The article is a literature review on cyberbullying from 2007-2013. Topics covered in the review have been categorized starting with definition of cyberbullying; roles of persons involved and statistics of who is being targeted; reasons for cyberbullying; differences between traditional bullying and cyberbullying; and gender comparisons related to…

Purpose: The main aim of this paper is to test the ways in which the role of high-technology services (HTS) in the economy of European Union (EU) member countries changes and the extent to which the development of HTS depends on the quality of human resources. Design/methodology/approach: The paper adopts comparative and cluster analysis of…

The purpose of the present study was to determine the influences of sex and sex-role identification on the perceived characteristics of a good manager. A sample of 335 students from various undergraduate and graduate business courses completed the Bem Sex-Role Inventory both for themselves and for a good manager. Three hypotheses were tested--that…

To determine changes in the perceptions of associate degree students in regard to their chosen occupational programs both upon their entrance into the technology programs and at the time of their graduation, questionnaires were administered in September 1970 to the 99 male freshmen in the 2-year engineering technology program. In April, 1972, the…

Beginning librarians and their supervisors on the eight campuses of the University of California were surveyed concerning the work expected of professional librarians. Information was gathered by the use of interviews, job descriptions, and a checklist of duties performed. It was found that there was a lack of clarity in defining the proper role…

A study was made to determine what library administrators think is the role of public libraries in retraining of adults, what libraries are doing to provide training, and how they differ when classified by size of population served. About 600 libraries serving populations of 50,000 or more were studied--age of library, location, branches, adult…

The procedure of item sampling was employed to reduce the time expenditure of participants when responding to a questionnaire concerned with the implementation of an innovative elementary school project. Approximately 50 student teachers and 42 regular classroom teachers responded to one of two forms of the questionnaire. There was a total of 103…

The results of a study of student and administrator attitudes at a private and a public university indicate that on policy, and other issues relevant to the campus community, the differences between students and administrators are perceptual rather than real, although students expected administrators to be more conservative than they really were.…

TO DETERMINE THE FACTORS RELATED TO FIRST-YEAR 4-H LEADERS' CONTINUING IN OR DROPPING OUT OF 4-H WORK AND TO ANALYZE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG CHARACTERISTICS OF A SAMPLE OF FIRST-YEAR 4-H LEADERS AND THE EVALUATION BY THEIR 4-H AGENTS OF JOBS PERFORMED AND NOT PERFORMED, IN 1961 QUESTIONNAIRES AND PERSONALITY TESTS WERE GIVEN TO 527 FIRST-YEAR 4-H…

A survey was made of the adult volunteers who are working in the Washington State rehabilitation program for offenders. A closed-end questionnaire was submitted to a sample of 220 volunteers to gather hard core data such as age, sex, marital status and also information on kind of work done, what their attitudes were toward the Washington…

The paper presents results of a needs assessment survey, involving 112 public school personnel, conducted to facilitate staff development programs aimed at furthering the integration of the roles of general and special education administrators. It is explained that the survey instrument, the Task-Role-Involvement Inventory, had two purposes--to…

This paper reports on a study conducted during the 1972-73 school year. The study aimed at providing facts, empirical evidence, feedback, and other forms of information to aid administrators and the professional staff in a self-assessment directed to the continued improvement of the Department's leadership potential. Although the study results…

A study was made to consider 19 possible attitudes of 4-H adult leaders, to learn what these leaders feel is their function, and to determine what training is needed to fulfill the functions of a 4-H leaders. Data consisted of previous related research and of questionnaire responses from 83 leaders in Johnson and Shelby Counties, Indiana. Leaders…

In a technologically advanced society, many of the dialogues take place within the "management information system," or as a result of the "hard data" acquired through such a system, rather than in a public forum. The absence of the Hispanic American from that type of systems dialogue can and does place unnecessary disadvantages on Hispanic…

This study examined perceptions and opinions of academic departmental chairmen in the University of Missouri regarding the participation of academic departments in continuing education (defined to include all off campus programs and all on campus noncredit programs). Major differences were sought, and found, between chairmen of high participation…