A survey was conducted to determine by what methods schools classify students' race and ethnicity, the categories they use, and how they report the information to the federal government. The survey was conducted through the Fast Response Survey System, a system designed for small amounts of data and rapid surveys. Brief questionnaires were sent to…

This study examined college students' perceptions on interactions across racial and cultural differences at a major research university in the United States. Approximately 30 freshman students from various groups volunteered to participate in a year-long program intended to encourage students to become cross-cultural mentors and allies for each…

Volume 7, the seventh of eight publications developed by the Intercultural Development Research Association as part of the "Texas School Dropout Survey Project" focuses on study methods and procedures. It includes all surveys, protocols, and instructions and documentation of procedures used in the Texas Dropout Survey Project. Included…

Information about faculty who were teaching full time in fall 1982 in English, history, modern languages, and philosophy is reported, based on survey results. Gathered from 2,400 colleges and universities, the data cover gender, ethnic/racial background, academic rank and tenure status, and level of educational attainment. Detailed statistical…

The extent to which teacher education programs had prepared teachers for working with diverse groups of students was studied through responses of 40 California teachers and 35 Kansas teachers to an inventory of teacher attitudes about instructional relations, the Manson Teacher Inventory. The California teachers were from diverse backgrounds and…

In this paper we present two studies that examine mentoring supports for alternative certification teachers from three perspectives: pre-interns, mentor teachers, and site administrators. The diverse sample population allowed us to study the role of race, gender, age, and prior careers in six domains of teacher learning and in their beliefs about…

A survey was conducted to determine whether elementary school library media specialists are promoting the integration of multicultural literature into the curriculum. The emphasis was on the use of fiction and easy fiction books with Hispanic, Asian, or American Indian characters and settings. Twenty-five questionnaires were returned (out of 30)…

The study described in this book was designed by the Southwest Regional Laboratory as part of a proposal to create a Metropolitan Center for the Far West Laboratory. The Center would focus on the challenges facing urban educators in its service area. Metropolitan school districts, characterized by high numbers of minority students, successfully…

This final report describes activities and accomplishments of a 3-year project by the Westchester (New York) Colleges Consortium on Racial Diversity, 10 colleges with a combined student enrollment of 36,000 students, to improve the racial climate on campus through peer-facilitated diversity training for nonfaculty personnel who interact with…

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is a congressionally mandated survey of educational achievement of what American students know and can do, it also includes a yardstick that can be used to evaluate that performance. Results, presented here for the states and the nation, indicate that just over 60 percent of the students in…

A survey of University of Tennessee College of Education graduate students (N=353) examined their attitudes toward faculty, curriculum, personal satisfaction, facilities, and administration. Students in all seven departmental groups rated faculty as most satisfactory and administration as least satisfactory. One administration item was rated…

After reviewing the literature on mentoring, this report presents the results of a study of 544 students enrolled at Florida A&M University (FAMU), a historically black institution. Students responses to the following issues are analyzed by gender, race, classification, and school and college: (1) reasons for having a mentor relationship at…

Annual surveys of North Carolina State University's first-time freshmen are conducted during freshman orientation. This study compared first-time freshmen in the fall of 1977 (n=2,343) with those in the fall of 1986 (n=3,130). The questions deal with the students' attitudes, plans, needs, family and community background, and political views. They…

Post-high school activities of 1983 California graduates were studied as part of the initial phase of a 5-year follow-up study. Of 11,512 graduates who were mailed a questionnaire, 4,040 responded. About 75 percent indicated that they were enrolled in a school or college during the last fall or winter; about 49 percent were employed and about 16…

Reported is an instrument, the Science Student Observation Instrument (SSOI), designed for use in activity-centered science classes in desegregated urban junior high schools. Use of the instrument will enable the observer to compare classroom behaviors of black and white students, to determine the extent of interracial interactions, and to…