As university professors we sought to disrupt the practice of giving our students the actions we felt they should imitate in their teaching practice. Instead, we sought to actively engage teachers in the creation of workable solutions to real-life problems. We accomplished this by conducting a participatory action research project. This paper…

Social construction of understanding has long been a significant underlying principle of learning and teaching, and while there are many models for the design of online activities to promote this, there are considerably fewer models for the facilitation of such dialogue. This paper examines some of these facilitation models from the point of view…

Survey information from management faculty (n=182) found little, if any, link between excellence in teaching performance and research activity. (JOW)

In collaboration with distinguished scholars and National Institute on Aging (NIA) staff, we designed, implemented, and evaluated a research training program in aging for psychology faculty from 4-year colleges. The goal of the program was to build and sustain a community of college faculty committed to conducting aging research, incorporating…

From the program faculty of St. Scholastica's National Institute on Aging Summer Institute on the Psychology of Aging, 7 members responded to a series of questions posed to them in individual telephone interviews. They represented a wide range of disciplinary interests and institutions. Their motivation for participation, their advice for both…

To complement traditional learning activities in a masters-level research methodology course, social work students worked on a formal research project which involved: designing the study, constructing measures, selecting a sampling strategy, collecting data, reducing and analyzing data, and finally interpreting and communicating the results. The…

Whether there is positive correlation between type of college instruction and student attitudes and achievement was examined. College students will make greater achievement gains if taught by indirect rathen than direct teaching styles and amount of indirect teaching is not sufficient factor for predicting attitude of college students toward…

Questions regarding changing professorial values are examined from three sources and methodologies--historical, sociological, and humanistic. Each approach contributes to an answer to the issue although each method has limitations. (The historical record is spotty. Socioeconomic status and religious background data are cross-sectional, not…

Reports on a survey of large public universities done to determine the guidelines such universities use in granting institutional support of small research projects. (IRT)

Many minority scholars have sought answers and skills that directly translate into meaningful resolution to the social injustice and inequality facing their communities. Yet it is these research areas that help keep them in the role of second-class academic citizens. (MLW)

A study of faculty attitudes toward academic advising reveals differing views of the need for advising, its professional relevance, and student-faculty involvement. (Author)

Introduction: This study reports the application of Ellis's behavioural model to the information seeking behaviour of Jewish studies scholars. Method: A qualitative study in which twenty-five scholars from four universities in Israel were interviewed using a semi-structured interview guide in which participants were encouraged to talk about…

HOW TO MOBILIZE STATE COLLEGE FACULTY RESOURCES TO STUDY THE MEANS FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF INSTRUCTION WAS THE CONCERN OF THIS PROJECT. THE PROJECT WAS A 2-DAY CONFERENCE ON LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION, HELD IN JANUARY 1965 WHICH WAS FOLLOWED IN APRIL, 1965, BY A MEETING OF A SMALL NUMBER OF THE CONFERENCE DELEGATES TO DEVELOP FURTHER THE…

The purpose of this project was to stimulate the incidence and develop the quality of educational research by faculty members in higher education institutions in Arkansas through individual small project grants, intensive institutional educational research development programs, and project development grants. Activities were grouped into 4 areas.…

Academic unionism emerged during the 1960's for a variety of reasons. Higher education faculty are organizing for collective bargaining for professional advancement. To what factors are individual faculty members' attitudes toward collective bargaining attributable? This study's findings supported hypothesized relationships between sets of…