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This report explains why the Management Implications of Team Teaching (MITT) project chose multiple linear regression and path analysis to analyze through-time relationships among variables, and why it rejected repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) and difference scores over time. Project MITT examined governance and work structures for five time periods from 1974 to 1976 in 29 elementary schools, 16 of which had introduced team-teaching (or unitized) methods in 1974. To analyze longitudinal changes among variables and schools, the project's statistical techniques had to take account of small sample size and multiple time periods; they also had to control for pre-1974 differences among the schools, changes in variables because of unitization, and differences in variable means and ranges. All of these factors interfered with comparisons of unitized and nonunitized schools and distorted relationships among the variables. Hierarchical multiple linear regression solved these problems by relating variables to one another both over time and in order of explanatory power. Path analysis using lagged multiple linear regression helped to test postulated relationships through time and explore for further relationships. Four appendices discuss ANOVA, difference scores, path analysis, and corrections used for data cyclicity. (Author/RW)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert