High school seniors completed questionnaires measuring work intensity, or amount of time spent at work, and several behaviors and attitudes. Found correlations between work intensity and problem behaviors. These correlations were diminished, but not eliminated, when indicators of demographic background and educational success were controlled for.…

The Speech-Language Pathologist Stress Inventory is a 48-item questionnaire adapted from the Teacher Stress Inventory. Factor analyses of the responses of 626 speech-language pathologists revealed 4 stress source factors: bureaucratic restrictions, time and workload management, lack of professional supports, and instructional limitations. (DB)

This article describes reasons why strategic planning in academe may fail (e.g., the president does not assume the role of chief planner) and why other efforts succeed (e.g., a realistic timetable for results is set). Leadership, communication, involvement, training, timing, and concern for the individual as well as the organization are stressed.…

Describes a North Carolina elementary principal's efforts to turn around two schools by adopting the Dunn and Dunn Learning Styles Model. The first school succeeded by recruiting all teachers, using small-group techniques, redesigning classroom space, and developing hands-on math materials for each grade level. Both teacher and administrator…

Newly hired school business officials should first review their job descriptions and work with supervisors to identify goals and clarify job expectations. They should plan how to manage their time, examine subordinates' job descriptions, review the district's fiscal history, join professional associations, fraternize with key local and state…

Scrutinizes an academic lecture in the subsequent question and answer period in order to decompose the speech roles associated with this speech event and to increase understanding of the factors influencing the participants and the event in order to design a useful framework for language teaching. (14 references) (Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse for…

Aspects of the socialization process that most affect the daily lives of adolescents and how parental attitudes are related to these aspects were studied with 173 German and 135 Japanese high school students and 76 German and 95 Japanese parents. Differences in socializing contexts, adolescents' use of time, and parental attitudes are discussed.…

Discussion of self-direction in adult education, andragogy, and open learning focuses on a study that examined ways in which new students adjusted to part-time study in Hong Kong. Highlights include results of interviews with students; personal autonomy; time management; developing study skills; and assistance towards self-direction. (Author/LRW)

Do the "new economy" and "information age" really exist? Effects of the railroad and telephone fell far short of those predicted. The psychology of human behavior may not have changed much. One must maintain a healthy skepticism about predictions concerning any new technology's influence and long-range significance. (MLH)

Even though endorsements of written collection development policies abound in the professional literature, many academic libraries do not have them in place. Interviews with several Louisiana librarians reveal possible reasons for that disparity. Instead of spending time devising policies that quickly become inflexible and outdated, bibliographers…

Describes a three-month study of a family reunification program for abused and neglected children that explored the process and outcomes of service delivery. The coding scheme measured both the time used in and purposes of activities of the service workers. Discusses the implications of this method for practice, planning, and research. (TM)

Discusses Internet use by undergraduate students at the University of Strathclyde (United Kingdom) to develop research evaluation skills through independent research. Highlights include what students used the Internet for; how often they used it; time absorbed by access; rating the Internet; student views; and access to the Internet. (LRW)

A study evaluated the effects of instruction in a comprehensive, independent assignment completion strategy on homework completion rates and the quality of products completed in response to assignments given in general education classrooms. Eight of nine students mastered use of the strategy and their homework completion rates and products…

To examine the impact of school incentive programs on children's time allocation, this article reports the authors' investigation of time-use data collected in two Bangladeshi villages in 1992, 1995, and 1996; in-depth interviews conducted in 1995; responses to two village censuses collected in 1992 and 1995; and data from an education survey…

The authors extend the standard education production function and student time allocation analysis to focus on the interactions between student effort and performance over the semester. The purged instrumental variable technique is used to obtain consistent estimators of the structural parameters of the model using data from intermediate…