The purposes of this study are: (1) to investigate the attitudes of Florida Extension Service specialists toward in-service education evaluation; (2) to determine the extent to which extension specialists are evaluating in-service education programs for which they have responsibility; (3) to determine the kinds of in-service education evaluation…

A staffing model for client assignment to graduate-level counselor trainees in the Counseling Practicum Clinic of the Department of Counseling Psychology at Ball State University is presented. Staffing and assignment procedures for this clinic which serves approximately 300 non-student clients and 50-60 counselor trainees each quarter, are…

The perceived benefits of college as reported by alumni from 55 postsecondary institutions in the United States were surveyed during 1980-1982 using the Alumni Survey of the American College Testing (ACT) Program. Findings were analyzed for the total group of 12,682 and for subgroups based on college size, student sex, student major area, number…

Intended for project directors, consultants, Colorado Department of Education personnel, and other interested persons, this report examines the overall usefulness of the Colorado Migrant Education Resource Center's (CoMERC's) efforts in putting on an institute for summer migrant school instructional staff. The first section describes the planning,…

The report presents the major feedback and cost factors of the 1982 Summer Institute held by the Colorado Migrant Education Resource Center (CoMERC) for summer migrant school instructional staff. The first section describes the pre-registration process and depicts the make-up of the 198 participants. The next section presents comments on…

A common sexual stereotype, supported by research evidence, is that women are more sociable than men. In studies using standardized measures of social interests, social values, needs for inclusion and acceptance, and the need for affiliation, women nearly always score higher than men. In studies comparing the social skills of women and men, women…

Part of a systematic, in-depth assessment of Miami-Dade Community College's (MDCC's) educational programs, student support systems, and selected campus-level activities, this volume of the college's institutional self-study report examines the impact and effectiveness of the Center for Business and Industry (CBI) at MDCC's Wolfson Campus.…

One half of the subjects were introduced to a professor using a written biographical description including a positive teaching evaluation, while with the other subjects a negative evaluation replaced the positive one. Following the lecture, subjects completed a teaching evaluation. The two lectures differed only in the material presented.…

Counseling has an impact on how college students view their problems and most students feel positive toward their counseling experiences. Students and counselors at a rural college completed a questionnaire to evaluate their experiences. Results indicated that both students and counselors agreed on the nature, but not the cause, of their problems.…

In June 1979, a study was conducted to determine to what extent William Rainey Harper College's (WRHC's) varsity athletic program attracted new students and to determine the impact of the program on its participants. All 232 students who participated in varsity athletics during 1978-79 were surveyed regarding their principal reason for enrolling…

A study conducted to determine user acceptability of cassette braille systems addressed three concerns: (1) user reaction to the basic concept of cassette braille, (2) the determination of the strong and weak features of the cassette braille machines currently available, and (3) the determination of those features of braille machines which would…

The purpose of this study was to design a valid, reliable instrument that identifies and measures teachers' attitudes toward inservice programs. The study also sought to locate attitude differences between school sites. An attitude scale was developed in five stages: (1) identifying the nature of the possible attitude factors from current…

As a supplement to the standard in-school high school curriculum, the Executive High School Internship Program provides experiential learning opportunities for gifted high school students. The program focuses on management-level field placements through which participants learn to make decisions, interact with the world-of-work, and assume…

The extent to which Stokols' model of alienation could be applied to the relocation of elderly into age-homogeneous communal residences was investigated by interviewing 50 residents of two homes for the aged and one senior citizen apartment complex. Three types of regression analyses were performed to test the hypothesis that simultaneously…

To evaluate the preparation provided by William Rainey Harper College (WRHC) to students planning to transfer to a baccalaureate program, a follow-up study of transfer-oriented students was conducted in 1980. All 429 transfer-oriented students who accumulated 48 or more semester hours during the 1978-79 academic year were surveyed, and data were…