This report contains the results of the ninth application of the Tennessee Technological University Teacher Evaluation Model and an overview of previous reports that have been conducted since 1973. Information on graduates of the teacher education program is used for curriculum evaluation and long range planning. In the first chapter, data…

Evidence concerning tenure as found in a review of the literature of more than 200 sources is examined. After addressing the tenure process, typology, history, the involvement of the American Association of University Professors, and current legal perspectives, the various alternatives to tenure are considered. The following systemic institutional…

The purpose of this study was to examine the general proposition that different maternal child-rearing pattern-types (permissive or restrictive) are associated with high scholastic achievement in elementary school children from four different class-culture groupings (black middle-class, black working-class, white middle-class, and white…

Data on tuition and/or required fees are presented on resident/nonresident and undergraduate/graduate students at U.S. public colleges and universities and community colleges. In addition to statistical tables, charts are provided that graphically illustrate the relative position of Washington averages in the undergraduate four-year institution…

Results of the 1980-81 Survey of Institutional Characteristics of Colleges and Universities, as part of the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), are presented. The survey sample consisted of 3,270 accredited institutions and branches and an additional 141 systems and central offices. Eighty more institutions/branches had…

Data from the National Longitudinal Study (NLS) of the high school class of 1972 (statistics on a national sample of young adults as they moved out of high school into early adulthood) were used to test rural young adults' sex role orientation and the rural-urban differential in sex role orientation. NLS data were collected for the base year…

A random sample, predominantly black, of about 100 rural Louisiana residents was interviewed in 1979-80 to determine the extent to which rural residents' educational and occupational motivations were related to their adoption of agricultural technology. Published literature relevant to the subject was reviewed. With the exception of an…

This study sought to determine the mean differences in readiness test scores of three groups of children: (1) children whose parents volunteered to particpate in a training program and received the training before their children were tested (Experimental Group); (2) children whose parents volunteered to participate in the training program and…

A study compared the effectiveness of public and private sector work experience programs. In five locations equal numbers of jobs were developed in the private and public/nonprofit sectors. To equalize the incentives relative to the public sector, full wage subsidies were provided on an experimental basis in the private sector. Youth were matched…

The goals and purposes of a school influence the nature of guidance services within an educational system. To assist New Jersey school districts with the definition of role responsibilities of school guidance counselors, counseling staff members were surveyed. Results indicated that most counselors were willing to: (1) plan and implement a…

A study was conducted to ascertain the continuing education needs of men and women leisure service professionals in Wisconsin and to identify differences caused by gender. (Leisure service professionals were defined as persons employed full-time in administering, directing, leading, organizing, and planning in leisure service organizations.) A…

The study described in this report was conducted at Black Hawk College (BHC) to determine the characteristics and attitudes of students enrolled in evening classes in the college's university parallel programs. After introductory material discussing the importance of adult, part-time students to today's community college and the objectives of the…

Part of a year-long sociolinguistic study of teacher and pupil perceptions of classroom discourse, this study presents data on pupil perceptions of discourse in play settings. Subjects were 165 pupils from six second, third, and fourth grade classrooms in a lower socioeconomic, multiethnic elementary school. In each of the six classrooms six…

A year-long ethnographic case study was conducted primarily to investigate the developmental nature of children's spontaneous grouping activities in an elementary school setting. Participant observation and related methods were conducted for two days a week (on average) in a small, traditional parochial school located in a lower-class integrated…

The ecological concepts of activity structure and activity segments were central to this examination of observational data attained in a three-week period from 18 fifth-grade math classes and 17 fifth-grade social studies classes in school districts in the greater Chicago region. Classroom observations were conducted by pairs of observers: one…