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Gage, N. L.; And Others – 1980
This report contains highlights of findings and major conclusions of a task force investigating the impact of research, development, and field activities of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). The various data gathering activities and their results are summarized in Section A. Data collection efforts involved questionnaires sent…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
Slawski, Carl – 1981
A detailed list of questions for writing one's autobiography as a college teacher are presented, and suggestions for synthesizing the fragments of one's working life with several devices for self-improvement are offered. The list of questions was derived from some general systems research models of career development and the learning relationship.…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, College Environment, College Faculty, Cultural Context
McMaster, Anne – 1982
A follow-up study of Mercer County Community College (MCCC) graduates was conducted in 1981 to ascertain their current employment status, educational activities, and opinions of their study program at MCCC and how it related to their educational and/or occupational experiences. Surveys were mailed to 519 graduates and a response rate of 45% was…
Descriptors: College Graduates, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship
Baron, Richard L.; And Others – 1980
This paper provides a description of the Program Manager Workshop, a skill-based management training workshop for managers of group homes. The workshop is an extension of the Teaching-Family Model of Community Based Care, a model used in residential treatment homes for persons experiencing problems such as delinquency, retardation, mental illness,…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrators, Decision Making, Evaluation
Huffman, Ruth E.; And Others – 1979
This module, Occupational Knowledge, is one of five from Project DECIDE, which was created to design, develop, write, and implement materials to provide adult basic education administrators, instructors, para-professionals, and other personnel with curriculum to accompany the Indiana Adult Basic Education Curriculum Guide, "Learning for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Career Counseling, Competency Based Education, Employment Interviews
Moracco, John C.; And Others – 1981
This study sought to determine some effects that stress has on teachers and if there were differences between the stress experienced by regular classroom teachers and the stress experienced by special education teachers. Subjects were elementary and secondary school teachers. The survey instrument used was the Teacher Occupational Stress Factor…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Characteristics, Interpersonal Relationship
Divilbiss, J. L., Ed. – 1981
Eight studies by experts in the field of information retrieval examine aspects of public use of such automated systems as online catalogs in libraries. Ward Shaw discusses "Design Principles for Public Access," outlining desirable characteristics of an information retrieval system. Allen Avner and H. George Friedman, Jr. treat problems…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Consumer Economics, Disabilities, Information Retrieval
Plihal, Jane – 1981
This research addressed three questions about the rewards of teaching: (1) how do teachers describe intrinsically rewarding teaching experiences; (2) how do the rewards of teaching relate to teachers' perceptions of the teaching activity; and (3) how does enjoyment of teaching relate to student achievement. Thirty elementary school teachers were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Job Satisfaction
Bess, James L. – 1981
Recent theories of professional work satisfaction are reviewed and applied to the college or university professor. Additionally, the professional satisfactions available to the academic person are compared with those of professionals in other occupations. The following theories of job satisfaction are examined: job facets theory, expectancy…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Higher Education, Job Satisfaction, Need Gratification
Cohen, Edward G. – 1980
In Spring 1980, Queensborough Community College (QCC) decided to participate in the Reentry Adult Student Program, a project to assist colleges in obtaining information on adult students' needs and objectives. Three survey instruments were used: (1) a survey of student needs, which consisted of 76 items focusing on academic survival skills,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Employee Attitudes, Participant Satisfaction, Questionnaires
Herman, Joan L.; Yeh, Jennie P. – 1980
Although parent involvement has become a focal concern of American schools, little research has investigated the effects of involving parents in education. Data from the California's Early Childhood Education (ECE) program was analyzed to examine the relationships between various aspects of parent involvement and their effects on parent…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Decision Making, Family School Relationship, Individual Power
Yin, Robert K.; Gwaltney, Margaret K. – 1981
Three case studies of interorganizational collaboration between regional education agencies (REAs) and school districts illustrate how successful knowledge utilization occurs. Researchers studied how knowledge utilization services in four areas--staff development, linking agent assistance, information retrieval, and broad organizational…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Government School Relationship
Hawaii Univ., Honolulu. Community Coll. System. – 1979
A survey was administered to all 2,640 1977-78 graduates of the Hawaii community college system. General, academic, and employment information, as well as a general evaluation of the college experience, were elicited and a 59% response rate was achieved. There were statistically significant differences between respondents and non-respondents on…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Experience, Educational Objectives, Employment Patterns
Dunbar, Zola, Ed. – 1977
This report summarizes the two statewide staff development workshops that were conducted for faculties of Oregon colleges and universities participating in a consortium project designed to infuse career education into the preparation of teachers, counselors, and administrators. (Three previous workshops are reported in CE 019 416.) Included in…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Career Education, College Faculty, Consortia
Stapleton, James C. – 1979
Since acts of teacher brinkmanship were considered to represent an expression of the teachers' dissatisfaction with the teachers' role, it was conjectured in this study that a relationship should exist between teachers' attitudes toward teacher brinkmanship and the teachers' job satisfaction. Two instruments, the Teacher Job Satisfaction Inventory…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Factor Analysis, Job Satisfaction, Measurement Instruments
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