Charts and graphs display research findings on the vocational teacher's job in such areas as hours spent on teaching and ancillary duties, class size, special needs students, basic skills proficiency, inservice training, classroom observation, and status of equipment and materials. (SK)

Explains how Tidewater Community College's cooperative education program uses the proficiency analysis system (PAS) to measure coordinator's student load. Explains the advantages of the PAS model and its applications to other institutions' programs of cooperative education. (JOW)

This study investigated the attitudes of faculty members toward the reliability and validity of student ratings and its uses for administrative purposes, i.e., promotion and tenure considerations. The effects of background and organizational variables were also researched. (Author/LMO)

Analyzes the changes in the ratio of part-time to full-time faculty in the community colleges from 1972-73 to 1976-77. Includes a literature review, tables illustrating regional ratios, and a discussion of the implications of the change from part-time faculty comprising 40 percent of instructional staff in 1972-73 to 56 percent in 1976-77. (DD)