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Student Learning and Instructor Investment in Online and Face-to-Face Natural Resources Courses
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Wuellner, Melissa R. – Natural Sciences Education, 2013
Substantial growth in online education in the United States has prompted questions on the levels of student learning and satisfaction achieved and the amount of instructor time investment required in the online environment compared to the face-to-face (F2F) environment. To date, very few have studied these measurements in science courses, and none…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Distance Education, Online Courses, Classroom Environment
Regulated Autonomy or Autonomous Regulation? Collective Bargaining and Academic Workloads in Australian Universities
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Lyons, Michael; Ingersoll, Louise – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2010
The recommendations of the "Bradley Review" of higher education in Australia identified a clear need for examination of the academic labour market and the limited attractiveness of academia as a profession. Reasons for the lack of attractiveness include increased academic workloads, as evidenced by larger class sizes and staff-student…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Labor Market, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Retention of School-Based SLPs: Relationships among Caseload Size, Workload Satisfaction, Job Satisfaction, and Best Practice
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Hutchins, Tiffany L.; Howard, Malinda; Prelock, Patricia A.; Belin, Gayle – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2010
Nationally, the shortage of speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in the schools is growing. As such, it is important to understand factors related to the retention of SLPs in this setting. This study expanded on previous research by examining a wider range of factors that may be related to the retention of SLPs including caseload size, workload…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Speech Language Pathology, School Holding Power, Faculty Workload
Incentives and Effort in the Public Sector: Have U.S. Education Reforms Increased Teachers' Work Hours? NBER Working Paper No. 11970
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Stoddard, Christiana; Kuhn, Peter – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2006
Beyond some contracted minimum, salaried workers' hours are largely chosen at the worker's discretion and should respond to the strength of contract incentives. Accordingly, we consider the response of teacher hours to accountability and school choice laws introduced in U.S. public schools over the past two decades. Total weekly hours of full-time…
Descriptors: School Choice, Public Schools, Accountability, Educational Change
Who Dares to Disconnect in the Age of Uncertainty? Teachers' Recesses and "Off-the-Clock" Work
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Lindqvist, Per; Nordanger, Ulla Karin – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2006
This article addresses teachers' use of their professional time. With the support of substantive grounded theories from two separate studies--focusing on two "invisible" parts of teachers' work: recesses and off-the-clock work--we aim to conceptualize some patterns in contemporary work of teachers and discuss them in the light of…
Descriptors: Teaching Load, Working Hours, Grounded Theory, Teaching Conditions
Junior College Teacher Load Index. A Method for Measuring Teaching Load. Form H.
Starrett, George S. – 1970
The Teacher Load Index, a simplified method of comparing the teaching load of individuals in the California junior and community colleges, is presented in this report. First, the load measurement problem is addressed, revealing the inadequacies of the Credit Unit and the Weekly Student Contact Hour systems for measuring teacher load. Then, a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Compensation (Remuneration), Computation