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Download full textLee, Barbara A. – 1978
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…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Arbitration, Bibliographies, Collective Bargaining
Fenton, Joann C. – 1978
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…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Environment, College Faculty, College Role
Foster, Patricia Joan – 1980
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…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Aptitude, Achievement Need, Clinical Experience
HARRISON, ROGER; OSHRY, BARRY – 1967
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…
Descriptors: Administrators, Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Behavior Rating Scales
Smith, Daryl G. – 1980
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…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Research, Cognitive Objectives, College Faculty
Gil, Doron; And Others – 1979
This report provides an overview of the research being conducted by the Clinical Studies Group of the Institute for Research on Teaching, whose research is designed to improve the instruction, evaluation, and performance of preservice and inservice reading diagnosticians. The first section of the report describes the use of an inquiry theory of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Clinical Diagnosis, Decision Making Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
Sprague, Gregory A. – 1978
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…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Games, Educational Objectives, European History
ERIC Information Analysis Center for Science Education, Columbus, OH. – 1968
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…
Descriptors: Achievement, Cognitive Development, College Science, Concept Formation
Schofield, Janet W.; Sagar, H. Andrew – 1977
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…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Blacks, Class Organization, Classroom Observation Techniques
Katz, Lilian G.; Jacobson, Elaine – 1978
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,…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Early Childhood Education, Emotional Development, Evaluation Methods
Rossell, Christine H. – 1975
The impact of school desegregation policy on community voting patterns and white flight in northern school districts is analyzed. Both voting behavior and white flight are considered two indicators of the success of school desegregation in achieving community social integration. School board elections, school tax referenda voting trends, and…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Desegregation Effects, Elections, Integration Studies
Mann, Marlis – 1974
This module, used in the Early Childhood-Special Education Teacher Preparation Program at the University of Virginia, describes how the learning facilitator (teacher) functions as an interactor in the developmental learning process in a child-centered curriculum for young children. The introduction contains a description of the role of the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Teacher Education, Developmental Programs, Early Childhood Education
Dahllof, Urban S.; Lundgren, Ulf P. – 1970
The purpose of this field study was to test a "macro-model" stemming from earlier research on ability grouping. Dependent process variables such as methods of instruction, and time for school and homework were studied as a function of grouping characteristics of the class. The main data are "macro" in the sense that they refer…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Ability, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research
Parker, Frances Yoakam – 1969
To investigate the feasibility of using opinion leaders to introduce new ideas in vocational homemaking, 124 vocational homemaking teachers and three regional supervisors of three representative regions in Ohio were surveyed by group-interview technique to determine if vocational homemaking opinion leaders were selected as sources of advice and…
Descriptors: Adults, Bibliographies, Change Agents, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Kruskal, William, Ed. – 1970
This book, one of a series prepared in connection with the Behavioral and Social Sciences Survey (BASS) conducted between 1967 and 1969, deals with problems of statistics, mathematics, and computation as they related to the social sciences. Chapter 1 shows how these subjects help in their own ways for studying learning behavior with irregular…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Computation, Higher Education, Hypothesis Testing
