A survey was conducted to determine ways to stimulate and encourage more scholarship and research by blacks on questions of educational policy relating to the needs of blacks. An informal survey of 32 black educators and social scientists investigated the following areas: the inadequate supply of competent black researchers, the training of black…

The principal changes being undertaken in Soviet higher education as part of the general restructuring of Soviet society are outlined, including improving the training of higher education specialists, enhancing the role of research, improving staff utilization, increasing salaries of higher education personnel, and enhancing student living…

This review of the literature discusses contemporary theories and models of action research that are being used by university faculty who are working with administrators and teachers to plan and conduct school-and classroom-based action research projects. The books that are reviewed provide educators with a variety of models for planning and…

Recent and anticipated declines in openings for new science and engineering faculty are examined, along with recommendations for national policies to counteract this. It is suggested that the decline stems from two key sources: an absence of growth in total faculty size, and low rates of retirement among present tenured faculty. The extent of the…

A model incorporating both academic and nonacademic factors as determinants of productivity was tested with samples of physical and biological scientists, social scientists, and humanists taken from the 1972-73 American Council on Education survey of faculty at U.S. institutions of higher learning. Considerable variation was found in the process…

The status of instruction/research employees in Missouri state-supported higher education institutions during 1978-79 was examined by HEGIS discipline divisions. The employees' status was examined with respect to numbers of full-time and part-time employees, percentage part-time, and percentage with tenure. The implications of this information for…

These two volumes contain a complete report on an inventory of the state of educational research in Quebec, as surveyed in 1968-1969. Four different populations--deans, professors of education, graduate students in education, and educational researchers other than faculties of education--were studied, using a particular instrument designed for the…

As challenges to jail administration mount, higher education institutions can be an important and relatively inexpensive resource, by providing expertise in various subjects of interest to jail administrators, by gathering and analyzing information, by providing interns and volunteers, by helping research and evaluate jail programs, and by…

The transfer of technology from U.S. research universities in cooperation with the private sector is addressed in proceedings of a National Council of University Research Administrators conference. The first discussion session, "New Technology from University Research and Development (R&D)," examines the university research…

Institutional research that focuses on professional development is addressed in 35 papers from the 1982 meeting of the North East Association for Institutional Research. Titles and authors include the following: "Modeling College Student Adjustment and Retention for the Individual Institution" (Norman D. Aitken); "The Development…

Research environments of four leading universities were studied: University of California at Berkeley (UC-Berkeley), Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Stanford University. Attention was directed to organizational responses for encouraging collaboration in research at these leading universities, as well as to…

The results of a survey of 65 colleges of education on how they evaluated the productivity of their faculty are reported. Most of the responding institutions agreed with a definition of productivity as the sum of all activities which are related either directly or indirectly to professional duties, responsibilities, and interests. The 21 doctoral…

Background: After the failure of several important methods comparison studies in the 1960s, the influence of interaction analysis stimulated interest in foreign language classroom processes. More careful observational studies gradually revealed which process variables were of interest. Also, there has been much research on teacher talk, with a…

The integrity of research conducted in academic institutions should not be compromised in the conflict between the scientific community, public agencies, and legislators over oversight of federally funded projects. Integrity can be protected through prevention of abuse in researcher recruitment and training and through partnership between faculty…

Introduction: The paper is based on the study of library users in Slovakia as part of a larger research project on the use of information. Method: A large-scale questionnaire survey was conducted in 2002 in sixteen academic and research libraries with 793 subjects, especially students and educators. Analysis: The data were analysed with the use of…