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Adams, Lisa Ann Hoffman – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A leadership shortage has been documented across professions. Emotional intelligence skills, traits, and abilities have received much attention as a tool for business leaders in the past decade as a way to increase leadership skill, meet organizational goals, and enhance profits. The study sought to determine whether public school superintendents…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Questionnaires, Leadership Qualities, Public Schools
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Corwyn, Robert F.; Bradley, Robert H. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2016
Relations between paternal autonomy support and four aspects of adolescent social competence and responsibility at age 16 were examined using data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. With controls on maternal autonomy support, significant relations were observed between paternal autonomy support and three of the four…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Fathers, Sons, Personal Autonomy
Wammack, Deborah Langston – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate the frequency of the best teaching practices (Small Group, Reading as Thinking, Representing to Learn, Classroom Workshop, Authentic Experiences, Reflective Assessment, and Integrative Units) and compare the difference between the structures and demographic variables (program size, student-teacher…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Teaching Methods, Nontraditional Education, Surveys
Sales, M. Vance; Taylor, Joseph C. – 1973
The research design for this study arose out of a similar national study conducted by the American Association of School Administrators (see ED 056 368). Analysis of the data reveals that the Arkansas superintendent is slightly younger and that he enters the profession earlier than the average American school superintendent. In addition, he has…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Education, Administrator Qualifications
ANDREW, DEAN C.; STROUP, FRANCIS – 1959
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY WERE TO DETERMINE THE NUMBER OF COLLEGE-ABILITY HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS IN ARKANSAS WHO DO NOT CONTINUE THEIR EDUCATION, AND TO WHAT EXTENT RURAL-URBAN BACKGROUNDS, SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS, AND INDIVIDUAL MOTIVATIONS ARE RELATED TO STUDENTS' EDUCATIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL PLANS. THE STUDENTS GRADUATING IN 1957 WHO ACHIEVED A…
Descriptors: College Attendance, College Planning, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Evaluation
Boosey, Anne; And Others – 1976
Twenty-three Vietnamese families in Little Rock and 12 in Grannis were interviewed to investigate and compare the variables associated with the acculturation of rural and urban refugees. Since the majority of the families in Grannis did not speak English, three Vietnamese interpreters assisted with the interviews. Information was obtained on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Case Studies