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Mohlhenrich, Janice, Comp. – SPEC Kit, 2001
This SPEC (Systems and Procedures Exchange Center) Kit is based on a survey of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries in June 2000. The goal of the survey was to identify issues to be addressed and actions ARL might take to advance the preservation goals of the members. The survey was designed to gather data on recent changes,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Library Administration
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Elizur, Dov – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1979
A questionnaire assessing achievement motivation in Israeli and American middle managers was developed and its structure was analyzed. A three-facet definition of achievement motivation--behavior modality, type of confrontation, and time perspective--was suggested which provided guidelines for the formulation of hypotheses. (Author/JKS)
Descriptors: Achievement, Achievement Need, Administrator Attitudes, Administrators
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Seidler, Klaus W. – British Journal of Language Teaching, 1989
Describes the organization of a video-letter exchange between a German ninth-grade class and a high school in the United States. The German students' experiences, feelings, and thoughts relating to the exchange formed the basis of a class questionnaire, and quotations from students responses are appended. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Exchange, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Khallad, Yacoub – Journal of Social Psychology, 2000
Explores whether Palestinian high school students in Jordan, compared with U.S. high school students in California, would aspire to higher academic goals and a narrower range of high-status occupations. Considers whether male students perceive greater family support and the relation between aspiration levels and socioeconomic status variables.…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Research
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Rothman, Stanley; Nevitte, Neil; Lichter, S. Robert – Academic Questions, 2005
Apparently, the department of agriculture is the last bastion for ideological pluralism in the modern American academy. Almost everywhere else, according to research by Stanley Rothman et al., a monolithic liberal orthodoxy holds sway, rewarding its own and conferring career disadvantage upon scholars deemed politically inconvenient. As his…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Surveys, Higher Education, College Faculty
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Wei, Youhua; Thompson, Bruce; Cook, C. Colleen – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2005
LibQUAL+[TM] data to date have not been subjected to the modern measurement theory called polytomous item response theory (IRT). The data interpreted here were collected from 42,090 participants who completed the "American English" version of the 22 core LibQUAL+[TM] items, and 12,552 participants from Australia and Europe who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Library Services, Item Response Theory
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Horn, Stacey S. – Cognitive Development, 2006
Reports on the school climate for gay and lesbian students in the United States suggest that negative attitudes toward gay and lesbian individuals are quite common in adolescence. Very little research, however, has investigated adolescents' sexual prejudice from a developmental perspective. In this study, 10th- (N = 119) and 12th- (N = 145) grade…
Descriptors: Sexual Orientation, Adolescents, Young Adults, Beliefs
Lippe, Jaclynn; Brener, Nancy D.; McManus, Tim; Kann, Laura; Speicher, Nancy – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2008
To monitor priority health-risk behaviors among youth and young adults, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS). The YRBSS includes national, state, territorial, and local school-based surveys of high school students in grades 9-12. In addition, some states, territories,…
Descriptors: Death, Heart Disorders, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Diseases
Kyrillidou, Martha, Comp.; Maxwell, Kimberly A., Comp. – 1996
This document reports data for the law and medical components of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) university libraries in the United States and Canada. Tables of summary data for collections, expenditures, and personnel and public services are presented separately for law and medical libraries by fiscal year. In addition, footnotes to…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Law Libraries
Fretwell, Gordon, Comp.; Pritchard, Sarah M., Ed. – 1991
This report presents data from the 1991 ARL (Association of Research Libraries) annual salary survey. Forty-two tables report data on professional salaries and years of experience, including a breakdown for minority librarians; distribution of professional staff by salary and position, and by sex and position; the type of institution; and size of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Annual Reports, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Fretwell, Gordon, Comp.; Daval, Nicola, Ed. – 1992
This report presents data from the 1992 ARL (Association of Research Libraries) annual salary survey. Forty-two tables report data on professional salaries and years of experience, including a breakdown for minority librarians; distribution of professional staff by salary and position and by sex and position; the type of institution; and size of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Annual Reports, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1992
This document reports the result of a study carried out to evaluate the installation and use of the UNESCO CD-ROM prototype. A questionnaire in English and French was sent to about 267 institutions around the world. Replies were received from 97 bodies, giving a response rate of about 36%. Almost all respondents were information professionals in…
Descriptors: Databases, Foreign Countries, Graphs, Information Retrieval
Fretwell, Gordon, Comp.; Pritchard, Sarah M., Ed. – 1991
This report presents data from the 1990 ARL (Association of Research Libraries) annual salary survey. Forty-two tables report data on professional salaries; years of experience, including a breakdown for minority librarians; distribution of professional staff by salary and position, and by sex and position; the type of institution; size of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Annual Reports, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Crook, Karen A.; And Others – 1986
This two-part report provides data from the 1980 Census Supplementary Questionnaire for American Indians, Eskimos, and Aleuts for the United States, census regions, standard federal administrative regions, divisions, selected states, American Indian reservations, historic areas of Oklahoma, and tribal governments and selected tribes in Oklahoma…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indians, Census Figures, Demography
Fretwell, Gordon, Comp. – 1988
This report presents data from the 1988 ARL (Association of Research Libraries) annual salary survey. Forty-one tables report data on professional salaries, years of experience, distribution of professional staff, type of institution, size of professional staff, and minorities. Tables are organized in five categories: ARL non-university libraries;…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Annual Reports, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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