INSTRUMENTS TO ASSESS PRISONERS' VOCATIONAL ASPIRATIONS AND THEIR ATTITUDES TOWARD WORK WERE COMPLETED BY 175 INMATES IN NORTH DAKOTA IN THE SPRING OF 1966. UPON RELEASE, 35 PERCENT PLANNED TO GET MORE EDUCATION, 52 PERCENT PLANNED TO GET A JOB, SEVEN PERCENT PLANNED TO WORK AT HOME, AND SIX PERCENT HAD NO DEFINITE PLANS. SATISFACTION WITH…

THE BELIEF PATTERNS OF EIGHT GROUPS OF SCHOOL PERSONNEL (STUDENT TEACHERS, COOPERATING TEACHERS, PRINCIPALS, CLINICAL SUPERVISORS, METHODS PROFESSORS, EDUCATION PROFESSORS, OTHER ACADEMICIANS, AND STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PERSONNEL), TOTALLING 976 PERSONS, AT SIX INSTITUTIONS (INCLUDING THREE STATE TEACHERS COLLEGES AND TWO LARGE STATE…

The paper reports on a survey of the attitudes of 1,292 Australian school principals toward educational and prevocational provisions for the mildly retarded. It was found that all groups of principals, with the exception of those in government metropolitan high schools, were generally positive toward the mainstreaming of gifted, mildly retarded,…

The following approaches to beginning reading were compared: (1) a basal reader program utilizing a whole word, carefully controlled vocabulary, and ability grouping procedures; (2) a phonics approach, with many different words, using essentially whole class procedures; (3) a combination whole word basal program supplemented with a phonics…

The purposes of this study were (1) to describe similarities and differences in educational goals of rural youth and of their parents for them, and (2) to determine the relationships of the similarities and differences to such factors as membership or non-membership in clubs, sex, leve l of living, residence, size of family, state, and area. The…

The purpose of this report is to present data concerning the educational and occupational aspirations and expectations of boys and girls who were juniors and seniors in a sample of 14 Washingto n high schools in the 1965-66 school year. During the winter and spring of 1966, juniors and seniors completed questionnaires as part of a study of…

This paper describes the development and first administrations of a survey of attitudes toward policies and procedures in the evaluating of classroom teaching. The instrument was cooperatively developed by teachers, administrators, and consultants. It provides a collective picture of an ideal system of evaluation and, simultaneously, a picture of…

This study was undertaken to assess the educational value of an exchange program which enables teacher candidates from the University of Michigan to participate in a one-semester program of study (involving both professional and supervised teaching courses) at the University of Sheffield in England. The comparative study was designed to test the…

Preliminary to a larger research project on Mexican American attitudes, this report focused on the extent to which feelings of alienation are present in the barrios of 5 eastern New Mexico population centers. The feelings of alienation were analyzed by the degree of powerlessness, normlessness, self-estrangement, and isolation expressed or…

The fit of educational aspirations of Illinois rural high school youths to 3 related one-parameter mathematical models was investigated. The models used were the continuous-time Markov chain model, the discrete-time Markov chain, and the Poisson distribution. The sample of 635 students responded to questionnaires from 1966 to 1969 as part of an…

The major purposes of this study were to identify the attitudes of Ohio public school superintendents, vocational education supervisory personnel, and teacher educators regarding vocational education, and to determine their degree of acceptance of selected vocational education principles. The method of investigation employed an attitude scale…

This report on pupil, staff, and parent attitudes toward career education presents data obtained from a January 1972 inventory of sample populations in the six participating Local Education Agencies (LEAs) in the Comprehensive Career Education Model (CCEM) project. These data serve as a baseline for the CCEM installation efforts, and this initial…

Organizational behavior is a function of interactions among at least 3 sets of variables: (a) social, institutional, and individual values; (b) institutional goals and role expectations; and (c) individual needs and perceptions of the work environment. One problem confronting the administrator in institutions of higher education is that of…

During 1970-71, the Select Subcommittee on Education of the House Committee on Education and Labor held 8 days of hearings on the establishment of a National Institute of Education. This document is the second of three appendixes on the hearings and contains essays by scholars who have studied the aims of education, the issues of educational…

Gives an American exchange teacher's descriptions of British education and experiences while teaching biology there as well as presenting the experiences of the British teacher who had replaced him in America. (LS)