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Furniss, W. Todd – 1984
Recommendations for faculty members who are secure in their positions are offered to promote career alternatives beyond those prescribed by their institution. The recommendations cover the implementation and operation of self-help organizations. A survey of faculty members found that faculty members were almost completely dependent on their…
Descriptors: Career Development, College Faculty, Employment Opportunities, Entrepreneurship
Foster, Jocelyn – 1984
This collection of library documents, which illustrates current techniques for conducting user studies in order to facilitate specific public services planning and priority-setting efforts at the member libraries of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), contains excerpts from: (1) four general user studies conducted at the University of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Library Automation
Haughey, Margaret; Murphy, Peter J. – 1983
To discover how rural teachers in British Columbia felt about the quality of their work life, researchers surveyed all 1,148 teachers in the 242 elementary and secondary British Columbia schools that met the project's definition of "rural." Questionnaires, returned by 528 teachers (46%) were divided into five major areas: work…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Mobility, Foreign Countries
Love, Kevin G.; And Others – 1983
Job stress is recognized as a primary roadblock to achieving job satisfaction. In order to investigate the linkage between important job characteristics and stressor levels, 378 factory supervisors (aged 45-54; 89 percent male; 93 percent white with an average of 21 years with the company) completed a two-part job analysis questionnaire. In the…
Descriptors: Job Analysis, Job Satisfaction, Management Development, Predictor Variables
Roberts, Adrian R.; Garg, Devendra P. – 1983
The use of an electronic feedback system, the Anonymous Audience Response System (AARS), in educational decision making is described, and the results of use studies in North Carolina are discussed. The AARS insures anonymity of an individual participant's responses, and at the same time, provides immediate feedback of the group's collective…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Computer Oriented Programs, Display Systems, Educational Planning
Edwards, Sara A. – 1982
This report is one in a series presenting findings from a major multi-site investigation into clinical preservice teacher education. The larger study makes available an in-depth description of participants, practice, and outcomes of the student teaching experience in two settings. This report presents, through three selected case studies, one…
Descriptors: Cooperating Teachers, Higher Education, Individual Characteristics, Participant Satisfaction
Welch, Jeanie M. – 1984
This paper describes the development of online bibliographic searching at Lamar University, a state-supported university in Beaumont, Texas, and the results of a 1983 users' survey evaluating satisfaction with online searching services. Online searching is defined and its advantages and disadvantages are briefly outlined. The equipment used in…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Costs, Databases, Graphs
Fleisher, Dorothy; Kaplan, Barbara H. – 1982
Project LINC (Living Independently through Neighborhood Cooperation) was a three year demonstration project designed to enable older people to remain in independent living by strengthening their neighborhood-based informal support systems. To determine if LINC met its goals and reached the elderly population it was designed for, a pre- and…
Descriptors: Gerontology, Helping Relationship, High Risk Persons, Home Programs
Henson, Kenneth T. – 1980
People resist change out of force of habit, out of fear, and out of hopelessness. Contemporary educators must find ways to overcome each and all of these barriers. A definite plan is needed in advance of any major program change. A good plan should always include: (1) a time schedule that capitalizes on events outside the school, using them as…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Change Agents, Change Strategies, Educational Administration
Romsa, Gerald; Bondy, Patricia – 1983
The hypothesis of this 1982 study of retirees in the city of Windsor (Canada) is that retired persons with the fewest housing constraints should exhibit a more active leisure behavior pattern and a higher expression of life satisfaction. To obtain the retirees' socioeconomic and demographic profile data, life histories, freetime activity patterns…
Descriptors: Housing, Leisure Time, Life Satisfaction, Older Adults
Pezeshki-Rad, Gholamreza; Zamani, Naser – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2005
Introduction: We report an investigation designed to explore the information-seeking behaviour of extension managers and specialists in Iran, and to identify the factors that correlate with this behaviour. Method: A questionnaire was developed to explore information-seeking behaviour of extension managers and specialists. The questionnaire was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Seeking, Extension Agents, Administrators
Hoffman, Margaret G. – 1989
In 1989, a study was conducted at Orange County Community College to measure the effectiveness of business training provided by the college's Institute for Business, Industry, and Government (IBIG). Between September 1988 and February 1989, IBIG offered 27 business training programs and 6 customized firm-specific programs. In May 1989, 80…
Descriptors: Business Education, Community Colleges, Followup Studies, Inservice Education
Staines, Graham L. – 1989
Flexible work schedules offer the promise of a low-cost option for helping people manage work and family responsibilities. Alternative work schedules include part-time work, job sharing, work sharing, shiftwork, compressed work week, flexitime, and flexiplace. Flexitime is the most prevalent full-time flexible schedule and is second in prevalence…
Descriptors: Adults, Employed Parents, Employer Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Boston. Div. of Occupational Education. – 1989
A mail survey was conducted in February 1989 of trainees who had completed the Massachusetts Chapter 74, five-course, 18-credit vocational-technical teacher training program in its revised and competency-based format. The survey was designed to assess trainees' satisfaction with the training program, to determine their perceptions of how well the…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Outcomes of Education, Participant Characteristics
Jorgensen, Jerry D.; And Others – 1989
A study examined supervisor-subordinate relationships and the congruity of communicative expectations and experiences to determine how congruity was affected by time. Subjects, 117 employees comprising 106 subordinates and 11 first-line supervisors, were surveyed as to communication expectations and experiences with self and with other, as well as…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Employer Employee Relationship, Expectation, Interpersonal Communication

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