Develops a classification that provides assistant principals with a useful framework within which, at both system and school levels, they might examine their behavior and consider modifications. (Author/IRT)

The hypothesis that a cross-national interaction increases ethnic role salience was investigated in a laboratory setting in Australia. Among other findings, Asian subjects gave more ethnic responses than Australian subjects did, this effect being mainly accounted for by differences in perceived ethnic role attribution. (DM)

The conceptualization of teacher role has led to the six-factor Role Dimension Profile Scale. When responses to the scale used with a Likert data collection format are analyzed, the resulting single dimension is interpreted as the teacher's "professional horizon." Implications of these results are discussed. (Author/GSK)

Summarizes a study using latent-trait theory to construct a variable that conceptualizes practitioner perspectives about the deputy principalship in self-managing (Australian) primary schools. A sample of 403 deputy principals, 179 principals, and 138 teachers was analyzed according to both actual and ideal situations, using a Rasch measurement…

Summarizes findings of a study identifying problematic aspects of the deputy principalship (job dissatisfaction and lack of a significant professional identity) in self-managed Western Australia primary schools. Deputy principals can reshape their positions by increasing their role awareness, assuming greater policymaking responsibility,…

This paper explores the impact of policies and institutions on employment and unemployment of OECD countries in the past decades. Reduced-form unemployment equations, consistent with standard wage setting/price-setting models, are estimated using cross-country/time-series data from 21 OECD countries over the period 1982-2003. In the…

Summary data from teacher and student responses to a checklist describing perceptions of what should (teacher) and does (student) go on in biology classrooms are presented without interpretation. Classes were studying biology in grades 11 and 12 of South Australian high schools. (AL)

A study examined (1) how teachers in England. Australia, New Zealand, and the United States think others expect them to behave and (2) the amount of divergence existing between these expectations and the teacher's own attitudes. A teacher-questionnaire listed 10 teacher activities (derived from an interview phase of the study) representing…

A study of the governing boards of two Australian universities whose membership was drawn from academic, government, and business circles was concerned with role perceptions of the members. Their expectations of their functions were fewer than might be expected, and as a group they held conflicting expectations. (Author/JMD)

As school systems internationally seek to improve the models of professional development they are providing for their teachers to support them in integrating information and communication technology (ICT) in their teaching practice, growing opportunities emerge to compare and contrast approaches employed in different cultural contexts and to learn…

Aspects of the relative importance of work were examined in a representative sample of 700 Melbourne year-10 students. Instruments were Taylor's Work Quiz (WQ), the Values Scale (VS) and Salience Inventory (SI) developed for the international Work Importance Study, and Holland's Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI). From the WQ three basic…

The paper examines the cultural and economic aspects of the status and role of women in Australian culture and their affect on mothers of disabled children. Changes which incorporate the feminist perspective are recommended at the policy, regional/local, and individual service delivery levels. (DB)

A teacher education program was developed to enable preservice teachers to discuss and role-play the kinds of behavior associated with being a classroom teacher. This evalution report examines the curriculum design and trialing procedures, and reports the findings from experimental use of the curriculum in four institutions. (Author/BW)

Compared 60 Italian-Australian and 48 Anglo-Australian adolescent girls on self-esteem and measures associated with sex roles. Found self-esteem and sex role satisfaction did not differ in two groups, and no significant differences in attitudes toward sex role differentiation. Groups differed in pattern of variables associated with self-esteem and…

This report presents an analysis of information about the teaching styles used by parents of children enrolled in the Queensland Preschool Correspondence Program in Australia. Structured interviews conducted with a sample of 47 mothers in their own homes provided the basis for analysis and categorization of teaching styles. Interviews cover such…