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Mohapatra, Manindra K.; And Others – 1989
A study was conducted of professional socialization, public service values, and political orientations of the state administrators in Kentucky. A sample of 3,000 Kentucky public managers was mailed a six-page self-administered questionnaire in three waves. A response rate of 49 percent generated 1,467 usable questionnaires. About 69 percent of the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Government Employees, Higher Education, Political Attitudes
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Zimmerman, Rick S.; Palmgreen, Philip M.; Noar, Seth M.; Lustria, Mia Liza A.; Lu, Hung-Yi; Horosewski, Mary Lee – Health Education & Behavior, 2007
This study evaluates the ability of a safer sex televised public service announcement (PSA) campaign to increase safer sexual behavior among at-risk young adults. Independent, monthly random samples of 100 individuals were surveyed in each city for 21 months as part of an interrupted-time-series design with a control community. The 3-month…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Audiences, Young Adults
Mohapatra, Manindra K.; And Others – 1990
An ongoing empirical study is being conducted of the professional socialization of Kentucky's state public administrators. The study proposes two measurable attitudinal latent traits: orientation to public service professionalism and political acuity. Relationships among independent, intervening, and dependent variables include education/training,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Government Employees, Higher Education, Political Attitudes
Sturges, Jack; Krislov, Evelyn – 1974
This document evaluates six three-week inservice training sessions provided for Kentucky public assistance workers. The training was conducted with 15 trainees participating in each session. Trainees were state employees who were employed to determine eligibility for food stamps, medical assistance, SSA unemployment insurance, etc. Their formal…
Descriptors: Field Interviews, Higher Education, Nonprofessional Personnel, Postsecondary Education
Mohapatra, Manindra K.; And Others – 1990
A study was conducted to determine whether data from a 1988-89 Kentucky survey measured differences in the value level held by minority and women administrators and their respective counterparts (majority and male administrators). The sample included 1,500 public service managers who had received inservice training and 1,500 who had not. The 1,471…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Adult Education, Minority Groups
Donohew, Lewis; And Others – 1989
A study was conducted to determine how to reach out in an effective manner via televised public service announcements (PSAs) to particular at-risk audiences to motivate participation in drug abuse prevention programs. The subjects (207 young adults in Fayette County, Kentucky) responded to the M. Zuckerman sensation-seeking questionnaire. They…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Audience Analysis, Drug Abuse, Drug Addiction
Kentucky State Dept. of Education, Frankfort. Office of Vocational Education. – 1986
This handbook is designed to provide teacher applicants and vocational educators with general information about Kentucky's Beginning Vocational Teacher Testing Program. Information is provided on amended chapter 396 of Kentucky's Revised Statute, which stipulates that all new/beginning teachers successfully complete appropriate written tests and…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Beginning Teachers, Business Education
Bayne, G. Keith – 1985
This report provides the results of a questionnaire survey of 830 postsecondary vocational-technical students attending state-operated schools in Kentucky. The objectives of the study were: (1) to provide demographic information needed to prepare profiles of typical students by program area; (2) to determine the relationships of economic status…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Business Education, Demography, Disabilities
Keeton, Martha; And Others – 1983
This manual provides curriculum materials for implementing a career exploration class in public service occupations within a Practical Arts Education program for middle/junior high school students. Introductory materials include the program master sequence, a list of public service occupations, and an overview of the competency-based instructional…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrators, Behavioral Objectives, Career Education