An examination of the university dean's role and its conflicts and ambiguities considered the type, frequency, nature, and the dynamics of the liberal arts dean's interactions with his faculty and staff and the central administration. Relations with staff and the provost and the dean's role as an individual in an organization are given major…

Following a discussion of the differences between oral and written speech, this paper examines the act of reading written speech and the role that contextual information plays in reading comprehension. It notes the interaction that occurs between reader and text, points out the way in which written language makes demands upon readers'…

This report documents an ethnographic study of desegregation in an inner city, polyethnic high school. The study focuses on the relationship between culture contact and the social organization of the school, employing three levels of analysis: the structural level, the level of role behavior, and the level of the individual social actor. A…

The implications of faculty bargaining for decisionmaking in four-year colleges and universities are examined in this analysis of research and other literature. Institutional variables are described using research from political science and sociology to explain more fully the dynamics, apart from faculty bargaining, that characterize colleges and…

The metropolitan university is viewed from the context of individual, group, and university level of social interaction. Metropolitan universities are defined as state-supported public universities located in urban areas and legislatively mandated as teaching institutions. Resources are usually dependent upon the number of full-time equivalent…

A study of third-year medical school discussion groups was undertaken to determine how much the cognitive level of instructors' questions in small group sessions influenced student responses and whether these responses had any measureable relationship to critical thinking skills, or National Board of Medical Examiner (NBME) scores. The research…

This document is a collection of nine papers, each of which recommends strategies for the implementation of multicultural education. Also examined are specific issues, including bidialectical education, learning styles, interpersonal skills training, and disproportionate minority discipline. (Authors)

SIX MAJOR ASPECTS OF EDUCATION AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT ARE ANALYZED WITHIN A GENERAL FRAMEWORK OF EDUCATION REGARDED AS A COMPLEX SOCIAL PROCESS. PART 1 CONSIDERS THE SOCIAL ASPECTS OF TEACHING AND LEARNING IN A CROSS-CULTURAL CONTEXT, CONTRASTING THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTS OF CHILDREN IN AN AMERICAN SUBURB, AN AMERICAN…

A SERIES OF STUDIES WERE MADE ON THE EFFECTS OF LABORATORY TRAINING IN HUMAN RELATIONS ON THE ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR OF "MIDDLE" MANAGERS. THROUGH REPEATED FACTOR ANALYSIS, THE ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR DESCRIBER SURVEY (OBDS) WAS DEVELOPED BY WHICH A MANAGER AND HIS ASSOCIATES COULD DESCRIBE HIS BEHAVIOR. THE OBDS PERMITTED RATINGS ON…

Limitations of past research on college teaching and a recent exploratory study are considered. The study focused on the degree to which teachers encourage, praise, or use student ideas; the degree to which teachers ask questions that encourage evaluative and divergent thinking; the degree to which students make higher levels of cognitive…

The paper discusses rationales for simulation gaming and describes "Spiegeldorf," a socio-historical game which simulates socioeconomic conditions in early 1930 Germany and Nazi party tactics used to gain mass support. Objectives are to identify characteristic Nazi tactics and points of political ideology, describe German social classes…

IN PROJECT I, A FREE ASSOCIATION TECHNIQUE WAS USED TO ANALYZE CHILDREN'S VOCABULARIES IN TERMS OF DERIVATIONS OF WORDS USED, THE RELATION OF WORD DERIVATIONS TO THE CHILD'S LANGUAGE LEARNING, AND THE EFFECTS OF DERIVATIONAL STRUCTURE ON COGNITION. IT WAS FOUND THAT "FREE" ASSOCIATIONS TEND TO OCCUR WITHIN "SETS" DEFINED BY WORD SOURCES. PROJECT…

This is the ninth in a series of general bibliographies which are being developed to disseminate information concerning documents analyzed at the ERIC Information Analysis Center for Science Education. Reported are over 100 citations to selected documents in the areas of (1) evaluation, (2) educational objectives, (3) learning theories and…

This research investigated the development of interracial interaction patterns among peers in a new open enrollment desegregated middle school. The student interaction analysis conducted for the study attempted to answer the following questions: Is race a significant determinant of the amount of student interaction? Does grade level or sex…

This report discusses the measurement of behavioral and attitudinal aspects of young children's socioemotional development and briefly describes a variety of instruments designed to measure such development. Information given for each instrument includes: author, source, variables examined, type of measure, age of children test is designed for,…