One of the major program goals of the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) is the design, development, and production of a series of simulation materials for the preservice and inservice training of urban educational administrators. This paper presents evaluative information regarding the Janus Junior High Principalship…

This paper was prepared to advise the Teacher Corps/Washington Management Team about the 1976 National Conference. The following questions were used to organize the body of the report: (1) Why a conference? (2) Why certain sessions? (3) Why certain participants? (4) Why certain presentors? and (5) What imperatives should direct planning and…

Suggests that adolescents are affected by and involved in the school political grievance system in a number of ways. Under some conditions students seem to be prime transmission belts of parental dissatisfaction. Students come to interpret grievances according to role patterns exhibited by their parents. (Author/AM)

Results favored the individualized reporting system over the traditional one. High ability children were favored over low ability children and girls over boys. Individualized reporting systems yielded a higher average level of intellectual self-responsibility for children of low ability. (Author/BJG)

One hundred and seven same-sex pairs were formed so that the tutor had greater (the status-congruent condition), equal, or lesser initial math competence than the tutee. Two weeks were devoted to tutoring; then, partners exchanged roles for two weeks. Satisfaction and perceived achievement were greater on becoming the tutor than the tutee.…

Analyzes the inservice education preferences of 228 Chicago public school teachers, revealing that: (1) teachers favor meetings organized for teachers with similar teaching responsibilities; (2) involvement in sharing ideas is preferred to lectures; (3) practical topics are preferred to theoretical ones; and (4) no optimal time length was…

Describes a pretest/posttest scheme used to evaluate the impact of a continuing nursing education program on the participants' knowledge of the perinatal content covered. To complement this program-centered evaluation, an evaluation from the program participants was also obtained. Discusses the results of this evaluation and their implications.…

Recent articles by Ferree and earlier studies by others argue that women with jobs outside the home are happier and more satisfied than are fulltime housewives. Evidence from six large national surveys between 1971 and 1976 consistently fails to support this. (Author)

A comparison study between the 371 graduates of FIU's External Degree Program and a randomly-selected sample of graduates from the traditional on-campus degree programs is reported. Key factors to success are acceptance to graduate study, career advancement, and attitudes toward goal attainment. (Author/LBH)

The author, an adult educator, evaluates the Tanzanian literacy campaign in terms of the personal and qualitative effects of literacy on eight representative new literates through the participants' own perceptions, using the anthropocentric approach based on the dialog method. (MF)

The research project described in this article attempted to determine the activities of the legally trained, the use to which they put their legal skills, and their views of the utility of various aspects of their legal training. Questionnaire data were received from 1,600 graduates of law schools at Boston College, George Washington, Michigan,…

The Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) is frequently used to measure changes that have occurred in participants as a result of an encounter- or growth-group experience. The pseudo-self-actualizing tendency of counseling students is explored, and rationale is presented as to why the POI should be used with other instruments. (Author)

Relationships between faculty members' attitudes toward collective action and their perceptions of the quality of the organizational characteristics of Fordham University were examined. The study was based on modern organization theory, contending that participant needs must be integrated with organizational goals. (Author/LBH)

The marketing concept holds that the primary task of an institution is to determine the needs, wants, and values of its target constituencies and to adapt itself to delivering desired satisfactions more effectively and efficiently than its competitors. Student orientation, marketing research, mission and goals, and institutional commitment are…