Determining acceptable practices in maintaining personnel files is a pertinent issue for school personnel administrators today. Recognizing this, the Georgia Association of School Personnel Administrators accepted the study of this topic as a committee assignment from the American Association of School Personnel Administrators. A survey instrument…

Part of a series of statistical reports on public broadcasting, this publication is based on data supplied by public television and CPB-qualified public radio stations in a survey of CPB-qualified public radio programming by category. This report is the first study of its kind on public radio content, and the data represent a sample of an entire…

A SURVEY OF SALARIES PAID IN 26 KEY OCCUPATIONS WORKING WITH THE BLIND WAS CONDUCTED BY THE BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS IN 1966 (VT 003 405). THIS PUBLICATION INTERPRETS THE MAJOR FINDINGS OF THAT STUDY. OF 11,000 PERSONS GIVING DIRECT SERVICE TO THE BLIND, ABOUT HALF WERE IN PROFESSIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS. ANNUAL SALARIES OF ELEMENTARY…

DATA AND CHARTS DOCUMENT THE RISING NUMBER OF WORKING MOTHERS IN THE UNITED STATES TODAY AND THE INCREASING NEED FOR CHILD CARE SERVICES. DATA WERE OBTAINED FROM U.S. DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, COMMERCE, AND HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE. NEARLY 10 MILLION MOTHERS WITH CHILDREN UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE WERE WORKERS IN MARCH 1966. MORE THAN ONE OF THREE…

IN 1948 THE BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS INSTITUTED A PROGRAM OF SURVEYS IN WHICH OCCUPATIONS COMMON TO A VARIETY OF MANUFACTURING AND NONMANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES WERE STUDIED ON A COMMUNITYWIDE BASIS. THE EARLIER STUDIES WERE LIMITED TO OFFICE WORKERS BUT WERE EXPANDED BY 1951 TO INCLUDE PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL, MAINTENANCE AND POWER PLANT, AND…

ON THE BASIS OF EMPLOYEE SURVEYS AND IN-PLANT RESEARCH, THE TOTAL COST OF DISCRIMINATION TO AMERICAN BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY IN ACTUAL DOLLARS IS ESTIMATED AT ROUGHLY $30 BILLION ANNUALLY. DISCRIMINATION IN INDUSTRY BEGINS AT THE HIRING GATE WHERE MINORITY GROUPS ARE REFUSED EMPLOYMENT BECAUSE OF RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, NATIONALITY, POLITICAL…

A SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED OF 93 SCHOOLS WHICH OFFERED FOREIGN-LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN 10 MAJOR CITIES. THESE SCHOOLS WERE SELF-SUPPORTING AND NOT INCLUDED IN SUCH ACADEMIC CATEGORIES AS COLLEGES, PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS, AND PRIVATE PREPARATORY SCHOOLS. INFORMATION ON THE STUDY OF LANGUAGES FOREIGN TO AMERICANS WERE GATHERED BY INTERVIEWS WITH EACH…

A SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED OF LANGUAGE ENROLLMENTS OF 1,278 INDEPENDENT SECONDARY SCHOOLS WHICH (1) OFFERED INSTRUCTION LEADING TO GRADUATION FROM SECONDARY SCHOOL AND (2) OFFERED A COURSE IN A LANGUAGE IN GRADES 9-12. THE DISCUSSION OF THE REPORT COVERED SUMMARY OF DATA AND ANALYSIS OF STATISTICAL TABLES. THE FINDINGS INDICATED THAT ENROLLMENTS IN…

MODERN LANGUAGE ENROLLMENT DATA WERE PRESENTED DEALING WITH 4-YEAR INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION FOR THE FALL OF 1960. A COMPARISON WAS MADE OF THE TOTAL ENROLLMENTS OF 1958 AND 1959, WHICH SHOWED AN INCREASE OF 27.8 PERCENT OVER THE PREVIOUS 2 YEARS. INCLUDED WERE DISCUSSIONS OF (1) NATIONAL DATA, (2) BREAKDOWN BY LANGUAGES, (3) STATISTICAL…

SEVERAL ASPECTS OF THE TEACHING AND STUDY OF MODERN LANGUAGES IN HIGHER EDUCATION WERE SURVEYED, SUCH AS (1) DEGREES AWARDED IN 1958-59, (2) MAJORS ENROLLED IN THE FALL OF 1959, (3) AVAILABILITY AND USE OF LANGUAGE LABORATORIES, RESIDENTIAL HOUSES, AND PROGRAMS ABROAD, AND (4) CURRICULUMS AND STAFFING TRENDS. QUESTIONNAIRES WERE ADDRESSED TO…

A NATIONAL SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE PERTAINING TO POLICIES AND PROCEDURES OF TEACHER SELECTION WAS SENT TO OVER 380 LARGE SCHOOL SYSTEMS ACROSS THE NATION. ONLY THOSE SYSTEMS HAVING AN ENROLLMENT OF AT LEAST 12,000 STUDENTS WERE INCLUDED. COMPARISONS WERE MADE WITH RESPECT TO SCHOOL SYSTEM SIZE, TEACHER SELECTION RATE, TEACHER TURNOVER RATE, AND…

Three questions are discussed: (1) what approach will be taken to gain and maintain access to school districts and schools to administer assessment instruments? (2) what procedures should be employed in the difficult and complex task of gaining access to nonstudents (age 17)? and (3) what problems are likely to be encountered in doing this? Access…

As part of a national assessment of speech communication education in secondary schools, a 1979 survey was conducted in 336 Indiana schools. Typically, the basic speech course offered in Indiana high schools was an elective, one semester course covering a combination of topics, including public speaking, interpersonal communication, debate,…

The document reports results of a survey involving 4,427 community residential facilities (CRFs) for mentally retarded individuals. The report is divided into four major sections: Part I includes a review of the status of CRFs prior to the 1977 survey; Part II describes the methods and procedures used in conducting the survey; Part III presents…

The purpose of this study was to provide data which described the current state of the art in the management of student teaching in agricultural education on a nationwide basis. Seventy-two teacher education institutions responded to a twelve-item instrument designed to determine how student teaching was managed. The results indicated a wide range…