Surveys engineering students' attitudes towards mathematics in three different United Kingdom universities. Reports that students can be placed into five groupings; members of groups recorded significantly different responses to many of the questions posed, including their university, gender, home or overseas status, mathematics qualification on…

A sample of 202 students filling in a student evaluation of teaching (SET) questionnaire were asked to complete another questionnaire asking about the specific reasons for awarding a score to the specific SET questionnaire items. The aim was to find out what influenced students' judgements on those items. It was found that students' interpretation…

A communications professor decided to teach an undergraduate "theories of communication" seminar course that had been listed but not taught for 12 years or more. The professor asked for advice on how to teach the course by sending an electronic mail message over an information network. The sometimes contradictory advice concerning the…

Responses to a one-page questionnaire on library security were received from 89 of 117 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) institutions (76%). The questions, which covered administrative security control, security policies and procedures, permanent identification of library materials, and swift responses to possible theft were derived from a…

A 13-item questionnaire was administered to 287 engineering students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to obtain information about their grade point average, financial assistance, membership in honorary societies, living arrangements, sex, and frequency and type of cheating on homework assignments and tests. Also included were four questions…

A guide for conducting alumni surveys is presented, including 22 sample questionnaires. The first section on planning an effective survey strategy includes the following five articles: "Let's Take a Survey" (Cletis Pride); "Surveying Your Alumni: Or an Unexamined College Is Not Worth Loving" (Jocelyn Bartkevicius); "Make Your Survey Scientific"…

Intended primarily for distribution to public archival institutions, this sample questionnaire is designed to collect information on archival systems and services and related information on records management legislation or regulation. It is noted that the questionnaire is a simplification of a previous model and that it is being used for a…

A practicum study was planned and implemented by a working mother for the purpose of developing a child care resource and referral agency in an eastern metropolitan area. The objective of the practicum was to increase the number of child care referrals available to working families by 10 percent over a 10-week period. Of the 110 surveys mailed to…

The purpose of this research was to examine policies and curriculum practices in performing arts secondary schools in the United States. Data were obtained from a survey (including questionnaires, opinionnaires, interviews, and observations) conducted among 55 schools (total number existent in 1980) and visits to 11 selected institutions in the…

Since 1977, Indiana University--Purdue University at Indianapolis, Columbus Campus has been exploring the potential for offering a nursing program under the aegis of the the Indiana University School of Nursing. In May 1984, a study was conducted to determine community support for the development of a major nursing component for a Licensed…

This chapter contains a description of the research strategy and subsequent results of a study that was conducted to gather information about Instructional Improvement Centers (IIC) in higher education. An IIC is an organization that is charged with facilitating the improvement of those competencies of faculty members that will lead to an…

The characteristics and activities of schools with positive public images were identified in order to guide other schools in their efforts to reestablish effective relations with their communities. Recent polls reflect a serious decline in the public view of education, and the resulting confidence gap has created much difficulty for American…

Due to funding cutbacks resulting from the Title XX Social Services Block Grant, ongoing inservice education for teachers in the Berks County, Pennsylvania, Intermediate Unit Child Care Program had not been provided for over 2 years. To meet the need for inservice training, a practicum was designed and implemented to (1) increase inservice…

The tuition benefit policies of 10 companies are described, along with a summary of the results of a benefits survey of major companies. The survey items and responses are provided for 650 companies, representing the industrial Fortune 500 and the service Fortune 500: banks, insurance companies, retailers, and transportation and utility companies.…

A study was conducted to identify strategies for obtaining financial support from business and industry for community college vocational programs. The study sample was drawn from colleges which had reported success in securing funds during a 1982 California statewide vocational education study. Critical incident data collected during telephone…