The Charlotte-Mecklenburg (North Carolina) school system has a locally funded teacher center, the Teaching Learning Center (TLC), and school-based advisors called Coordinating Teachers (CTs), who provide nonevaluative instructional and curriculum support to teachers. The possibility of linking the TLC and CTs more closely to provide increased…

The efficiency and effectiveness of using a group approach to advising by a team of faculty advisors were evaluated in 1980-81 at the General College, University of Minnesota. Group/team advising was compared to individualized, one-to-one advising of first-semester freshmen in terms of student satisfaction with advising, student understanding of…

Two questionnaire surveys of 89 Kansas public elementary and secondary schools examined, first, the relationship between school expectancy climate--teachers' expectations that their efforts would lead to positive student results--and school effectiveness, and, second, the change in that relationship through the school year. School effectiveness…

In spring 1980, follow-ups were conducted of students who graduated from Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College (MGCJC) during the spring 1979 term and students who did not return to MGCJC but who did not graduate. These studies were conducted in conjunction with all state junior colleges. During spring 1979, 838 students graduated from the four…

Elementary and secondary school student teachers were tested before, during, and after their teaching experiences to determine if there were changes in their concerns about teaching. Three categories of concerns, each with eight items, were ranked: methods concerns, pertaining to instructional skills and content knowledge; cultural concerns,…

The theoretical relationships between employee job satisfaction and employee behavior, and the factors that influence job satisfaction among nurses are considered, along with the type of research that should be conducted on this topic. Although major contributions to the theory of human needs have been made by Maslow and by Herzberg, the…

The purpose of this study was to determine and illuminate the relationship between setting and use at the Workshop Center for Open Education (City College of New York) as observed by participants, staff, and investigators. Data were collected during the academic year 1979-1980 by questionnaire, interview, and observation. The use of the Center…

Findings of this November 1980 study indicated that outdoor education staff and classroom teachers should consider not only what they perceive to be important, but also, what children and parents consider important as outcomes and activities for resident outdoor education (ROE). An opinionnaire, designed to test whether participant groups in ROE…

This study was designed to examine the relationship of certain achievement-related constructs to individual motivation for social and occupational mobility. The specific achievement-related behavior which was studied centered on the decision to take advantage of the opportunity to participate in a union-sponsored college program offered to…

An investigation of junior high school counseling programs was conducted to examine existing counseling services and consider possible alternatives and future evaluation. Traditional counseling programs in four junior high schools and a differentiated-staff model in a fifth school were analyzed. Data were collected from surveys, daily work…

A project was conducted to develop an adult vocational education competency-based program using a research-based instructional systems design and to assess the application of competency-based research products being developed by the Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States in the development of adult vocational education programs.…

To identify the major reasons why high school vocational agriculture teachers in Ohio left their teaching positions between 1970 and 1975, 134 former teachers and 118 current teachers were surveyed. Former teachers were asked to rank forty-five factors on the extent of influence each factor had on their decision to leave teaching. The five factors…

Ten of the twelve research studies conducted at South Oklahoma City Junior College (SOCJC) during fiscal year 1977 focused on some aspect of the student population. The first study in this compilation compared enrollments between fall 1975 and 1976 in terms of student age, day and night courses, type of instruction, and degree program. The second…

This manual explains how to administer the instrument, Guidance Program Assessment--Elementary School, and suggests ways to interpret the data obtained. Four aspects of a comprehensive guidance program are examined through the use of this assessment instrument: advice areas, school helping processes, classroom environment, and group topics…

This manual explains how to administer the following two instruments: (1) Comprehensive Counseling and Personnel Services Program Assessment: Postsecondary; and (2) Comprehensive Counseling and Personnel Services Program Assessment: Adult. These instruments are intended to assess the views of those learners who are participating in a current…