The Assistant Principal's Internship Program (APIP) is one of several programs designed to increase the number of minorities and women in administrative and supervisory positions in the New York City school system. APIP graduates complete 21 credits of tuition-reimbursed coursework at the City College of New York and a semester-long full-time…

This user's manual has been produced to familiarize data users with the procedures followed for data collection and processing of the first follow-up teacher component of the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88). The teacher component provides teacher information that can be used to analyze the behaviors and outcomes of the…

A study compared records of General Educational Development (GED) graduates and University of Alaska (UAA) students to assess first-semester college performance of 506 recently certified GED graduates. Data indicated that 31 percent of Anchorage-area GED graduates had enrolled at the UAA within 1 to 4 years following their GED graduation. Fifty…

In 1992, a follow-up study was conducted by the Washington community colleges of students who had been enrolled in dislocated workers' programs between 1986 and 1990. The study sought to determine the current status of the students in terms of re-employment, job search skill development, and attitudes towards the programs. Study findings, based on…

Two surveys were directed to Florida employers that employed former vocational education students in 1988. The surveys obtained information describing employer opinions regarding general and specific vocational preparation of workers for employment. The 1989-90 employer general opinion survey examined hiring needs, general preparation, and…

A study investigated whether parents' use of power-assertive or negotiating strategies to resolve conflicts with children predicted children's psychosocial adjustment and use of comparable strategies with peers. The study also determined whether children's behavior with mothers at 2 years of age predicted their behavior with peers at age 6. The…

This book examines a national sample of high school seniors, some of whom went on to college and some of whom did not. The focus is on how college actually impacted these students' attitudes and values, social and political participation, conceptions of self, and responses to college. Chapter 1 discusses the methods and data for the study. Chapter…

This report describes the background, nature of, and results from a survey of the 1997 Pine Valley High School (Michigan) graduating class. Pine Valley is a name used for purposes of the report. The questionnaire, administered in June 1997, was designed to: (1) identify the curriculum areas students wished they had studied or studied in greater…

The University of Akron's Reading Assessment Component (RAC) research study assessed the effectiveness of a computer-based literacy program, Principles of the Alphabet Literacy System (PALS), as an alternative to classroom instruction for functionally illiterate adults living in Summit County, Ohio. The RAC study assessed four objectives: (1)…

The broad area of teacher satisfaction is an important component in career decisions about teaching. Some sources of satisfaction are the joy of helping students learn, the sense of efficacy, positive relationships with colleagues, satisfactory working conditions, the leadership style of principals, and the prestige and esteem associated with…

A context in which existing items may provide a convenient source of questions for questionnaires was explored through a case study making use of existing comparison groups. Two programs at Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), the Science and Engineering Research Semester (SERS) and the Laboratory Graduate Research Participation (Lab Grad)…

This study examined the near-term impact of the closing of the University of Minnesota's Waseca (UMW) campus on the tenured faculty who transferred to other University of Minnesota campuses. Eleven faculty members who had transferred to two campuses were interviewed approximately 5 to 8 months following their transfers. Interviewees tended to be…

This report presents results of an examination of the 1980 seniors' and sophomores' transcript data collected in 1984 by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) as part of the High School and Beyond (HS&B) study. An introduction describes the purposes of this study of course-taking patterns in less-than-four-year institutions,…

At North Dakota State University annual follow-up studies have been conducted on teacher education graduates of the secondary teacher preparation program since 1963. Each year, survey forms are sent to all teacher education graduates of the previous year and to the principals or superintendents of graduates who are teaching. The purpose of the…

In an effort to evaluate the academic persistence and performance of all 271 fall 1989 first-time college students and first-time transfer students at Mendocino College (MC), the students' academic histories were analyzed for 4 sequential semesters from fall 1989 through spring 1991. In addition, students who persisted were compared with students…