This paper begins by discussing a National Institute of Education report (NIE, 1984) which was compiled by the study group on the conditions of excellence in American higher education and which focused on student involvement, higher expectations, and assessment and feedback. The NIE report is presented as a framework which academic professionals…

This paper examines colleges of education from a cultural rather than the more formal organizational or structural perspective. Culture is defined as the pattern of basic assumptions that a group has invented, discovered, or developed in learning to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration that have worked well enough…

With America's growing commitment to global education and intercultural understanding, one option for reading foreign literature is to study the text from a cross-cultural perspective, decoding the cultural assumptions both in the work and in the reader's perceptions of that work. Contrasting elements of the French and American value systems, of…

This study sought to determine the perceptions of preservice student teachers, cooperating teachers, and faculty supervisors regarding their roles and responsibilities. A total of 337 students, 38 faculty members, and 169 cooperating teachers responded to a questionnaire which elicited perceptions about role specific practicum activities connected…

Although there has been much interest in the United States about Japanese education, few studies have examined the Japanese school system from the teachers' perspective. This study investigated 143 Japanese and 386 U.S. high school teachers' attitudes concerning their work conditions, roles and responsibilities, and work experiences. An…

The views of 31 college presidents and 29 faculty officers concerning good faculty leadership were studied with a national sample of respondents during 1986-1987. The analysis was part of interviews with persons holding formal leadership positions in a sample of 32 institutions, 8 each of major research/doctoral institutions, state colleges and…

A three-phase study spanned five areas of interest: (1) the school as organization and social system, (2) roles and role behavior in organizations, (3) communication structure in organizations, (4) network analysis concepts, and (5) Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior (FIRO-B). In phase one of the study, staff members listed…

Sensations of burnout have a great deal to do with societal issues and the way that society defines the self concept of individuals. When people do not feel as societal values dictate, they often begin to sense disappointment in themselves, their life styles, and what they are receiving from people around them in the form of approval, praise, or…

Within a theoretical framework of role theory and systems theory, this study investigates differences in role expectations held for school psychologists in IGE schools by principals, unit leaders, teachers and school psychologists; and the relationship between agreement on expectations and ratings of the performance effectiveness of school…

The purpose of this study was to examine the role expectations and role adequacy of classroom teachers in art, music, and physical education programs in selected schools, as well as teacher perceptions of the specialists' roles in these subjects. Two different staffing arrangements were examined: (1) schools employing consultants in art, music,…

This research project delving into sex differences in adolescents' orientations and expectations as regards education utilizes surveys of high school students. The data indicate that both adolescent girls and boys hold the same average post high school plans and receive similar messages from their parents concerning educational aspirations.…

This paper reports on the results of a survey on inservice teacher education. Three primary groups were surveyed: teachers, professors, and parents of school children. There was unanimous agreement between the three groups that there is not enough inservice currently provided to teachers. However, there was wide variation of opinion on what the…

The purpose of this project was to study the relationship of certain organizational variables (standardization, formalization, and centralization) to curriculum innovation. It was hypothesized that increasing the formalization of curriculum guidelines and the standardization of curriculum procedures would lead to a decrease in role ambiguity and…

In order to determine if -- assuming that the teacher's role as an authority figure is different in the open classroom than in the traditional classroom -- classroom arrangement affects students' attitudes toward governmental authority figures, a questionnaire was administered to public elementary school children from a suburban school in a large…