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Peer reviewedWagner, John A., III; Gooding, Richard Z. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1987
Presents three studies investigating discrepancies in published American research on participation and its outcomes. The first study, a longitudinal review of research published between 1950 and 1985, showed societal trends affected research questions, methodology, and magnitude of reported effects. The other two studies corroborated these…
Descriptors: Conservatism, Liberalism, Longitudinal Studies, Participation
Peer reviewedGrasmick, Harold G.; And Others – Social Science Quarterly, 1992
Presents survey results on the movement to abolish corporal punishment in public education. Reports that fundamentalist Protestants are more supportive of corporal punishment than others. Predicts that religion is likely to be the route for public mobilization on this issue. Suggests that the greater punitiveness of Protestant fundamentalists…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Childrens Rights, Corporal Punishment, Discipline
Download full textLitten, Larry H.; Kern, Kathleen – 1993
The Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) database based on the American Freshmen Survey provides data for use in making marketing and management decisions in colleges and universities. This paper describes an operational cooperative model for managing and exploiting the data that CIRP makes available. The paper also offers an example…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Programs, Databases
Merron, Keith; Torbert, William R. – 1983
Since 1980, Loevinger's Sentence Completion Test has been used to explore the relationship between ego development and managerial effectiveness in the context of Boston College's Masters of Business Administration (MBA) program. According to the theory of ego development developed by Loevinger and others, most adults either inhabit one of four…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Behavior, Beliefs
Peer reviewedThorkildsen, Theresa A. – Update on Law-Related Education, 1994
Asserts that issues of equality and equity are important to teachers and school administrators. Reviews previous research and reports on interviews with students about their conceptions of fairness. Includes a table illustrating how students develop conceptions of fairness and a class survey. (CFR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Democratic Values, Educational Strategies
Rettinger, Virginia – Moral Education Forum, 1993
Reports on a study of the relationship between moral and political consciousness as evidenced by the ideas and words of 20 middle-school children of average scholastic ability. Finds that the socioeconomic conditions of a community influenced the children's perceptions of issues and problems. (CFR)
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Elementary Education, Females, Intermediate Grades
Lavelle, Ellen; Rickord, Bill – 1997
This research study reports the results of an attempt to build a model of individual differences in undergraduate student development based on factor analysis of a wide range of students' beliefs and behaviors. An 127-item inventory named the Dakota Inventory of Student Orientations was administered to 738 male and female undergraduate students in…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Correlation, Factor Analysis, General Education
