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Peer reviewedBlackburn, Robert T.; Mackie, Christopher J. – Review of Higher Education, 1992
A study investigated the test-retest reliability of critical faculty productivity measures used in a 1988 major national survey, "Faculty at Work." It further sought to explain reliability differences among items and item types, identify variables and constructs wrongly assumed to be stable over time, and examine implications for other…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Workload, Higher Education, Job Analysis
Blackburn, Robert T.; Lawrence, Janet H. – 1995
This book draws together empirical evidence on college and university faculty work, develops and tests a theoretical framework of faculty motivation to engage in different teaching, research, and service activities, and suggests how administrative practices can be improved so that faculty work lives are enriched and institutions become more…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Administrator Attitudes, College Faculty, College Instruction
Peer reviewedElmore, Charles J.; Blackburn, Robert T. – Journal of Higher Education, 1983
The comparative success of Black faculty in White research universities was studied. Findings reveal similarities between Black and White professors--in work effort, scholarly productivity, favorableness of the racial climate, and the endorsement of universalistic over particularistic reward standards. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Teachers, Career Development, College Faculty
Peer reviewedBlackburn, Robert T.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1991
A study compared selected personal and environmental motivational variables in college faculty with allocation of work effort to teaching. Faculty represented the disciplines of English, chemistry, and psychology and various institution types. Self-valuation and perception of the environment motivators significantly accounted for the explained…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Cognitive Psychology, College Faculty, College Instruction
Peer reviewedBlackburn, Robert T.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1991
A study compared selected personal and environmental motivational variables in college faculty with allocation of work effort to research, scholarship, and service. Faculty were from eight liberal arts and sciences departments in a range of institution types. For all institutional types, self-valuation motivators significantly accounted for the…
Descriptors: Biology, Chemistry, Cognitive Psychology, College Faculty
Lanning, Alan W.; Blackburn, Robert T. – 1978
A random sample of 8,009 research university professors' paid consulting work was examined from the local-cosmopolitan framework. Analysis of the results, using four levels of consulting (none, mild, moderate, active) showed that: (1) 54 percent devote some portion of their normal work week to consulting; (2) the most active consultants (about 5…
Descriptors: Age, Bibliographies, College Faculty, Consultants
