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Effectiveness of the Reading Progress Scale in Predicting Achievement in Community College History Courses.
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Lingle, Ronald K.; Rosenthal, William H. – 1977
Students in four history classes were administered the Reading Progress Scale, form 5C (1975), to determine if scores would identify students who would have difficulty with coursework. Using multiple regression analysis, the scale accounted for only 8% of grade variance. While the complete sample chi square was significant, individual classes…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Grade Equivalent Scores, Grade Prediction
Teaching Performance Norms in Academia.
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Braxton, John M.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1992
Norms of undergraduate teaching behavior were examined in a survey of 302 biology, history, mathematics, and psychology faculty in 2 institution types, research universities and comprehensive colleges. The study investigated the perceived impropriety of specific planning, in-class, interpersonal, curricular, and testing practices. The survey…
Descriptors: Biology, College Faculty, College Instruction, Comparative Analysis
Faculty at Work: Focus on Research, Scholarship, and Service.
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Blackburn, Robert T.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1991
A study compared selected personal and environmental motivational variables in college faculty with allocation of work effort to research, scholarship, and service. Faculty were from eight liberal arts and sciences departments in a range of institution types. For all institutional types, self-valuation motivators significantly accounted for the…
Descriptors: Biology, Chemistry, Cognitive Psychology, College Faculty
Teaching Norms and Publication Productivity.
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Sullivan, Anna V. Shaw – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1996
A study of 114 full-time, tenured or tenure-track faculty of history, psychology, mathematics, and biology investigated the relationship between scholarly productivity and 4 norms of teaching. It was found that faculty recognize and acknowledge norms that support teaching, while simultaneously participating in expected research activities. In…
Descriptors: Biology, College Faculty, College Mathematics, College Science
Faculty Productivity and the Complexity of Student Exam Questions.
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Johnson, Robert M., Jr. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1996
A study of 560 research university faculty of biology, chemistry, history, and psychology compared faculty publication rates of books and journal articles with the complexity of their exam questions. Results found that the teachers who published books and who published fewer articles asked more critical-thinking questions. It is suggested that…
Descriptors: Biology, Chemistry, College Faculty, Conflict of Interest
Comparing Introductory Course Planning among Full-Time and Part-Time Faculty.
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Lowther, Malcolm A.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1990
Using data from a nationally representative survey of college faculty teaching introductory courses, a study compared the course planning procedures of faculty (n=2,311) in eight disciplines: English composition, history, sociology, psychology, mathematics, fine arts, languages, and business. No key differences were found between full- and…
Descriptors: Business Administration, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development