This dissertation describes a study that sought to determine the relative bargaining effectiveness of the three options open to school boards in selecting a chief negotiator to handle collective bargaining with teacher unions: 1) hiring a professional negotiator from outside the community, 2) appointing a staff administrator, or 3) appointing a…

This booklet is the result of a joint effort by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the Canadian Government. The booklet explains why bilingualism is an asset to business. It describes how a growing number of firms have decided to turn bilingualism to their advantage in communicating with the consumer community. Suggestions on using bilingualism…

The objective of this study was to devise a methodology for predicting the return or nonreturn of a student for the spring semester, upon his completion of the fall term. Nineteen variables from existing student files were examined by several multivariate analyses to determine their ability to help in such a prediction. The random sample was of…

The report is a sequel to an earlier report on doctoral awards to men and women since 1970-71, the focuses on the first and last years of the study, 1970-71 and 1975-76. The increase in women's representation among doctoral degree recipients has been steady over those six years, rising from 14.3 percent to 22.9 percent. While the numbers of…

Trends in medical student financing from 1973-74, when the Public Health Service and National Health Service Corps (PH/NHSC) scholarship and the Armed Forces Health Professions scholarship programs were created, to 1975-76 are investigated. Major variables in the study include specific sources of student assistance, tuition rates, and gross…

A summary of the total associate, baccalaureate, master's and specialist, doctoral and first-professonal degrees conferred during the 1976-1977 fiscal year by 57 institutions of higher education in Kentucky is provided. Included are data from nine business colleges, which conferred a total of 2,034 associate degrees and other formal awards, and…

Empirical evidence is presented related to the effects of using a stratified sampling of items in multiple matrix sampling on the accuracy of estimates of the population mean. Data were obtained from a sample of 600 high school students for a 36-item mathematics test and a 40-item vocabulary test, both subtests of the Iowa Tests of Educational…

Salary data are presented for 30,667 filled full-time positions. In the tables presented, salary data are reported separately for faculty with M.D. degrees and for faculty with other doctoral degrees. Section A of the report depicts faculty salary information regardless of degree held. The first portion of this section contains such data according…

Characteristics and trends of U.S. Foreign Medical Students who sought transfers from foreign to U.S. medical schools via the Coordinated Transfer Application System (COTRANS) from the beginnning of the program in 1970 up to the present is presented. The overall focus is on the five-year time period, 1972 through 1976. Descriptions of…

Prestige hierarchies operate in all known organizations; universities are no exception. Davis and Moore (1945) have called such stratification in any social system a universal necessity. The present study focused on positions in a university setting. Using procedures developed to measure prestige of occupations in national surveys, the attribution…

This paper discusses the problems of gathering and analyzing data on classroom behaviors. The difficulties involved in using the common pretest-posttest experimental design are described. To grapple with these problems, a study was conducted on the effect of environmental changes on student behavior, employing a time-series design and time-series…

A summer program aimed at mastery of instructional objectives in reading and mathematics was provided for 110 deaf children (5-14 years old), many of whom were from non-English speaking or bilingual homes. Participants were administered, as a pretest, selected criterion-referenced tests from the Santa Clara Inventory of Developmental Tasks…

Data on Vermont's participation in the Regional Student Program sponsored by the New England Board of Higher Education are presented. Tables and text are included that present and interpret data on migration of students into and out of Vermont under the program over the eight-year period 1969-1976. Detailed information for the 1976-1977 school…

This report is an analysis of an investigation of staffing requirements for librarianship and information work carried out between 1972 and 1975 under the title of Sheffield Manpower Project. The results of the administration of a job descriptive questionnaire to members in a representative 45 per cent sample of libraries and information units (19…

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