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Seeks to identify those characteristics of a policy analyst that are essential to his performance by examining the two most important elements in a policy analyst's training: Faculty composition by discipline and course requirements in each discipline.
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Analysis of the paths by which individuals are attracted to, trained for, enter, and reenter the teaching profession.
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Focuses on the mobility patterns of public school teachers in Michigan. Teachers with greater investments in human capital are less likely to leave teaching than teachers with smaller investments, and more likely to receive promotions.
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Develops a number of alternative projections of the market for teachers, showing what might be the future course of the surplus in various circumstances.
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Reports on the first year of a large-scale educational and social intervention that began in the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District, San Jose, California, in 1972.
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A section-by-section condensation of R-1495.
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Presents further discussion and data supplemental to various sections of R-1495, the central report.
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Teachers, Salaries, and School District Expenditures.
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A summary of key problems facing education practitioners wanting to use R&D products or information, and the factors contributing to these problems. The paper considers a general research and policy posture for the National Institute of Education (N...
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Does teacher experience affect student achievement or does a school's average reading ability determine the faculty's average level of experience? In other words, do teachers tend to move to schools attended by superior test takers? To establish the...
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A review of significant developments in the labor mobility literature, with application to the large and rather special labor market for elementary and secondary teachers. To explain the mobility of teachers among schools, among school districts, an...
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A summary of a large-scale experiment conducted by the Air Force Academy to compare time-sharing and batch-processing systems in teaching introductory computer science to 415 cadets. Focus was on "real-world" comparison of student effectiveness with...
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This study addresses the question: How do local public school districts allocate funds among school inputs?
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Attempts to predict the rates of teacher turnover in the 1970s.
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FLUIDMOD is an interactive program for student practice and instruction in the medical treatment of fluid and electrolyte problems in human patients. Previous instructional programs in this field have been based on teaching numerous rules applicable...
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Delineates some problems associated with educational analysis and proposes a program orientation to managing school district operations as a way to use analysis more effectively. The goal of analysis is to increase the understanding of the nature of...
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Discusses and gives cost implications of a previous RAND study (R-781), which relates instructional strategy and other factors to the reading achievement of a 10 percent sample of disadvantaged California students of four elementary grades in special remedial programs.
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CATTS: Computer-Aided Training in Troubleshooting.
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A guide for school districts that may contemplate performance contracting as a way to improve student achievement, stimulate innovation, or achieve other objectives.
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An Information System for Educational Management: Executive Summary.
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