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Whitten, Penelope A.; Nozero, Victoria A. – Reference Librarian, 1997
A pilot survey of academic reference librarians in Nevada determined that 74% of those identified as second-career librarians cited prior work experience as influencing their present approach to work. Effects noted were service orientation, subject expertise, teaching skills, "information provider" philosophy, empathy, and interviewing…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Empathy, Higher Education, Interviews
Everett, Melissa – Online, 1997
Sarah Warner is manager of content licensing for Amulet, which provides an Internet-based automated research service in information technology (InfoWizard). In this interview, she discusses her work experience as a cataloger and information center manager, carry over skills from past positions, her present responsibilities in content management,…
Descriptors: Information Centers, Information Management, Information Scientists, Information Technology
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Walker, Betty – Business Education Forum, 1985
The author suggests alternative methods of teaching accounting in order to bring the community into the classroom: compiling lists of possible field trips, speakers, and other sources of information; a questionnaire for students; field trips; speakers in the classroom; individual interviews; analyzing records of small businesses; and using…
Descriptors: Accounting, Community Resources, Field Trips, Guidelines
Nolan, Mary Ann Cascio – 1987
First-year principals will assume the role of instructional leaders in environments created by their predecessors. How these novices feel, react, and attempt to fulfill the expectations of their supervisor, staff, and community are investigated in this paper. Three male and three female first-year principals in Long Island, New York public schools…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Beginning Principals
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Zenoff, Elyce H.; Barron, Jerome A. – Journal of Legal Education, 1983
Problems in evaluating and predicting the competence of faculty applicants are discussed. Specific recomendations are made for improving the selection process, including creating an applicant "scorecard" of credentials, and improving professional association services and publications related to placement. (MSE)
Descriptors: Competence, Decision Making, Evaluation Criteria, Faculty Recruitment
Burrow, Jim; Ditzenberger, Roger – 1982
This self-instructional module, the ninth in a series of 16 on techniques for coordinating work experience programs, deals with evaluating on-the-job training. Addressed in the module are the purpose of and procedures for evaluating students' on-the-job training and procedures for conducting evaluation interviews to discuss students' on-the-job…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Guidelines
Linn, Patricia L. – 1993
This paper examines the role of work in a psychology work/study curriculum at Antioch College (Ohio), and argues that the view of student's work that is described may represent a missed opportunity to help students learn. Students, through interviews and journal entries, provided their opinions regarding if and in what ways their classes…
Descriptors: College Students, Cooperative Education, Experiential Learning, Higher Education
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1982
The findings of a research project undertaken by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) on student responsibility as it relates to job performance are reported. Forty high school students, 15 teachers, and 18 employers involved in Cooperative Work Experience and Experience-Based Career Education programs were interviewed. The…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Employee Responsibility, Employer Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship
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Wolffe, K.; Sacks, S. Z. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1997
Analysis of interviews and time-diary protocols with 48 students (16 blind, 16 low-vision, and 16 sighted), ages 15-21, and their parents focused on four lifestyle areas: academic involvement and performance, daily living and personal care activities, recreation and leisure activities, and work and vocational experiences. Similarities and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Blindness, Daily Living Skills
Schmalle, Bonnie – 1982
This self-instructional module, one of 16 on techniques for coordinating work experience programs, provides preservice and inservice educational materials for teacher-coordinators supervising on the job training. The three goals stated for this module are (1) to know the types of information needed to obtain an appropriate training station, (2) to…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Behavioral Objectives, Cooperative Education, Employers
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Burrow, Jim – 1982
This self-instructional module, the eighth in a series of 16 on techniques for coordinating work experience programs, deals with developing and implementing training plans. Addressed in the module are the purposes and features of a training plan, developing a training plan, and implementing a training plan for each student in the program. The…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Coordination, Educational Cooperation, Interviews
Miller, Aaron J.; Bragg, Debra D. – 1985
A study undertaken to aid administrators in considering program alternatives for administering Occupational Work Adjustment (OWA) and Occupational Work Experience (OWE) programs in Ohio examined the Ohio Department of Education's certification of OWA and OWE teachers in light of the state's new minimum standards for elementary and secondary…
Descriptors: Career Education, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged, Educational Opportunities