TITLE An Analytical Review of Longitudinal and Related Studies as They Apply to the Educational Process.

This document is the third 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 and colleges on the growth and development of children and young adults..It was anticipated that study results would provide guidelines for the future research needed to enhance educational program planning, implemeptatiop, and evaluation. This volume is primarily devoted to assessing the application of survey methodology to educational research and to the studies reviewed in the project..The authors first discuss the purpose or orientation of the study and the validity of the inferences drawn from the data, and they describe the logic of th