This report describes selected characteristics of child care administrators practicing in Texas and attempts to ascertain if these child care administrators have specific training preferences and/or needs. The administrator characteristics addressed were categorized as follows: (1) general demographic information, (2) types of child care…

Objectives of this master's thesis were to analyze the status of existing day care centers at state supported colleges and universities in Florida in terms of purposes, funding, policies and policy making, staffing, program content for children, training experiences offered to college students and benefits of the center to the sponsoring…

The grades earned by all students registered for credit classes in the seven Hawaii community colleges were analyzed to determine student grade point averages by college program and the distribution of grades in courses offered by the colleges. This analysis revealed that: (1) the credits-earned rate was 71%; (2) these rates were higher for…

A study was undertaken to gather a body of comprehensive data concerning the trustees serving the 19 Kansas community college districts that are governed by local boards. A 22-item questionnaire elicited information on characteristics such as sex, age, ethnic origin, occupation, educational level, years of service as a board member, length of…

Faculty salary and workload data for 1978-1979 are presented as determined by a survey of the 70 California community college districts. Tables in Section I of the report provide district and statewide information on: (1) the number and percent of full-time and part-time faculty; (2) the salaries paid for full-time instructors in 1978-1979, the…

This paper reports on a survey of Indiana public secondary educator perceptions of student discipline problems. An extensive list of specific student misbehaviors are rated by respondents answering the following four questions. Which misbehaviors are problems in the area of discipline? How often does each occur? How serious would it be when, or…

To assess the professional continuing education needs of persons employed full-time in administering, directing, leading, organizing, or planning leisure services, a questionnaire was mailed to 1,640 leisure service professionals throughout Wisconsin (50% return). Groups surveyed (and for which data was analyzed separately) included people…

A two-year informational study was conducted to determine characteristics of the present full-time equivalent (FTE) system of funding in the state of Colorado. Its objectives were (1) to analyze flow of state and federal dollars to the program level within the four delivery systems of postsecondary vocational education, (2) to analyze total…

For use in planning high school vocational education programs, a study examined the success of Georgia vocational cluster programs in finding jobs, the adequacy of program training, and student attitudes towards the cluster approach. (The cluster concept involves broadly defined instructional programs around families of occupations.) The study…

In 1978, there were almost 150,000 apprentices in the United States; 4 percent were women and 19 percent were members of minority groups. At the same time, there were more than two million union members in this country; 11 percent were women and 24 percent were members of minorities, according to the 1978 Equal Employment Opportunities Commission…

A survey of the academic, vocational, and technical students enrolled at Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College (MGCJC) during Fall 1979 was conducted as a contribution to the Educational Intent component of Mississippi's state-wide student information system. The survey instrument, administered during registration, solicited information concerning…

Iowa legislators responded to the national accountability trend in 1975 by mandating a statewide needs assessment. This paper examines the activities of fifteen selected districts in terms of: (1) a statistical analysis of community, teacher, and student rankings of eighteen cognitive and affective educational goals; (2) statistical analysis of…

A study was conducted to determine how a representative sample of Iowa elementary school teachers viewed a number of research-supported and nonsupported teaching procedures in spelling. In addition, the study was designed to ascertain the degree to which this representative sample of teachers was utilizing or not utilizing selected…

Objectives of a study to provide empirical evidence of the effectiveness of vocational education training were (l) to identify the type of employment engaged in by graduates of secondary vocational programs initially, six months, and one year after graduation, and determine if this employment was related to the individuals' vocational training,…

This is the first of four volumes reporting phase 2 of a two-phase project to examine the competency-based vocational teacher education movement and analyze the current state of the art (phase 1), and to assess the implications for preservice, inservice, and leadership level professional development programs in career and occupational education in…