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Blust, Ross S.; And Others – 1984
In an effort to expand research on effective and ineffective schools into the area of student attitudes, this study examined the cognitive, as well as the noncognitive scores for two groups of Pennsylvania schools that had been identified as effective or ineffective. Cognitive and noncognitive data were available for all 500 school districts for…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Basic Skills, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Objectives
Tussey, Jim – 2002
Anxiety has been shown to have detrimental effects on students in the classroom. This study examined the relations between motivational variables and anxiety. In particular, this study utilized goal orientation theory to examine whether the personal goals a student adopts and the goal structures a student perceives in the classroom are predictors…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Classroom Environment, Goal Orientation
Stengel, Jean Craig; Richardson, Richard C. – 1984
A study was conducted to examine the influence of administrative actions on levels of faculty commitment to administratively defined priorities. Previous research conducted in a large, urban, multi-campus community college district revealed four district goals: serving new clientele, strengthening developmental education, retaining students, and…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Faculty College Relationship
Baldauf, Richard B., Jr.; Propst, Ivan K., Jr. – 1981
This paper assesses the effectiveness of readability indices, standard cloze procedure, and the matching cloze procedure as determinants of the readability of supplementary English materials for elementary ESL students in a Pacific Island context. A review of readability indices and the standard cloze procedure indicated that neither procedure is…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
O'Connell, Agnes N. – 1980
Recent research on the effects of women's studies courses has indicated that there are two general approaches to teaching: a concern for competence or mastery and a concern for personal change and advocacy. It was hypothesized that students taking a psychology of women course would become more androgynous and masculine in sex-role concept, more…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Assertiveness, Attitude Change, College Students
Hom, Willard – 2000
Community colleges must often analyze and report rates for outcomes, such as transfer to four-year colleges. A single, summary rate may be an invalid measure of its achievement in the transfer goal if the summary rate ignores the real difference in enrollment composition at different institutions. California's community colleges embody a very…
Descriptors: Age, Causal Models, College Outcomes Assessment, Community Colleges
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Stahl, Robert J.; And Others – 1980
This report explores the status of the teaching of psychology as a separate course on the pre-college level and examines the nature of the differences between urban-suburban and rural teachers, their courses, and their classes. One hundred sixty-two urban-suburban and 166 rural school teachers in Illinois were surveyed via questionnaires. Students…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Course Content, Course Objectives, Courses
Elliot, Jack – 1989
Despite increasing graduation requirements and the limited vocational offerings in rural schools, many rural high school students still enroll in vocational education courses. This study examined factors influencing the decisions of rural Ohio high school students to select vocational education courses. In spring 1988, an interview and…
Descriptors: Course Selection (Students), Grade 10, High Schools, Rural Education
Keller, Mike; And Others – 1989
Data are presented on the characteristics of community college transfer students who earned baccalaureate degrees in Maryland between 1981 and 1987. Tables and graphs cover the transfer status (i.e., native, community college transfer, four-year college transfer, or out-of-state transfer) of baccalaureate recipients, of graduates who were Maryland…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bachelors Degrees, College Graduates, College Transfer Students
Lawrence, Janet H.; And Others – 1990
This study attempted to: (1) identify differences, among full-time academic faculty in eight disciplines and five major institutional types, regarding their goals for classroom instruction, their assumptions about undergraduate students and the conditions under which students learn best, and their teaching practices; and (2) determine which of the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Full Time Faculty, Higher Education
Ezell, Annette Schram – 1979
An Institutional Goals Inventory (IGI) is used to assess a health science subsystem within a Western statewide higher educational system. Institutional goals are defined as ideal conditions the institution can continuously seek to maximize or perfect. Data were collected from each college and campus responsible for health science education and for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Allied Health Occupations Education, College Planning, College Role
McConnell, Beverly – 1979
Two major evaluations of bilingual education differed significantly in evaluation design and results. The American Institute for Research (AIR) conducted the national impact study for bilingual education and gathered data from many programs. AIR based its study on comparisons of mathematics and language arts achievement of students in bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Comparative Testing, Control Groups, Curriculum
Detweiler, John S. – 1980
Because public relations (PR) writing is different from the writing required in journalism, broadcasting, and advertising, PR practitioners require a background in editing, graphics, planning, campaigning, special events, public opinion, and evaluation beyond that required of a newswriter. Responses to a survey of 38 PR educators across the nation…
Descriptors: Career Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Expository Writing
Carter, Meredith L. – 1979
Administrators from 32 public two-year community colleges were surveyed to reveal the extent to which Management by Objectives (MBO) programs affected organizational conditions; 200 questionnaires (71%) were returned. Approximately 65% of the administrators indicated that the MBO system did not change the amount of formal contact between superior…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Responsibility, College Administration
Katsinas, Steve – 1984
An overview is provided of Hispanic enrollment and staffing patterns in U.S. community colleges. After an initial discussion of changes taking place in postsecondary education, information on the low participation rates of Hispanics in higher education is presented; e.g., in 1978 Hispanics made up 6% of the population of the mainland United…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Affirmative Action, Community Colleges
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