Indicates that broadcast news employers prefer entry-level employees who have (1) a degree in journalism or broadcast journalism, (2) a liberal arts education, and (3) a news internship. Claims that educators have a responsibility to provide both journalism skills coursework and academic counseling leading to relevant and practical degree…

Reports findings of study of information brokers in Victoria, Australia, which identified services offered by individual brokers and information brokerage businesses, resources used to provide those services, their clientele and pricing strategies, the attributes needed for a successful broker, and relationships between brokers and traditional…

Survey results indicate that (1) nurses, dentists, and doctors consider communication training valuable and also necessary at several educational levels and (2) most health professionals receive their communication training from instructors outside the speech communication discipline. Calls for more involvement by speech communication educators.…

Reports the results of a survey of Fortune 500 companies regarding the position of communications manager. Profiles the responsibilities, typical salary, and usefulness of the position as perceived by respondents. (MS)

Summarizes results of a survey of training professionals conducted to determine their perceptions of teachers' competencies and ability to function as trainers in business. Respondents' suggestions to teachers on preparation for the training field are summarized, as well as their perceptions of the differences between training and teaching. (MBR)

Reports the findings of a survey of 141 teachers that investigated whether public school teachers of subjects involving reading, writing, and literature read contemporary materials in these fields. (HOD)

According to print and broadcast environmental reporters, students who want to become environmental reporters should not major in journalism or natural sciences; instead, they should seek a broad, liberal arts education with no more than a smattering of science and writing courses. (HOD)

Examines the occupational aspirations of adolescent women. Subjects were 149 eleventh graders. Results indicate that many teenage females still subscribe to traditional sex-role values in their occupational aspirations. (Author)

Describes a survey of elementary teachers in Newfoundland that investigated the extent to which teachers saw themselves as participants in educational decision-making compared to their desired degree of involvement. (Available from Canadian Administrator Business Manager, Department of Educational Administration, The University of Alberta,…

Describes a cross-cultural study of secondary teachers in Sweden and the state of Washington that investigated the interrelationship of teacher attitudes regarding job satisfaction, professionalism, and collective negotiations. (For availability see EA 507 343) (Author/JG)

Discusses the value of school evaluations conducted by regional accreditation agencies as a basis for self-study and program improvement efforts by secondary school staff members. Summarizes surveys of superintendents' and principals' views of the effects of such school evaluation programs. (JG)

Reports findings of two surveys of Ontario elementary and secondary teachers that measured teachers' attitudes regarding collective bargaining tactics and classified teachers' responses according to their militancy or accomodativeness. Available from Department of Educational Administration, The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G…

In April 1996 survey examined issues that many educators face when facilitating outdoor adventure programs that include persons with disabilities. The survey was returned by 176 of the 487 program directors listed in the 1992 Directory of Experiential Therapy and Adventure-Based Counseling Programs. The great majority of respondents were persons…

Analyzes some of the data collected in the Survey of Earned Doctorates, conducted annually by the Office of Scientific Personnel of the National Research Council, which uses a questionnaire completed by graduates at the time they fulfil all requirements for the doctoral degree. (Author/JM)

Focuses on the analytic and methodological base for Jencks' finding that the correlation between income and educational variables is very low; apparently the Jencks group considered path analysis a powerful inferential technique, while ignoring the limitations placed on it by a highly restrictive series of assumptions. (Author/JM)