to Training Programs, is designed for guidance counselors, students, and health planners. It contains an alphabetical listing of training programs within major occupational categories and provides information on program length, educational entrance requirements, and number of graduates. Section 2, Guide to Hospitals Having Training Programs,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Allied Health Occupations Education, Directories, Educational Programs, National...
The paper presents the Seventh Annual Report of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to Congress on the status of handicapped children in Head Start programs, including the number of children being served, their handicapping conditions, and the services being provided to them. An overview of Head Start policies on services to handicapped children is provided, and services to handicapped children are examined in terms of outreach and recruitment, diagnosis and assessment,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Disabilities, National Surveys, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Program...
SHPPS is a national survey periodically conducted to assess school health policies and programs at the state, district, school, and classroom levels. This brief reports study results in the area of physical school environment. (Contains 2 tables and 1 figure.)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Environment, Comprehensive School Health Education, Research Reports,...
A survey was made of television viewing in Canada in order to show the impact of cable television on television viewing in general, with special emphasis on examining the effect on the various categories of television station ownership. The report shows the extent to which television viewing habits vary between (a) those who watch television via cable, (b) those who watch by direct off-air means, and (c) all viewers in either of these two categories. The five ownership categories of TV stations...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cable Television, National Surveys, Programing (Broadcast), Television, Television...
This report presents the findings of the 1987 National Drug and Alcoholism Treatment Unit Survey, a national survey designed to measure the location, scope, and characteristics of drug abuse and alcoholism treatment and prevention facilities, services, and activities throughout the United States, including the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories. An introductory chapter describes the background of the survey, the report format, characteristics of the reporting base, and data...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholism, Drinking, Drug Abuse, Drug Rehabilitation, National...
Information on the existence of written exit criteria was obtained from 178 surveys completed by personnel of early childhood education programs for handicapped children across the United States. Descriptions of criteria being used to make decisions about a child leaving a program also were provided. Results indicated that approximately half of the programs had formal written exit criteria and half did not. The most commonly cited criterion for children exiting a program was chronological age....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Criteria, Decision Making, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, National Surveys,...
Interview practices of Physicians Assistant (PA) educational programs were compared in a national study of 43 such programs, using a four-page, 16-item mailed survey. Of these, 41 conducted interviews, but the number of interviews required and the interview formats used varied greatly. Thirty-seven programs who interviewed met with candidates one at a time. A slight majority (58%) of the programs interviewed applicants only once or twice. A surprisingly large number (41.5%) of the PA programs...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Admission Criteria, College Faculty, Interviews, National Surveys, Physicians...
This document contains brief descriptions of activities of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for the assessment cycle from October 1, 2001 through September 30, 2002. Data are presented about the numbers of student booklets processed, items administered, and responses scored. Information is provided about sample size at grades 4, 8, and 12. Information is also provided about meetings and conferences connected with NAEP, including meetings of the National Assessment...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Agency Role, Contracts, National Surveys, Statistical Surveys,...
This bibliography, conceived as one of the earliest undertakings of the survey, does for the materials published from 1923 to 1931 what the Educational Finance Inquiry's bibliography did for the earlier years. Like the earlier bibliography, this one aims to stimulate school executives and research workers to progress in financing education. In a way each heading in the bibliography represents one or more problems in school finance. Nearly every important heading opens and plainly marks new and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Finance, Bibliographies, National Surveys, Statistical Data, Alexander,...
