This study records the historical background and investigates the value of the leadership course as perceived by former members of the course. The leadership course was initiated as an attempt to improve the quality of leadership at the school level, thereby improving educational opportunities for provincial students. The study report contents (1)…

AN ANALYSIS OF DATA COLLECTED FROM STUDENT REGISTRATION CARDS AND THE FORMULATION OF A STUDENT QUESTIONNAIRE CONSTITUTE THE FIRST PART OF A THREE-STAGE LONG-RANGE RESEARCH PROJECT TO EVALUATE A UNIVERSITY CORRESPONDENCE STUDY PROGRAM. THE DATA ANALYSIS DESCRIBES THE POPULATION OF CORRESPONDENCE STUDENTS IN TERMS OF RELEVANT INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL…

To evaluate the effectiveness of local advisory council involvement in the Making Cable Work project, two questionnaires were employed. The first was distributed to all local advisory council members to collect factual and attitudinal information which facilitated a subsequent set of workshops. Workshop content areas included: (1) public access;…

A job involvement measure was altered to reflect academic involvement and was employed as a predictor of academic performance. Contrary to the findings of prior industrial research, involvement was found to be correlated neither with age nor with course satisfaction; however, it did prove an efficacious predictor of course grade. (Author/JKS)

Provides guidelines and procedures for evaluating supervisory training programs. A four-stage evaluation process is presented. Process includes determining (1) participant's reactions, (2) knowledge and skills learned and attitude changes, (3) changes in on-the-job behavior, and (4) final program results. (CSS)

This paper examines: (1) events leading to the present concern over student's rights; (2) a summary of the author's theoretical assumptions concerning school change; (3) recent work in developing change processes in two Ontario secondary schools; and (4) moral and ethical considerations regarding student rights in the process of planned change.…

The study aimed at identifying the skills taught in two-year accounting programs compared to tasks performed by program graduates. Findings indicated a strong relationship between training and job tasks and that employment opportunities were available in a variety of work environments. (AC)

Iowa high school seniors thought that supervised occupational experience in vocational agriculture was important in developing occupational abilities, according to the research reported in this article. The abilities developed by the experience which were most highly rated by the students are listed. (MF)

Trustees, student trustees, and presidents voice a variety of reactions after experience with the 1975 New York law mandating student trusteeship. One theme was that in cases where board members were satisfied with the student presence, so were the president and the student. (Author/LBH)

The authors discuss judicial and nonjudicial examples of reform attempts to make public education institutions more responsive to the individual preferences of students and parents. (MJB)

Games must be designed to meet childrens' different developmental needs and potentials. (JD)

Responses to questions on demography, knowledge about student fees, attitudes toward collection and distribution of fees, and utilization and satisfaction with eight specific fee-funded programs were collected by mail survey from a sample of 1,002 University of Boulder students stratified by class year, ethnic group, and school. Only one-third…

Reported are citizens values regarding the importance of: (1) various university goals and activities; (2) various academic fields or disciplines; and (3) various reasons for attending the University of Minnesota. In a stratified random sample of 722 Minnesota citizens there was a 56 percent response rate and categories of values were identified.…

Major dimensions of consumer perceptions were identified using factor analysis of survey data as follows: accessibility, availability of family doctors, and of hospitals/specialists, completeness of facilities, continuity of care, and physician conduct. Conduct was clearly the most important factor in general satisfaction. (Author/LBH)

The effect of stressors can impair effective intellectual functioning in dental students and act as a deterrent to learning. A study to determine the similarities and differences in the dissatisfiers of the dental school experience for current students, recent graduates and dental faculty is discussed. (MLW)