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Cameron, Susan M. – 1978
The possible sponsorship/career success relationship among university male and female faculty is investigated. Focus is on the effects this sponsorship process has in later career success as measured by publication rate, grants received, rate of professional collaboration, and professional network involvement. A sample of 133 faculty members (64…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Career Opportunities, College Faculty, Females
Gueths, James – 1978
The Oshkosh Calendar Plan is described as resembling traditional calendars in many ways but altering institutional operations to permit the restructuring of time to meet the unique needs of learners, the logic of course content, and the professional interests of faculty. The advantages of this modular calendar are discussed. The Oshkosh Faculty…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Curriculum Development, Faculty Development, Higher Education
National Inst. of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. Education and Work Group. – 1977
The 1977-78 program plan is presented for the National Institute of Education (NIE) Education and Work Group, which sponsors research on the nature of the relationship between schooling and work and develops programs which aim at increasing the ability of youth and adults to choose, enter, and progress in careers without regard to the barriers…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Education, Career Education, Educational Research
Buck, John L.; And Others – 1976
A cognitive appraisal of threat is believed to intervene between the appearance of a stressful stimulus and a stress reaction to the stimulus. The effect of a "rational" treatment on the appraisal of threat is investigated. Five groups of 13 college students each heard one of five treatment orientations before viewing slides showing the victims of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Affective Behavior, Cognitive Processes, College Students
Berlowitz, Marvin J.; Durand, Henry – 1976
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that the disproportionate number of poor, minority, and working class students represented among the population of "school dropouts" are, objectively, the victims of an institutional syndrome of systematic exclusion referred to as "the student pushout" phenomenon. Cincinnati's junior…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Delinquency Causes, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Research
Tittle, Carol K.; Denker, Elenor R. – 1975
Opportunities and barriers in post secondary education for the mature woman are the focus of the first part of this review. Barriers including college restrictions, family resistance, and financial problems as well as attitudinal and self-concept characteristics are discussed. Opportunities are presented in a review of counseling considerations…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Colleges, Counseling Services, Females
Hunt, Barbara, Comp.; Gray, Judy, Comp. – 1979
This 142-item annotated bibliography, limited to documents announced in Resources in Education from April 1978 to January 1979, cites reports generated directly or indirectly by 47 large school districts in the United States and Canada. The reports include descriptions and evaluations of career education, compensatory, bilingual, special…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Programs, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Gibbons, Frederick X.; Gibbons, Barbara N. – 1979
The effects of labels, "mentally retarded" and "institutionalized" on the evaluations and causal attributions of nonretarded persons, and on the social distance preferences of EMR persons, were assessed. In addition, each group was asked to predict the likelihood of a labeled (mentally retarded) or a nonlabeled target person achieving success at a…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Expectation
Taggart, Robert – 1981
The Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 provided more than two hundred million dollars annually for a range of research, evaluation, and demonstration activities intended to increase understanding of the employment problems of youth and to help determine the most effective policies and programs to address these problems. The…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs
Arthur, Patricia, Ed. – 1980
This compilation of approximately 250 document resumes provides educators with abstracts of research, instructional, and other materials in vocational and technical education, and abstracts of funded research and development proposals. The resumes are arranged in ascending order according to an ED (ERIC Document) accession number, with each resume…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, Career Education
Illinois Univ., Urbana. Dept. of Vocational and Technical Education. – 1981
The purpose of phase 3 of Project IMPACT (a project to assess the impact of vocational education research and development on vocational education programs in Illinois) was to review, further conceptualize, and refine the impact assessment system for vocational education research and development efforts proposed during fiscal 1989. The following…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Evaluation Methods, Guidelines, Needs Assessment
Beck, Isabel L.; And Others – 1980
This report presents the rationale and design of a vocabulary program created as the instrument for research exploring the relationship between vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension. The first section of the report reviews the current state of the art of vocabulary instruction and discusses the techniques used in two commercial basal…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Content Analysis, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
Dobrovolny, Jacqueline L. – 1981
A project examined the role of the technical education instructor in the implementation and long-term utilization of a learning strategies program designed to improve the skills of military technical training students. The study revealed that teacher participation in learning strategies research implementation produced significant benefits,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Strategies, Military Training, Research Projects
Tornebohm, HaKan; And Others – 1980
Perspectives on interdisciplinary research are considered in terms of project planning, the choice of problem-solving approach, the research field, project organization, informal organization, and integration of knowledge. Interdisciplinary studies were investigaged through following a number of research projects by means of field trips,…
Descriptors: Coordination, Foreign Countries, Group Dynamics, Higher Education
Darche-Park, Cynthia; Lujan, Jaime – 1981
A one-year collaboration research project between San Diego State University and the Sweetwater Union High School District was carried out to test the notion that teachers of limited English-speaking students can effectively carry out research pertinent to them. It included 20 teachers, 16 student teachers assigned to them, two university…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Cooperative Programs, Educational Researchers, Higher Education
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